Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Events

30-09-2024  Monday

25Wed

MSFDA-HBCSE Programme for UG Science Teachers

Date: 25 to 30 September, 2024
Time: 09:30 - 17:30

Venue: NIUS Building Lecture Hall - G4

Coordinator: Dean's Office

  https://badal.hbcse.tifr.res.in/index.php/s/5DPrZ7qpS6Tas6E

MSFDA-HBCSE Programme for UG Science Teachers
     
  • Workshop/Camp for Teachers

30Mon

Twenty-Third V. G. Kulkarni Memorial Lecture

Date: 30 September, 2024
Time: 15:30 - 16:30

Venue: V. G. Kulkarni Memorial Auditorium

Coordinator: Dean's Office

  https://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/outreach/vgk-memorial-lectures/2024/2024

Speaker:

Prof. Vidita A. Vaidya

Chairperson, Department of Biological Sciences,

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Topic:

Imprints of Early Life History - How the Brain Keeps Score

Abstract of the talk:

Early adversity has a major impact on brain development and later cognitive functioning. It is also a common risk factor for neuropsychiatric and neuodegenerative disorders. Environment leaves its imprints on the body and brain at a molecular, epigenetic, cellular, circuit and behavioral level. Understanding these imprints provides tools on how to ameliorate or reverse some of the scars of early trauma. In my talk I will discuss research that has addressed these questions from a neuroscience perspective.

About the speaker:

Vidita Vaidya is a Senior Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Biological Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. She received her undergraduate training in Life Science and Biochemistry at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai. She obtained her doctoral degree in Neuroscience at Yale University with the late Professor Ronald Duman, and after postdoctoral fellowships at the Karolinska Institute and Oxford University she returned to a faculty position at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 2000. She is a fellow of all three Indian Science academies. She received the National Bioscientist Award in 2012, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Medical Sciences in 2015, and the Infosys Prize for Life Sciences in 2022. She was awarded the Nature Award for Excellence in Mentorship in India in 2019. Her research group is interested in understanding the neurocircuitry of emotion, its modulation by life experience and the alterations in emotional neurocircuitry that underlie complex psychiatric disorders like depression. Her team is also interested in understanding the actions of serotonergic psychedelics at the molecular, cellular, neurocircuit and behavioral level. She is committed to enhancing equity, diversity and inclusion in academia

     
  • Lecture/Seminar/Talk