Dr Anjana Badrinarayanan, Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Official Announcement: https://www.ias.ac.in/application/Fellows_2025.pdf

Arpitha Jayanth (Professor Mahesh Sankaran's Lab) and Sakshi Shigvan (Dr Dimple Notani's Lab), graduate students at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru have been selected this year for t

Dr Soumyashree Das, faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, has been elected to the EMBO Global Investigator's Network.

Dr Tapomoy Bhattacharjee, faculty member at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, has been el

Dr. Padubidri V. Shivaprasad, Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru is the Food Security Winner for Tata Transformation Prize 2025. The prize entails a research grant of INR 2 crores (approximately USD 228,000) to advance their research and support real-world implementation.

We are delighted to share that Dr. Anjana Badrinarayanan, faculty member at NCBS–TIFR, has been awarded the Infosys Prize 2025 in Life Sciences.

The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), both centres of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), have signed an agreement to jointly establish a Centre for Artificial Learning and Intelligence for Biological Research and Education (CALIBRE).

Dr Deepa Agashe, Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bengaluru, is the recipient of the Rashtriya Vigyan Yuva Puraskar 2025, conferred by the Government of India.

Link to the Announcement: https://awards.gov.in/

Link to Dr Deepa Agashe's lab webpage: https://adaptationlab.in/

Bacteria have evolved many clever ways to take over human cells during infection.

A walk through a forest can be a bewildering experience. The whole forest appears to be running wild with insects of varied colours, hues and behaviours. Many of these traits appear to be deployed in defense against visually-hunting predators such as birds and lizards. Evolutionary biologists have long puzzled over the factors that determine when animals evolve to deter predators either through striking visual displays or by hiding in plain sight (i.e., camouflage).