National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru

#PublicTalk
Prof Daniel Bolnick will be giving a talk titled "How Can Evolutionary Biology Help Public Health and Medicine?"

📆 Friday, 06 March 2026
⌚ 4:00 PM
📍 National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru

Open to All!

👇 Check out the poster for more details

Happening This Friday!
"How can Evolutionary Biology Help Public Health and Medicine?" by Prof Daniel Bolnick

This #PublicTalk is Open to all! Do Join!

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#AwardHighlight
🥇Congratulations to Swarnadip Ghosh from Dr Soumyashree Das's lab on winning the Best Poster Award at the Vascular Biology Symposium 2026!

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#AwardHighlight
🌟Congratulations to Sreepadmanabh from @tapomoy89.bsky.social'lab on receiving the Future Investigator Travel award by @apsdsoft.bsky.social to support a talk at the Global Physics Summit 2026!

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#ApplicationsOpen
13th Undergraduate Lecture Series

Theme: Dynamical Biology- how processes operate at different scales

📆 Sundays, 03 May - 28 June 2026
📍 NCBS, Bengaluru

🔗Application Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

⌛Deadline: 23 March 2026

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#ApplicationsOpen
13th Undergraduate Lecture Series

Theme: Dynamical Biology- how processes operate at different scales

📆 Sundays, 03 May - 28 June 2026
📍 NCBS, Bengaluru

🔗Application Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

⌛Deadline: 23 March 2026

#LatestStudy by Charuhansini and team from
@stpalli.bsky.social's lab shows yeast can rapidly evolve freeze–thaw tolerance via a quiescence-like shift, boosting survival from ~2% to ~70%, providing new insights into microbial survival under extreme conditions.
🔗 elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Surviving in the mountains: temperature and elevation have contrasting physiological effects and no effect on morphology of the hoverfly Eristalis tenax in the Himalayas - Journal of Comparative Physi... Journal of Comparative Physiology B - Insect populations are experiencing a global decline due to a variety of human-linked environmental changes. Among these changes, how insects’ physiology...

#LatestStudy
Through some of the first field experiments in high-altitude Himalayas, Gauri Gharpure & team from Dr Shannon Olson's
lab, show contrasting impact of elevation & temperature on the physiology of generalist pollinating hoverfly Eristalis tenax.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Glad to share our latest work that came out recently. We dive into the mechanisms of how Transcription Factors (TFs) like the nuclear receptor, ERα navigate the genome to find their targets.

Exited to share Current Opinion review on how chromatin hubs involving multiple enhancers and promoters are formed, and their potential roles in gene regulation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#LatestStudy by Faseela from @sabarinathan.bsky.social
@dimplenotani.bsky.social's lab shows CTCF/cohesin co-binding during replication triggers DNA damage; in DNA damage response(DDR)-defective tumors this may drive genomic instability.
🔗https://bit.ly/4kTKBPL
@tifr.res.in @cp-iscience.bsky.social

Soumyashree Das

Transitions in development – an interview with Soumyashree Das

We caught up with Soumyashree from @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social to talk about her research on vascular development and regeneration, and her experience establishing a new lab under pandemic conditions: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Loss of function of chromatin remodeler OsCLSY4 leads to RdDM-mediated mis-expression of endosperm-specific genes affecting grain qualities Author summary The endosperm performs a unique physiological function similar to that of mammalian placenta, providing nourishment to the developing plant embryo and acting as a signaling hub. This ti...

#LatestStudy led by @avikkumarpal.bsky.social from Prof.@shivaprasadpv.bsky.social's lab highlights the critical role of OsCLSY4 in seed development and provides a foundation for engineering improved grain traits in rice.
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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Only a few spots left, hurry!!
Deadline : 28th February 2026
For registration and schedule details : www.mooseneuro.org/news/meetmoo...
#opensource #webinar #neuroscience #compneuro

#ResearchExplained
A recent study at NCBS explores how landscape changes are quietly rewriting the rules of coexistence among meso-carnivores in the Kachchh region of western India.

Read here: bit.ly/4qXvWVk

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#PhDone! 🎓 Congratulations Dr. Sulu Mohan! 🎉

Sulu Mohan from @bhalla-lab.bsky.social successfully defended her thesis recently.

👇🧵Check out the thread below to learn about her work on understanding heterogeneity and variability in short-term synaptic plasticity🧠
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#WorkshopAlert
2nd Workshop on Transmission Electron Microscopy: Exploring TEM and Cryo-TEM Techniques

📅 7-9 April 2026
📍 BLiSC, Bengaluru

🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4oQcr__NlVcy--yc4zbMa9Qseo_VPZdsEWYTYIct2Mb6foA/viewform

Application Deadline extended to: 02 March 2026

#PublicTalk
Prof Daniel Bolnick will be giving a talk titled "How Can Evolutionary Biology Help Public Health and Medicine?"

📆 Friday, 06 March 2026
⌚ 4:00 PM
📍 National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru

Open to All!

👇 Check out the poster for more details

Registration includes accommodation, meals, local transport, and the gala dinner.
Limited fee waivers available for students and postdocs, with additional waivers for Bengaluru-based participants.
🌐: meetings.embo.org/event/26-smc...

#EMBOThreadsOfLife
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The #EMBOThreadsOfLife meeting brings together researchers across scales, from molecular and structural studies to cellular, genomic, and theoretical approaches, to explore how SMC complexes shape chromosome biology across evolution.
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#EMBOWorkshop
Registrations for the EMBO Workshop: Threads of life: SMC complexes in chromosome structure and dynamics are now Open!
🗓️ 13-18 December 2026
📍NCBS, India
🌐For registration & more details, visit website: meetings.embo.org/event/26-smc...
#EMBOThreadsOfLife @embo.org

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📢Hiring alert

Job opening @cbmncbs.bsky.social

Position - Project Associate

Details - lnkd.in/g9pfcbM5

Apply by March 10, 2026

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#PhD_Admissions
@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social is now accepting applications for its PhD program through National Level Exams
👇Check out the poster for details on eligibility criteria.

🌐Link to application webpage: www.ncbs.res.in/academic/adm...

⏲️Deadline: 05 April 2026, 5:00 PM, IST

#ApplyNow

De novo emergence of metabolically active protocells A continuous route from a disordered soup of simple chemical feedstocks to a functional protocell -- a compartment that metabolizes, grows, and propagates -- remains elusive. Here, we show that a homo...

We're enormously excited to share this work.
Comments, thoughts, and provocations very welcome!

arxiv.org/abs/2601.11013

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@simonsfoundation.org

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International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Part 1 YouTube video by NCBS Communications

🧑‍🔬For International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked some of our early-career researchers what it means to them, to be a woman in STEM.
👇Check out what they have to say!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbA...

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#InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience

Thank you, Prof. Vikram Patel for sharing your insights on the status of mental health around the world, on the Baatein platform of @cbmncbs

We must encourage to ask more often - why it matters to me ?

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@padinjatr.bsky.social

📣Meet MOOSE!!!
Are you curious about neuroscience and modelling neurons?
Come join us!
Know about MOOSE and its GUI, Jardesigner!

Come | Learn | Connect with MOOSE Team

#compneuro #opensource #neuroscience #webinar #communityevent

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