26Mon
Coordinator: Prof. Anwesh Mazumdar
02Mon
Coordinator: Dr. Indrani Das Sen
https://badal.hbcse.tifr.res.in/index.php/s/9H3HggMXAybcMiN
The experimental camp for NIUS Chemistry Batch 20.2 students is scheduled from June 2-11, 2025. This is in collaboration with TIFR Mumbai. There will be 50 students for the camp.
The camp will focus on both basic and advanced instrumental techniques for investigating different chemical systems and materials of interest. Students will work on mini-projects followed by presentations. The sessions at HBCSE will be held in Olympiad Building G1, 107, G7 and Chemistry labs.
11Wed
Coordinator: Dr. Mayuri Rege
https://badal.hbcse.tifr.res.in/index.php/s/DXDH37X5P6a7ZYr#pdfviewer
The Biology Cell at HBCSE is organizing a public seminar and book-signing event by Prof. Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee from NCBS, Bengaluru. The details are given below.
Bacterial Adaptation: how life has come to be
Bacteria are the most numerous and genetically diverse forms of cellular life on earth. Their success owes much to genetic adptation and evolution, and in many organisms to physiological adaptation. How mechanisms underlying physiological adaptation evolve teaches us many things: how has life evolved and continues to evolve; how fundamental processes underlying all cellular life have evolved to deal with 'complexity' by enabling regulation; how regulation has evolved. My own lab's research has studied the latter: how have regulatory proteins evolved and how do they continue to evolve in the face of new challenges. Studying this underlies concepts on protein sequence and organism evolution to undergraduate students, something that becomes increasingly important in an age where emphasis in many departments of biology and biotechnology appears to be laid disproportionately on 'keyword' science.
Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee is a researcher and Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS),TIFR in Bengaluru. His lab is interested in fundamental aspects of the function and evolution of bacterial genomes and gene regulatory networks. His career in the sciences started off with a Bachelors of Technology at Anna University in Chennai. He then pursued research as an intern, a PhD student and then briefly a postdoc with Nicholas Luscombe at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK (and St John’s College and Girton College, University of Cambridge). He has been with NCBS since December 2010, his research here funded over the years by the Department of Atomic Energy core support to TIFR and NCBS, DBT, DST and SERB, CEFIPRA and DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance. Beyond science, he enjoys making music, painting watercolour landscapes and reading classic crime and fantasy fiction and popular history.