Genuinely caring about students should be a non-negotiable qualification for a career in academia. Full stop. No amount of research achievement or creativity can substitute for caring about the professional development and well-being of those we teach and mentor.

Happy to share this work from the lab DBT-THSTI. Led by Neelam, Gopinath Chattopadhyay, Niranjana Sri S, Ph.D.. Here, we have studied the physiological roles and cross talk of VapBC35 TA systems from M. tuberculosis. Thanks to DBT/WT India Alliance for their funding rdcu.be/ebzZO