Excited to do some chemistry at NCBS! Do consider joining us!

You can also do synthetic organic chemistry or chemical biology to make reagents for biology at NCBS! Do consider the NCBS PhD program if you are interested in pursuing chemistry based problems for your PhD. My lab will hire PhD students this term and the next term as well.

Ligand-directed labeling for microglia labeling in living systems.

📢 Course Announcement! Applications are now open for the 15th Bangalore Microscopy Course! 📅 14-21 September 2025 ⌛ Application Deadline: 30th April 2025 📍 NCBS, Bengaluru 📝 Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 🌐 For more details, visit: ncbs.res.in/BangaloreMicro…

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Ever wondered how organs take shape? Join us to find out! The Organ Mechanobiology Lab National Centre for Biological Sciences is recruiting Graduate Trainees. Perfect for final-year students curious about tissue mechanics, development & cell biology. Check out the ad below 👇 Please RT! Thanks 🙏

Delighted to share this. A novel H4 variant that modulates chromatin to mediate salt stress response. This mammoth work was driven to perfection by Vivek Hari Sundar, a wonderful PhD student who also taught me. We report its CryoEM structure & unusual chemistry National Centre for Biological Sciences 1/3

#CampusVisit Students of Bangalore International School visited NCBS last week They started with an activity to learn critical thinking. Dr. Pratik Kumar spoke about life as a scientist, & Aksha Chowdhary, MSc Wildlife alum, shared her journey. They also visited Dr Raj Ladher's lab

Watching our home-brewed PI3P and PI4P vesicle probes move through neurons feels like blowing bubbles as a kid: fleeting, a little magical. I’m a Doubting Thomas at heart. That’s why I’ve spent so much time learning to image and building probes. I need to see it to believe it.

It was lovely to interact with these high school students

We are excited to welcome our 1st cohort of PRISM fellows! The fellowship, in collaboration with Project EduAccess is a 2-month, residential research programme designed to nurture next generation of life science researchers from underrepresented & marginalised backgrounds in India.

Great experience presenting my independent research at the NOST-Early Career Researcher Meeting IISER Bhopal before the luminaries of Indian organic chemistry community. Big bonus was catching up with Pratik Kumar who I knew since a fruitful summer internship during college days!

It was great to connect with the early career organic chemists across the India. Thanks to Vishal Rai for organizing it beautifully.

Our Lab IIT Kharagpur🇮🇳 is hiring Institute Postdoc! If you have experience in cell culture and interest in chem bio, pls contact at [email protected] with CV and research summary. Our lab website: sites.google.com/view/shubhendu… Apply here 👇 erp.iitkgp.ac.in/Jobs/auth/pdfa… Deadline: 31 July

(1/2) We are thrilled to share that our faculty member, Anusha Shankar, has been awarded the Maxwell-Hanrahan Foundation Award in Field Biology! She is exploring how animals adapt to environmental variability, particularly those capable of lowering their body temperature and...

1/ In my BIO101 class, I taught water, the solvent of life, unusual properties of which arise due to hydrogen bonding between deceptively simple water molecules. Our existence is inseparably bound up with hydrogen bonding. Want to know the history of H-bonding? Read the thread.👇

National Geographic story by Prasenjeet Yadav on black tigers shows what it takes to rescue isolated populations. Uma Ramakrishnan & Vinay Sagar’s research @ncbsbangalore guiding conservation & excellent storytelling shows how science can shape future of wildlife in India. nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

Congratulations to Mousumi Baruah for being awarded the NPDF by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation. She will make a chemical toolkit for organelle specific manipulation of ROS in our lab National Centre for Biological Sciences. Very proud of her, and credit also goes to her doctoral work w/ Animesh Samanta Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR

#AwardHighlight Mousumi Baruah, post-doctoral researcher from Dr Pratik Kumar's lab, is the recipient of the National Post-doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) by Anusandhan National Research Foundation Congratulations!🎉 Pratik Kumar National Centre for Biological Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Prof. Pratik Kumar talked on “Multifunctional fluorescent ligands for intracellular labeling” at Global Scientific Conference — designing smart probes that cross membranes and tag proteins. #ChemicalBiology #FluorescentProbes #Imaging National Centre for Biological Sciences IIT Bombay Ruchi Anand Anindya Datta