The National Centre for Biological Sciences is delighted to have Amey Redkar, the newest faculty member join the Centre. Amey’s research focuses on genetic and cellular mechanisms of plant-microbial interactions, specifically dissecting molecular dialogues between plant roots and microbes that drive the disease outcomes.

The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Research & Training Organizations of Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEFCC), GoI- Indian Council of Forestry and Research and Education (ICFRE), Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGFNA), Central Academy for State Forestry Service (CASFOS) and Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB), as a step towards building partnership for research and education on biodiversity and conservation.

The Obaid Siddiqi Chair has been set up at the intersection of the practice of science, its history and culture and is awarded to eminent scholars whose work spans these disciplines. Named after Obaid Siddiqi, the founder of the Molecular Biology Unit at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and whose vision led to the development of NCBS, the Chair is supported by TNQ Technologies.

The winds of change are blowing at TIFR-NCBS. Today, on 21st February 2023, Satyajit (Jitu) Mayor passes the baton to our new director, LS Shashidhara. The NCBS community expresses its heartfelt gratitude to Prof. Mayor, under whose leadership the size and diversity of science at NCBS have grown multifold!

National Centre for Biological Sciences congratulates Vinothkumar Kutti Ragunath for being selected as a member to join the EMBO Global Investigator Network ! 

Congratulations!

Shivaprasad is a plant biologist and faculty at TIFR-NCBS. He is interested in understanding epigenetic modifications that result in gene silencing involving small RNAs in plants. His lab is involved in generating newer tools for crop improvement via a multi-disciplinary approach.

We congratulate Prof. P V Shivaprasad for getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)!

A synergy of linguistics & scientific research

​​We are excited to share that Prof. Krushnamegh Kunte has been honoured with the Prof. T. N.

The R. Bruce Merrifield Award was established in 1997 by an endowment from Rao Makineni. It acknowledges and awards the the lifetime achievement of a peptide scientist, whose work has acheived the highest level of scientific creativity.