What sets humans apart from the primates? The genes between the two are very similar. Can the non-coding regions of genes answer the Q? Dr.G.Umapathy & other scientists across the world have found the leads. Somdatta Karak
writes for IndiaBioscience.org.
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CCMB and Blockchain For Impact (BFI) signed an MoU today to undertake research in biomedical science together. This aims to accelerate research discoveries translating into real-world solutions.
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See what came out of our workshop with ipsa jain (she/her). We will take you on a colorful and profound journey. Enjoy on StoryWeaver!
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Many congratulations to Yogita Kapoor for the MITACS Graduate Research Award. This will let her do part of her PhD work at VIDO-InterVac, Canada. She will spend her summer doing live-cell imaging to study the cell division of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Summer holidays are around the corner, and so is the Futuristic Friday talk series. Every Friday in April, you will meet experts online who are working with big data in biology and addressing Qs of healthcare.
The first talk is on 5th April by Arvind Rao, University of Michigan.
Register soon!

CCMB welcomes the Ambassador of France to India, H. E. Mr Thierry Mathou Thierry Mathou and delegates from the French embassy to further the discussions on CSIR-Pasteur collaboration. CSIR, India French Embassy in India 🇫🇷🇪🇺

Many congratulations to Yogita Kapoor for getting the Keystone Travel Grant and becoming one of the 25 poster participants to give a talk at the Keystone Symposium on Tuberculosis: The Host-Pathogen Interface.
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Why is it that we don't yet have vaccines for many infectious diseases? Apart from will needed for it, the biology behind it can also be complex. Srinivas Reddy talks of the malarial vaccine development with the backdrop of the complexity of Plasmodium.
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Our PhD applications are now open. From what makes living populations to the atomic details of biomolecules, CCMB offers lab working in biology across scales.
Check details here: ccmb.res.in/Academics/PhD-…
Apply by Mar 31!
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Closing our alumni talks this year with Rajesh Ramachandran from IISER Mohali taking us through his times at CCMB fishing the carps for his PhD studies to now study tissue regeneration in zebrafish and axolotl.
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Time to tune into what our alumni journeys have been like. This year at the Founder's Day we had Subhashini Sadasivam talk of her journey from doing lab science to setting up her own entrepreneurial venture in #genomics .
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Enjoy your weekend evening with Sreelakshmy Govardhanan's performance at CCMB during the Founder's Day, last month. Thanks to SPIC MACAY HYD for coordinating it.
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(1/n) The 46th Indian Biophysical Society Meeting, jointly organised by TIFR Hyderabad & Univ of Hyderabad, began with three plenary talks about
- 'checkpoints' in the cell which prevent D-amino acids from integrating into protein chains (Rajan Sankaranarayanan, CCMB),

Listen to Ashish Lele, Director CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, the expert himself on the future of hydrogen fuel, especially in the Indian context.
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How are we positioned in synthetic biology? Join koushickvenkatesh in a quick run through of the progresses in recombinant DNA technologies.
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Thermo Fisher just inaugurated a brand new Center for Innovation at AIC-CCMB designed to empower startups by providing them with access to high-end imaging tools, a critical resource for early-stage ventures.

#Entrepreneurship #startups

Photosynthesis is not new to you. But Debadutta Patra will take you through the details of process, down to the details of the electrons. And classical mechanics fails to explain it all, and hence, come in quantum mechanics.
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