Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) has a longstanding tradition of honouring staff and students annually for their exemplary service and work during the Foundation Day celebrations, which is held on 30th October in TIFR, Mumbai. On this occasion, staff members who have served for 25 years at TIFR institutions are honoured. This time, three members of the NCBS family- Prof. R. Sowdhamini, Senior Professor, Mr. Prashanthmurthy, Administrative Officer-Hospitality Services and Mr. Ravindra Munshi, Engineer-Quality Control, were honored for their services.

The BLiSC Campus communication office and the Photography Club held a photography competition on World Environment Day 2022. Here are the top 4 finalists in each category. 

(The images are also displayed above - hover your mouse to see their title and photographer names)

THEME: Shades of life

Prof Mamannamana Vijayan sadly passed away on 24 April 2022. He was well known in macromolecular crystallography both within India and internationally, and has supported bioinformatics and drug design efforts within the country.

International Day of Women in Science 2022

The Bangalore Life Sciences Cluster (BLiSC), comprising of NCBS Bangalore, inStem and C-CAMP, has recently inducted an Early Career Researchers Council (ECRC), in a bid to involve its student, JRF and postdoc communities more actively in the day-to-day functioning of the campus.

The National Centre for Biological Sciences is delighted to welcome Swadhin Chandra Jana, who joins the NCBS as its newest faculty member.

Swadhin is a cell and developmental biologist fascinated with the molecular mechanisms underlying the assembly, functioning and homeostasis of macromolecular complexes and cellular organelles. He joins the NCBS from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC)- Portugal (PT), where he holds a Principal Investigator position (on a Research Grant funded by Fundacao Ciência e Tecnologia-PT), since autumn 2018.

The National Centre for Biological Sciences is delighted to welcome Abhishek Bhattacharya, who joins the NCBS as its newest faculty member.

Abhishek is interested in understanding the fundamental molecular principles that control the establishment and functioning of the electrical synapse connectome, a conserved and functionally important, yet understudied feature of the nervous system.

The National Centre for Biological Sciences is delighted to welcome Archishman Raju, who joins the NCBS as its newest faculty member.

Archishman's research is in the theoretical modelling of biological systems. He is currently interested in modeling cell fate specification and finding general models for fitting experiments in developmental biology. He is also interested in how mathematical theories of evolution are changed by including development.

The National Centre for Biological Sciences is delighted to welcome Soumyashree Das, who joins the NCBS as its newest faculty member.

Soumya’s work is in basic cardiovascular research. She seeks to answer some of the outstanding questions in the field of coronary heart disease-a leading cause of adult mortality in India and worldwide.