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NI-004NCBS: Publication Collection NI.004Archives at NCBS

National Centre for Biological Sciences - Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchBangalore, Karnataka 560065Business Number: +9180 6717 6010Business Number: +9180 6717 6011archives@ncbs.res.inURL:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-05-25 01:08:34 +0000.EnglishDescribing Archives: A Content Standard Archives at NCBS NCBS: Publication Collection National Centre for Biological Sciences (Bengaluru, India) NI.004 /repositories/2/resources/10 1 Linear Feet 1992-2017 Archives at NCBS, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore -560065 The collection is in good condition. The collection includes various publications from NCBS since its inception. The NCBS Annual Reports make up most of the collection. But it also includes calendars, diaries, and posters. NCBS Annual reports are dated from 1992 - 2017. (Also see NI-006, which includes TIFR Annual reports between 1945 – 1997). The NCBS annual reports provide an insight into the growth of an institution with the gradual addition of new faculty, lab facilities and equipment. The development of biology as a science can be traced in the advancements made by the faculty and their various collaborations with Institutions all over the world. The publications do not have a central office at NCBS. Historically, the annual reports have been managed by the administration, the academic office, the Research Development Office (RDO). Since 2018, NCBS has a Communications office and most of the publications will be managed by this unit. The Communication office advices on brand matters, use of campus logos and related material. It coordinates putting together and publication of Annual reports, calendars and other print material. The Communication office also puts out news and press releases of the latest research work of students and faculty of NCBS that gets published in peer-reviewed journals. The Communication office manages content for the NCBS and InStem Facebook pages and Twitter handles. English Access

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This collection was given to Archives at NCBS by the Research Development Office, N.Shantha and T.M.Sahadevan between 2016 and 2017 .

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The collection includes various publications from NCBS since its inception. The NCBS Annual Reports make up most of the collection. But it also includes calendars, diaries, and posters. NCBS Annual reports are dated from 1992 - 2017. (Also see NI-006, which includes TIFR Annual reports between 1945 – 1997). The NCBS annual reports provide an insight into the growth of an institution with the gradual addition of new faculty, lab facilities and equipment. The development of biology as a science can be traced in the advancements made by the faculty and their various collaborations with Institutions all over the world.

The publications do not have a central office at NCBS. Historically, the annual reports have been managed by the administration, the academic office, the Research Development Office (RDO). Since 2018, NCBS has a Communications office and most of the publications will be managed by this unit.

The Communication office advices on brand matters, use of campus logos and related material. It coordinates putting together and publication of Annual reports, calendars and other print material. The Communication office also puts out news and press releases of the latest research work of students and faculty of NCBS that gets published in peer-reviewed journals. The Communication office manages content for the NCBS and InStem Facebook pages and Twitter handles.

 National Centre for Biological Sciences (Bengaluru, India) NCBS annual reportsSeries 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/15651994-2017The Reports contain an overview into the numerous activities that are headed by the National Centre for Biological Sciences. They provide an insight into the growth of an Institution with the gradual addition of new faculty, lab facilities and equipment. The development of Biology as a science can be traced in the advancements made by the faculty and their various collaborations with Institutions all over the world. The names of contributing scientists have been recorded along with their accomplishments in the form of fellowships, awards and publications. The Reports begin with a note from the Director of the Institution which contains the highlights of the year and a brief description of their vision for the future. Most of the content of the Reports describe the ongoing research at the Institute. Every research group has a separate section dedicated to it. The later pages record the publications made, the talks and seminars given, and the honours received by the faculty at NCBS. The outreach programs and events catering to researchers at national and international levels are also made mention of. In order to summarize the events of the year (or years) as described in the reports, extracts from the Director's notes have been taken. The academic activities, journals publications and awards, have not been made mention of in the short description as they are numerous. By skimming through the rest of the material, information regarding the addition of new faculty, building of laboratories or new equipment, and prominent collaborations with other institutions have been made note of. Any mention of a change in the administration heads or any other key positions can also be found in the description. The title of the report, the time period it covers and a brief description of all the highlights during that time has been given. NCBS Annual reports are dated from 1992 - 2017. Please note: This is an active archive and will be updated with the publication of every new report.EnglishAnnual ReportsSubseries 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/1566EnglishBrochureNI004-1-1-1-1/repositories/2/archival_objects/15671994-199515 page brochure on the work at NCBS and the construction for the new campus. The first public brochure focused on NCBS.English11Report 1995NI004-1-1-1-2/repositories/2/archival_objects/16881992-1995The four research divisions consisted of Structural Biology, Neurogenetics, Molecular Neurobiology and Biology of Infectious diseases. A programme for access to recombinant DNA techniques for research on rice biology, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, was set up. Academic activities were from labs at the TIFR centre at IISc, Bangalore. Girija Muralidhar, Satyajit Mayor and M.G.Muralidhar joined the faculty. Research was being carried out to genetically engineer rice plants to survive against environmental stress. Initial work on this was to be done in collaboration with Richard Jefferson, CAMBIA, Canberra, Australia. Further investigation was to be done in collaboration with Marc Van Montagu, University of Gent, Belgium.English12Report 1995-97NI004-1-1-1-3/repositories/2/archival_objects/16891995-1997NCBS was stationed at the IISc campus. Funding for the new campus at the University of Agricultural Sciences was received from the Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Rockefeller Foundation, World Health Organisation, the Wellcome Trust and the Human Frontier Science Program. A meetings and workshops office was developed to bring scientists as teachers to the students at NCBS, other Indian students and those in the Asian-African region. K. VijayRaghavan took over from O. Siddiqi as director of the institute in February 1997. NCBS consisted of ten research groups. The campus at UAS was designed by Raj Rewal. There were four streams of study. A note on the history and conception of NCBS is penned down by O. Siddiqi. About four students per program were selected out of the 3000 M.Sc. and the 2000 Ph.D. applicants. Villoo Morawala-Patell and Anindya Sinha were visiting fellows. The Golden Jubilee lecture series were held in collaboration with TIFR, Mumbai and financial support from the international Brain Research Organisation. A symposium titled 'From Molecular Structure to Development and Function of Organisms' was held. The centre had Journal Clubs which met every week. Academic Interactions between NCBS and MAHE were initiated. An NCBS Trust was in the process of being set up under Gayatri Saberwal. The computer facilities were expanded enormously. An electronics workshop was established.English13Report 1997NI004-1-1-1-4/repositories/2/archival_objects/16901997Report 1997: 22 page report for scientific work at NCBSEnglish14Report 1997-99NI004-1-1-1-5/repositories/2/archival_objects/16911997-1999The NCBS laboratories were moved to the University of Agricultural Sciences Campus. Thirteen research groups were present in the four study streams that included Biology of Disease, Structural and Cell Biology, Molecular and systems neuroscience and Developmental Biology and Genetics. Each group had 1200-1500 sq ft laboratory space, three to four shared laboratories in the new building as opposed to the cramped quarters in IISc. High speed internet access was available. Michael Bate from Cambridge was the Sir Dorabji Tata professor. Veronica Rodrigues collaborated with groups at NCBS and NIMHANS. Madan Rao from the Raman Research Institute collaborated with Satyajit Mayor. Mahendra Rao of University of Utah collaborated with Mitradas Panicker. Manjari Mazumdar, Sumantra Chattarji, Apurva Sarin and R. Sowdhamini had joined the faculty. Gayatri Kalia was the Head of Administration and Finance. Annual Symposiums were initiated to promote academic interactions and collaborations. Four international scientific advisors were consulted for the growth of the institution. (Tsakonas from Harvard, Kensaku Mori from Riken Institute, Mel Simon from Caltech, Jim Spudich from Stanford). A note on the building of the new NCBS campus and another on the move out of IISc. A series of research oriented and teaching workshops were initiated, the first of which was 'Cell Cycle Regulation' co-organized with Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore and held in Mangalore. There existed a Cardiff University sandwich Program. A hybridoma facility was established. A rice transformation facility was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. An animal house was to be ready in late 1999. An art exhibition was conducted. A library was made in memory of Carolyn Ann D'Souza, a student who passed away in 1998. A day care centre was opened in 1998. Exhibitions by the photography club and cookathons were held.English15Annual report for 1999-2001NI004-1-1-1-6/repositories/2/archival_objects/16921999-2001Annual report for 1999-2001.English16Report 2001-03NI004-1-1-1-7/repositories/2/archival_objects/16932001-2003NCBS turned ten. An external review of NCBS was conducted by a team headed by P. Balaram from IISc. Q.S. Padiath joined the NCBS faculty. A new microscopy facility was added, which contained a multi-photon, an atomic force and a near field optical microscope. A DNA microarray scanner, PCR machine, a mass spectrometer and a cell sorter were added to the research facilities.English17Report 2004-05NI004-1-1-1-8/repositories/2/archival_objects/16942004-2005A young investigator program was initiated with the addition of three scientists. A collaboration with the Japanese ICORP programme was done with the aim of focusing on core programmes at NCBS. A clinical study on stem cells was done in collaboration with the Christian Medical College, Vellore. A stem cell resource and training centre was established with the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre. Mrinalini Puranik, Yamuna Ghosh, Uma Ramakrishnan and Sandhya Koushika joined to NCBS faculty. Azim Surani from Cambridge, UK (who assumed the position of Dorabji Tata Professor from Michael Bates), James Spudich from Stanford, USA and Francisco Barrantes from Argentina all worked as adjunct faculty at NCBS. The MSc Wildlife course was initiated by virtue of Ullas Karanth, Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in India. This was led by the course director, Ajith Kumar. A new biosafety facility was made functional. A new hostel, Mandara, was built.English18Report 2005-07 NI004-1-1-1-9/repositories/2/archival_objects/16952005-2007The Central Imaging and Flow Cytometry Facility (CIFF) was set up with over 90 trained users. It was built in association with Olympus Corporation, Japan, Carl ZEISS, Germany and Becton Dickinson, India. NCBS signed on with the RIKEN Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) at Kobe, Japan to obtain several transgenic and knockout mice. Deepak Nair, Sanjay Sane, Mukund Thattai and Mahesh Sankaran joined the NCBS facility. An integrative biology (iBio) program was in place in collaboration with Raman Research Institute. A student exchange program with NCBS/Harvard-MIT undergraduates was conducted. 25 independent research groups were present. Mayor was appointed chairman of Engineering and Maintenance Services Committee, Bhalla was the chairman of the Research Services Committee, with Jayant Udgaonkar as the Dean of Research Facilities. The Technology Centre for Nanobiosystems was created in 2005 with funds from the Department of Science and Technology, India. Jayant Udgaonkar was replaced as Dean by Satyajit Mayor in 2008. The 'Such Treasure and Rich Merchandize' exhibit curated by Annamma Spudich took place in early 2008.English19Report 2008-09NI004-1-1-1-10/repositories/2/archival_objects/16962008-2009The note from the director, K. VijayRaghavan, talks about the need to establish a different set of rules for NCBS as opposed to that of well established Indian Science institutions. Shachi Gosavi, Raghu Padinjat, Vatsala Thirumalai, Sandeep Krishna, Madhusudhan Venkadesan and Aswin Sai Seshasayee joined the institution. Sanjeev Jain from NIMHANS, Bangalore began collaborating with Mitradas Panicker in studying mental disorders. Several other collaborations with places like the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, Trinity College, Dublin, Cambridge, Stanford were carrying on as well. NCBS had been supporting Anna Spudich and Indu Menon in a program to translate ancient Ayurvedic texts. They were joined by P.P.Divakaran. The MSc Wildlife program obtained funding from the dissertation projects from The Department of Science and Technology. Other organisations like the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Art Ortenberg Foundation and Indo-US Science and Technology Forum also funded the program. NCBS had six research areas due to the addition of 'Theory and Modelling of Biological Systems' and 'Ecology and Evolution'. Apurva Sarin replaced Gaiti Hasan as the Academic head. Sympotein, a symposium series, was launched as a student initiative. A new sports facility was built. NCBS and InStem launched a company called C-CAMP, initially funded by the DBT. The centre had 28 independent research groups. A Biotwin transmission electron microscope was added to the Cytometry facility. The director penned down a few words in memory of Veronica Rodrigues who passed away in 2010.English110Report 2010-12NI004-1-1-1-11/repositories/2/archival_objects/16972010-2012NCBS celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2012 along with the 80th birthday of its founder, Obaid Siddiqi. The research team consisted of over 200 members and about 30 investigators. This report is formatted in a more compact form than the other reports. The animal house consisted of transgenic and wild type of mice, zebrafish, rats and xenopus. NCBS collaborated with the field stations Andaman and Nicobar Environment team (ANET) and Agumbe Rainforest Research Centre (ARRS) of the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. There were also field stations in high altitude rainforest areas of Sikkim as part of a BioResources and monitoring program with the DBT. An exhibition celebrating the life and work of Marie Curie was held in campus. The lecture hall contained a piano for the use amateurs and experts alike.English111Report 2012-2013NI004-1-1-1-12/repositories/2/archival_objects/16982012-2013The report continues in the format of the previous year. Obaid Siddiqi passes away in mid-2013. K. VijayRaghavan, the director of NCBS, went missing for a brief time before he was found by the Indo-Tibetan border police. VijayRaghavan was later appointed the Secretary of Department of Biotechnology. Madan Rao worked at NCBS as adjunct from Raman Research Institute. Sanjeev Jain from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore collaborated with M. Panicker. The other information contained in the report is the same as published in 2010-2012.English112Report 2012-14NI004-1-1-2-1/repositories/2/archival_objects/17072012-2014English21Description

A new programme in chemical ecology was begun in order to study venoms of native cone shell species. Shannon Olsson, P. Shivaprasad, Ranabir Das and Varada Sundaramurthy joined the NCBS research teams. Professor K.S. Krishnan passed away. Deepak Nair, Madhusudhan Venkadesan and Yamuna Krishnan left the facility. Apurva Sarin was appointed as the new dean at the InStem facility. A new research facility for InStem was in the process of being built. The Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines was started in 2013, partnered by NCBS and the Simons Foundation. The Centre was then made of five research groups. The science and society programme initiated a German Film Festival and an art history lecture series along with hosting its usual activities. Four science journalism workshops had been conducted since the first of its kind in 2011. NCBS had 32 groups and six research areas (htpp://www.ncbs.res.in/research_areas.htm). A new Centre for Brain Development and Repair was started within InStem through funds from the Wadhwani Foundation. Jayashree Ratnam joined the MSc Wildlife program as deputy course director. The Wildlife program was then in its sixth batch. The Southern Laboratories were constructed. They contained a supercomputer centre, a transgenic mouse facility and imaging and spectroscopy devices. A new housing complex was also built. Satyajit Mayor was appointed as the Director and Upinder Bhalla as the Dean of NCBS after the previous director, K. VijayRaghavan, was appointed the secretary of the Department of Biotechnology.

Report 2015-16NI004-1-1-2-2/repositories/2/archival_objects/17082015-2016A note by the director, Satyajit Mayor, talks about the Silver Jubilee celebrations held from 11 - 14th of January. An exhibition on the history of NCBS was also conducted by the Archives@NCBS project. A museum facility and collections facility were in the process of being created as part of the public outreach programme. A series of events and seminars were conducted through the year (https://www.ncbs.res.in/events). The 'Bengaluru Life Sciences Cluster', a cumulation of individual laboratories for biological research, was begun. A Big Data and Cryo EM facility were underway through this initiative. Endowment funds for the Institution were sought (Rs 25 crore for 25 years). The first Post Doc Symposium was held by the Postdoctoral Fellows Association in November hosting postdocs across India. The M.Sc. Wildlife programme began a series of workshops for students across the country. Several collaborations were done with Trinity College, Dublin. A longterm field research station was established at Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh in collaboration IISER, Pune. A CNC Vertical Milling machine was added to the mechanical workshops. The communications office team created social media channels for NCBS and InStem including the chemical ecology program, Simons Centre for Living Machines and accelerator program. A new program, 'Accelerating the application of stem cell technology in human disease', was started supported by the Department of Biotechnology and Pratiksha Trust. A theatre production, 'The Vaidya's Oath', was conducted as part of the Science and Society programme. The Simons Centre had five research groups addressing complex biological problems. Twenty-four facilities were to manage their own allocated budget. The slim report of the previous years was replaced by the usual dark-covered report.English22Report 2016-2017NI004-1-1-2-3/repositories/2/archival_objects/17092016-2017English23Report 2016-2017NI004-1-1-2-4/repositories/2/archival_objects/17102016-2017Nobel Laureate Randy Scheckman visited the campus during the 25th annual talks. Science and research administration, core facilities, substantial new laboratory space as well as an endowments cell had been put into place. Pawan Pahwa was made head of administration and finance. Collaboration with St. John's Medical College had been happening since 2008 in order to build extensive research laboratories, explore joint teaching programs with medical colleagues, and develop gene editing and NGS platforms. Multiple post-doctoral fellowship schemes with partner institutions around the world, including the University of Cambridge in the UK, the Max Planck Institute in Germany, Institut Curie in France, and RIKEN in Japan were initiated. Mukund Thattai was head of academic activities and Savita Ayyar was head of the RDO. TIIS (TIFR's Integrated Information Systems), an in-house developed integrated ERP software solution for TIFR, and an uploading of GFR-19A for extramural funds on Public Financial Management System (PFMS), a web-based online software application, were implemented. NCBS received corpus donations from the Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Infosys Foundation and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw. A learning session titled "IPI Thematic Session on Philanthropy for Science, Research and Innovation" was held for philanthropists. ACRC had 200 plus strains of mice, more than 12 lines of rats, 12 lines of zebrafish and Xenopus laevis. CIFF was equipped with 22 state-of-the-art high-end microscopes and 10 flow cytometers. Computing facility was equipped with three high performance clusters and one centralized data storage system. The fly facility maintained approximately 16,000 different fly strains and also generated transgenic flies. Genomics facility included both Sanger sequencing and a Next Generation Genomics Facility (NGGF). Microfluidics and microfabrication facility was equipped for Su8 photolithography and PDMS fabrication technologies. The Archives project was expanded in Oct 2016. On December 12th, 2016 the 2nd NCBS Alumni Meeting was hosted as part of the NCBS@25 celebrations. NCBS had six field stations all over India. A new wildlife field station was set up the past year on the former site of the High-Energy Gamma Ray Observatory (HEGRO) at Pachmarhi, in Madhya Pradesh. A collaborative and interdisciplinary programme in Chemical Ecology between institutions in the North Eastern Region (NER) and partners in Bangalore - NCBS, IISc and UAS - was initiated. A note talks about the retirement of Mitradas Panicker.English24Other Internal and External Publications from NCBSSeries 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/16992008-2017EnglishBrochuresSubseries 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/1700EnglishLiving and working at the NCBS: It expresses the life of every student in NCBS NI004-2-1-2-5/repositories/2/archival_objects/1711English25Bangalore Biosciences Cluster - Promotional material NI004-2-1-2-6/repositories/2/archival_objects/1712English26DirectoriesSubseries 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/1701EnglishTelephone directory of the staff and faculty at NCBS NI004-2-2-2-7/repositories/2/archival_objects/1713English27NCBS CalendarsSubseries 3/repositories/2/archival_objects/1702English2015NI004-2-3-2-8/repositories/2/archival_objects/1714English282016NI004-2-3-2-9/repositories/2/archival_objects/1715English292017NI004-2-3-2-10/repositories/2/archival_objects/1716English210NCBS DiariesSubseries 4/repositories/2/archival_objects/1703English2017NI004-2-4-2-11/repositories/2/archival_objects/1717English2112018/n/i004-2-4-3-1/repositories/2/archival_objects/1718English31Event ephemeraSubseries 5/repositories/2/archival_objects/1704EnglishNCBS 25th anniversary celebration (also see sub series 7) NI004-2-5-3-2/repositories/2/archival_objects/17192016English32NCBS Science Day NI004-2-5-3-3/repositories/2/archival_objects/17202016English33Such Treasure and Rich Merchandize NI004-2-5-3-4/repositories/2/archival_objects/17212008English34NCBS Annual TalksSubseries 6/repositories/2/archival_objects/1705EnglishAnnual Talk Brochure NI004-2-6-3-5/repositories/2/archival_objects/17222016English35Event posters and oversize ephemeraSubseries 7/repositories/2/archival_objects/1706EnglishMeeting: Second Young Investigators Meeting at Fort Resort, Kolkata NI004-2-7-2-1/repositories/2/archival_objects/17232009English21Colloquium: Organic Electronics: The Road Ahead NI004-2-7-2-2/repositories/2/archival_objects/17242010English22Conference: Control in Biological Systems NI004-2-7-2-3/repositories/2/archival_objects/17252013English23Conference: Action within Cells NI004-2-7-2-4/repositories/2/archival_objects/17262014English24Public Lecture: Corruption - a Blight on India? NI004-2-7-2-5/repositories/2/archival_objects/17272014English25Public Lecture: Intrinsic Dynamics of the Regional Community NI004-2-7-2-6/repositories/2/archival_objects/17282015English26Colloquium: Accelerating the Application of Stem Cell Technology in Human Disease NI004-2-7-2-7/repositories/2/archival_objects/17292016English27Public Lecture: Malaria - A Biomarker for National Development NI004-2-7-2-8/repositories/2/archival_objects/17302016English28Calendar - planner: NCBS 25th anniversary 2016 NI004-2-7-2-9/repositories/2/archival_objects/17312016English29Calendar - planner: NCBS 25th anniversary 2016. Design form 2 NI004-2-7-2-10/repositories/2/archival_objects/17322016English210Workshop: "Calling all Science Writers" - NCBS news solicitation NI004-2-7-2-11/repositories/2/archival_objects/1733English211