President Droupadi Murmu launched India’s first home-grown gene therapy for cancer at IIT Bombay. The President said that as CAR-T cell therapy is accessible and affordable it provides a new hope for the whole of humankind. This is a praiseworthy example of academia-industry

A piece of cloth containing the killer's DNA has been discovered from a crime scene. You have three suspects. Who did it? Duration: 3.5 hours Level: School students (Class IX-XII) To know more and apply for the workshop: sites.google.com/acads.iiserpun…

🚨 #genome sequences from the #Mpox outbreak in Kamitunga, DRC 🇨🇩 suggest a new emerging lineage of Clade I Data suggests recent emergence and sustained human-human transmission. Should the world be worried ? A short 🧵on the topic

We are looking for PhD students! Do you want to study evolution? Do microbes fascinate you? Do you want to use microbial genetics to understand evolution? If yes, please apply by 22 April: admissions.iisertvm.ac.in/phd/index.php/… Amitabh Joshi Sutirth Dey Vishu Guttal !! ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್ Karishma Kaushik, MBBS, MD, PhD, Mom Athale Lab: CyCelS 💉💉💉💉🚲🤿⛵

Announcing our next Mol Bio Workshop: Mysterious disease outbreaks in different parts of India. People are dying. Local hospitals have isolated the pathogens, but can't identify them. You are a scientist at a National Lab. Can you identify the pathogens and save lives? 1/3

Want to design a study using acoustics for wildlife conservation? Join us! We are excited to host a 'Primer to Conservation Acoustics' workshop IISER Tirupati : 14-21 July. Applications now open! More at skyisland.in/acousticsworks… Illus - WonderYonder cc V. V. Robin and Isha

🧵🧵 A short history of IISERs : Based on this book by Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay and N Sathyamurthy

IISER Tirupati launches One Year Professional Master's Programs in the following areas: (1) Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DS-AI), and (2) Biological Data Science (BioDS). To apply, click here: form.jotform.com/241773207275458. For more details, see attached flyer

SATHEE ICAR is here! Prepare for ICAR UG level entrance examinations with SATHEE. It has recorded lectures, live classes, AI-based analytics, and more, all at your fingertips. Visit icar.iitk.ac.in to get started! #EdTech #ICARPrep #EducationForAll

1/10 📢 IISER Pune is organizing a Molecular Biology Workshop for Underrepresented Groups in Education. All-expenses paid, 7-day workshop for Masters students from marginalized groups in Category Y and Z cities of India.

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

Registrations are open !!

We are excited to organise this EMBO Satellite Symposia on "Infection Biology at IISER Tirupati, India. Prolific speakers will share and discuss great science happening at the frontiers of infection biology! Pls join us, register and RT! IISER Tirupati EMBO CNRS 🌍

Journey into a land like no other, where nature's resilience is challenged by the ever-growing reach of human activity. This is a story of hope, fragility, and interconnected futures #Nilgiris #sharedwilderness youtu.be/D6mlelWVyiA?si…

I’m thrilled to announce that the application for the 2025 edition of our MIT Media Lab and global synthetic biology course, “How to Grow (Almost) Anything” is now open! Application link in thread 👇

After lots of testing, finally releasing magnetic beads for RNA purification

Here is the Course Flyer !

(1/n) Excited to announce FrugalScience 2025 (frugalscience.org). In its 5th year - Frugal science is a global community of creators engaged in bringing affordable solutions to the world. Anyone around the world can sign up (for free): form here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

I recently came across the timeless piece - ‘Why join an IISER?’ by Prof. N Sathyamurthy. It was a sincere and inspiring appeal to young, curious students from a mentor , encouraging them to pursue science fearlessly. Things have changed since then.

I am offering a 3-credit, 30-hour course on introductory evolutionary biology on the NPTEL platform. NPTEL courses are free for anyone, anywhere in the world, but require registrations, which is open as of now. onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc25_bt87/pre… Kindly spread the word.