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The dilemma of being alone.

I want to ask a question, what is loneliness? Does it mean being alone physically, mentally, when one is surrounded by people or is it a state of mind where the brain doesn’t want to rely on emotional thoughts. When I was young, I had this very same question in my mind but never felt it as intensely as I did after moving to Bangalore.. Read more 

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Introducing the New IBAB Social Media Team.

It’s a new academic year and brings with it new activities, opportunities and.. Read more

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A farewell note to the graduating class.

For most people, the lockdowns in the last few months have been something new. But I had a dry run last year, when I was at home for 3 months, generally in a wheelchair. It wasn’t so bad. We spend most of our time sitting anyway, so how does it matter if the chair has wheels? Yes, things are a little more clumsy and time-consuming.. Read more

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KMS lecture, Feb 2020.

On 1st February 2020, the seventh annual Kiran Mazumdar Shaw lecture was organised at IBAB. The speaker, Prof. Vamsi K. Mootha, an eminent scientist who has made fundamental contributions to mitochondrial research and systems biology delivered a lecture on “Mitochondria, Oxygen and Human Disease”.. Read more

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The Coriander Love.

My father loves to cook for others. He loves it so much that he is totally oblivious to the friction this has caused between him and his daughters. Dont get me wrong. We are a nice family when it comes to sharing. But sharing a
kitchen is not in our gene pool. In fact, it took two years after I started sharing my kitchen with my father before moments.. Read more

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Dr. Venki's "Adventures in the Ribosome", Jan, 2020

The TNQ Distinguished Lecture in the Life Sciences 2020, which had Nobel Laureate Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan as the speaker and guest-of-honour, was one that echoed the novelty of its predecessors. Speaking to a rapt audience at the J.N. Tata Auditorium, IISc, Bengaluru on Jan 18, 2020.. Read more

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The Eric Green Lecture, Jan 2020

In a hallowed hall of IISc, Dr. Eric Green (perhaps a tad overdressed for the warm winter of Bangalore) kick-started a series of lectures on the "Frontiers of Science" organised by the Indian Academy of Sciences..  Read more

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The IBAB family letter, Jan 2020.

In December 2018, I wrote a ‘family letter’ to the IBAB faculty. Family letters are common in the West, where someone in the family (the ‘writer’ in the family) sums up what their life has been like in the past year, including reporting on grand-mother’s.. Read more

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Atom: The Pandora’s box for scientists.

Trying to put pen onto paper and making sense out of it, while taking you through a walk of imagery, has been one of my biggest strengths. However, when it came to writing about atomic structure, I was quite shook-up at first.. Read more

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Could human cancer be contagious?

In a recent paper published in eLife, it was shown that cancer in geographically distinct marine mussel species is transmissible, making it a contagious disease. The authors reported that DNA from cancer cells of Chilean mussels is similar to.. Read more

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Exploring Bengaluru's Oldest Market.

In the last four years of my stay in this city, Bengaluru has never failed to surprise me with what it has to offer. Each destination is different from the other and there is always something here for everyone. And luckily for me, I have been able to see.. Read more

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Is this an institute?

Answer to this question is not easy but allow me to give you an idea. My reporting date was 14 July 2019, and I reached at about 7: 30 a.m. "It's so green”, I thought. Such beautiful flowers and so many of them, birds, animals, and.. Read more

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A whole new beginning.

Hey! I’m Chondamma, a student of batch MSc 09 at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), and this is where I will be sharing snippets of my life at the institute. This post is meant to share a little bit about the campus life.. Read more

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Hitchhiker’s guide to surviving a year at IBAB.

In the last four years of my stay in this city, Bengaluru has never failed to surprise me with what it has to offer. Each destination is different from the other and there is always something here for everyone.. Read more

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Learning Biology in an Electronic City.

Answer to this question is not easy but allow me to give you an idea. My reporting date was 14 July 2019, and I reached at about 7: 30 a.m. "It's so green”, I thought. Such beautiful flowers and so many of them, birds, animals, and butterflies.. Read more

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