For undergraduates in India, writing to scientists for potential research internships and never receiving a response or acknowledgment is a common experience. Divya writes about the harmful consequences of this and some ways to mitigate the same.
We are very happy to announce "Means to a Beginning", a free eBooklet that collates funding opportunities available for pursuing PhD and postdoctoral research in life sciences (1/n)
Download your free copy here -
#FundaySunday
Durga Mahor, a PDF at
@IISER_BERHAMPUR
, a mother, researcher, and art lover has drawn the mitochondria with 3D outliner and mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria is the powerhouse of cells. This illustration is inspired by the
#Warli
art form.
#SciART
,
#Mitochondria
Understanding
#bacterial
cell wall expansion offers new antibiotic targets🔬
A recent study led by Manjula Reddy at
@ccmb_csir
@nilanjan_som
reveals that fatty acid availability plays a crucial role in regulating peptidoglycan synthesis, shedding light on new avenues for
We are thrilled to announce Aprotim Mazumdar,
@KaushikLab
, Meghna Krishnadas, Rohit Naniwadekar &
@vvrobin
+their teams as the 1st IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants
#IOG
Awardees. Congratulations, we eagerly await the outreach efforts.
Stay tuned here to hear more from the awardees.
IndiaBioscience is pleased to announce
#YIM2021
, a life science networking meeting for young investigators and postdocs.
#YIM2021
will be completely online and feature panel discussions, mentor talks, breakout sessions & more 📅 17-19 March 2021👉Apply now!
On this International Day of Women & Girls in Science, we are extremely happy to launch 'Spoorthi': a resource booklet to celebrate Indian women in science. Please download your free copy here -
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScienceDay
📢We are thrilled to announce the “3rd IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants” to support
#young
#investigators
🇮🇳 for
#outreach
&
#SciComm
initiatives for broad societal benefits in
#lifesciences
🚀Application opens 1 Sept
🎯Deadline 30 Sept
👉Details
IndiaBioscience is pleased to announce
#YIM2022
, a networking & mentorship meeting for young investigators & postdocs in life sciences. The online YIM will include mentor talks,panel discussions ++🗓️3-5 May (YIM)& 9-12 May (PDF Satellite Meeting)
Apply now!
After being part of IndiaBioscience for over half a decade, Executive Director Smita Jain (
@SmitaJainIISc
) bids farewell to the organisation this month.
The wait is over! Drumroll, please!!🥁
🌟Awardees🌟 for 3rd IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants
#IOG
has been declared!! Congratulations, we eagerly await the outreach efforts.
We thank everyone who applied. Keep up your passion for science outreach.
⚡️WE HAVE A NEW LEADER!
We are immensely proud to announce that our new Executive Director is our very own
@ShantalaHD
, formerly the Associate Director of IndiaBioscience. We look forward to scaling new heights and exploring new ventures under her able leadership.🚀
GIVEAWAY ALERT! 📚 🎉
We're back with a
#giveaway
to celebrate our love for
#IRIWI
book! You get to win a hardcopy! 🎉
Rules to enter:
1) Follow us! 🌟
2) 🔄 RT & ❤️ Like this tweet.
3) 🏷️ Tag 2 friends (Make sure they're following us!)
Bonus points:🗣️ Share your special IRWI
The wait is over! Drumroll, please!!🥁
🌟Awardees🌟 for 2nd IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants
#IOG
have been declared!! Congratulations, we eagerly await your outreach efforts. We thank everyone who applied. Keep up your passion for science outreach.
@DBTIndia
@TNQTechnologies
📢We are thrilled to announce the “2nd IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants” to support
#young
#investigators
🇮🇳 for
#outreach
&
#SciComm
initiatives for broad societal benefits in
#lifesciences
🚀Application opens 1 Sept
🎯Deadline 30 Sept
👉Details
🥁 DRUMROLL 🥁
The 16th Young Investigators' Meeting is coming to central India in March 2024.🌟
And applications for
#YIM2024
in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh is now officially OPEN!
📅 Save the date: March 11-15, 2024
👉 Apply now:
#DEI
in science is a journey, not a destination. 🚀
To celebrate the uniqueness of DEI in India's scientific landscape, we present to you this poster by
@IndiaBioscience
.
Want to display this DEI poster in your lab? 🧪👇
#DEIIndiaScience
(1/4)
A group of undergraduate students from
@iitmadras
created The Language Project, which offers free video lectures in biology in 26 different languages. Here is the story of their incredible journey.
@iGEM_IITM
#scicomm
#education
@gauribinayak
is a chemical ecologist who wiretapped plant-insect conversations in her Ph.D. at
@IISERPune
. She made this cross-section of a Casuarina Equisetifolia stem resembling Mandala art, a tree that carried generations of Onam swings on her college campus.
#FundaySunday
Excited to introduce our newest team member, Arushi Batra! 🎉
@Arushi_Batra28
joins us as the Program Manager for our Digital Initiatives vertical. We can't wait to see her contributions to the IndiaBioscience team! Welcome, Arushi.
#MeetTheTeam
#WeareIndiaBioscience
After a wonderful tenure at IndiaBioscience,
@ShantalaHD
hands over the baton to Karishma S Kaushik (
@_KarishmaK
), who is starting as the new Executive Director at IndiaBioscience! 🎉
📢We are thrilled to announce the “2nd IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants” to support
#young
#investigators
🇮🇳 for
#outreach
&
#SciComm
initiatives for broad societal benefits in
#lifesciences
🚀Application opens 1 Sept
🎯Deadline 30 Sept
👉Details
Science careers are diverse, changing and expanding. So what does the experience of an evolving
#career
path look like, and how does one build new skills, while leveraging existing ones?
Hint: New
#publication
from IndiaBioscience 📖
👉 Free Download:
We are very happy to announce "𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞", a free eBooklet that collates funding opportunities available for Life Science Researchers in India.
Download your free copy here -
@DBTIndia
@IndiaDST
@CSIRIndia
@PrinSciAdvOff
📢 We are thrilled to announce the “4th IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants” to support
#young
#investigators
for
#outreach
initiatives for broad societal benefits in
#lifesciences
🇮🇳
🚀Application start: 15 June 2023
🎯Deadline: 14 July 2023
👉
As part of our International Grants Awareness Program (
#iGAP
), we bring to you curated resources of International
#funding
opportunities for the Indian life science community.
Do follow this thread for
#funding
schemes with open calls 🧵 👇
📢
#YIM
#RYIM
alumni📢
Announcing the launch of IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants
#ApplyNow
to the 1st cycle on
#digital
outreach &
#SciComm
efforts for broad societal benefits in
#lifesciences
⏲️Apply by 30 July 2020
💰5 awards of up to INR 1 lakh
🔗
#IndiaBiostreams
is excited to announce a new
#webinar
series on "Crafting your Career". Join us for our first session where we'll introduce science careers & discuss a career in
#researchmanagement
. Register soon!
Date: 31 July 2020 | 3.30 PM
Register:
🔊The first episode of our new
#indiabiospeaks
#podcast
🎙️series, 'In Conversation with a Mentor,' featuring LS Shashidhara from
@AshokaUniv
, is releasing on 08/07/2021.
Stay tuned & check out the teaser below -
#LifeSciences
Get insights on tackling interdisciplinary problems by collaboration. Gautam Menon & Sandhya Koushika have described here what drove a theoretical physicist and a neurobiologist to collaborate and what they each gained from it (2018)
#ThrowBackThursday
📢 GIVEAWAY ALERT 📢 We're giving away three copies of the book 'Lab Hopping'! 📚🎉
To enter:
1. Follow us
2. Retweet this tweet
3. Reply to this tweet answering, ‘What does IndiaBioscience mean to you?’ Bonus points for sharing your favourite article from our website!
Are you a postdoctoral fellow on the verge of an independent research career? We invite you to apply for PDF Meeting 2021, a 4-day virtual networking meet that will allow you to interact directly with institutional representatives from India. More details:
Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (
@VaishAnanth
) is an
@EMBO
Young Investigator and
@India_Alliance
Intermediate Fellow. In this
#JOYI
article, she writes about her experience as a DST-INSPIRE faculty fellow, and later Assistant Professor at
@iiscbangalore
Introducing 'Create-it!': A science-art competition by IndiaBioscience 🤩
🎨 How to Participate:
Step 1: Create a science-inspired artwork.
Step 2: Share your masterpiece with us & submit your entry.
Step 3: Stay tuned as we announce the winners!
👉
🌞 Good morning, conference attendees! 🎉 The big day is here, and our registration desk is ready to welcome you with smiles, badges and much more. Get ready for an inspiring day of learning and networking! 🤝
#npds2023
#Networking
#LearningTogether
What are the benefits & difficulties of doing a
#postdoc
in India?
What are the funding opportunities available in India for
#PDFs
?
How is the recruitment for PDFs working in India?
We have a lot of Qs in mind & so do you. Let's discuss them with our guest PDFs at
#RadioPDF
.
@IndiaBioscience
is delighted to announce the 4th IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants awardees 🎉
Congratulations to all the awardees 🤝
We thank everyone who applied for this grant. Keep up your passion for science outreach 🇮🇳
🧵 👇
In the fourth article of our JOYI 2022 series,
@cbm2577
spoke about the different challenges she faced on her journey as a young investigator, lessons and navigational skills learned.
@CgdBHU
,
@bhupro
‘Starting out as a Young Investigator is lonely’, heard this line before?
Well, it does not have to be so. 😁
@IndiaBioscience
presents YI 101: A peer guide for early-career faculty in the life sciences in India. 🇮🇳
👉 Download the e-book here:
In our next
#JOYI
article,
@MayuriRege
writes about how she teaches her undergraduate students to fail successfully, a necessary skill in the arsenal of any scientist.
@DBTIndia
@IndiaDST
"There is nothing better than investing in good people. People are the most important part of any enterprise," says Shahid Jameel, CEO,
@India_Alliance
in this next interview in our "10 Leaders, 10 Questions" series
@DBTIndia
#leadership
@ICGEBNewDelhi
We are excited to announce our newest resource - a short guide for researchers planning to transition from academia to industry. The eBooklet can be downloaded for free from our website: (1/3)
🎉IndiaBioscience is thrilled to announce the Regional Young Investigators’ Meeting Grants (RYIM) Awardees for 2023-2024! 🎉
RYIMs will be held in Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir), Pilani (Rajasthan), Pune (Maharashtra), Hyderabad (Telangana), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Kolkata (West
#IndiaBiostreams
announces a new
#webinar
for PhDs and Postdocs on
#mentalhealth
in Indian academia. Join us for a moderated stakeholder dialogue towards making conscious and progressive changes at the individual and systemic levels:
🗓️ Sep 11, 2020 | 4PM
#YIM2023
, a
#networking
&
#mentorship
meeting for young investigators & postdocs in life sciences is coming soon! This time it's IN PERSON!
💥Mentor talks,
💥Panel discussions,
💥Breakout sessions,
💥Networking
🗓️13-17 Feb 2023
Apply now!
@AhdUniv
Are you a new writer planning to venture into science journalism? Are you excited by science outreach and communication?IndiaBioscience is offering a short internship program to train prospective science writers. More details here -
#scicomm
"True leadership is about looking at the larger picture...It is not just working towards the vision but letting the team become a part of the vision" says
@DBTIndia
secretary
@RenuSwarup
in this interview about the importance of
#leadership
in science
We are excited to announce the EMBO IndiaBioscience Online Seminars in partnership with
@EMBO
- to bring
#skillbuilding
#workshops
for the Indian life science community to the digital space. We have an announcement coming tomorrow. Any guesses?
As part of our International Grants Awareness Program (
#iGAP
), we bring curated resources of International funding opportunities for the Indian life science community.
@DBTIndia
Follow this thread for
#funding
schemes with open calls. 👇
📺We are happy to announce our next webinar on
#mentalhealth
& Indian academia, this time focusing on early/mid-career faculty. Join us for a moderated dialogue on making conscious & progressive changes at the individual/systemic level.
🗓️ Oct 9 🕓 4PM
If you are an Indian scientist with an exciting research idea related to
#COVID19
, here are a couple of grants that might help (Deadline 30 March). The first of this is the COVID-19 Research Consortium by
@DBTIndia
and
@BIRAC_2012
Congratulations to Manjula Reddy, Chief Scientist
@ccmb_csir
and YIM 2014 organiser, for being awarded the
@InfosysPrize
2019 in Life Sciences for her pioneering work on bacterial cell walls.
The Infosys Prize 2019 in Life Sciences is awarded to Dr. Manjula Reddy, Chief Scientist, CSIR - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.
@ccmb_csir
#InfosysPrize
#FundaySunday
@SumitSen616
is a researcher at
#TIFRMumbai
. His work, named ‘The Birth Element’, illustrates the role of water in the progress of evolution. The first spark of life happened in water, which led to form the first cell and later on to complex life forms.
#sciart
Sharing a frame, sharing the spirit with Jane Goodall!
You can watch the insightful lecture by the legendary ethologist here:
"Together we can, together we will"
@JaneGoodallInst
@IUBS_bio
If you are reading this, then you are on social media.
@KaushikLab
&
@sne_kad
discussed here the various ways researchers/science professionals can leverage social media to influence scientific discourse and policy (published in 2019).
#ThrowbackThursday
LS Shashidhara, newly elected president of the International Union of Biological Sciences & our board member, discusses the need for scientists to collaborate on a global level to address today's pressing problems
@ISC
@IISERPune
@AshokaUniv
@DBTIndia
1/3 Our life scientists’ database is growing🎉
We have about 720+ life scientists, thanks to all the contributors who chose to be a part of this national database.
Click here for more details -
@DBTIndia
@IndiaDST
Engage | Collaborate | Grow
We begin Day 1 of
#YIM2021
with a welcome address by Karishma Kaushik, one of the organisers of the meeting, who encourages the participants to make the most of the networking opportunities at the meeting. /thread
Our hearty congratulations to Ron Vale, IndiaBioscience board member and professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology
@UCSF
for receiving the prestigious
@GairdnerAwards
for his work on kinesin motors!
After productive days of brainstorming sessions at
#YIM2024
, we all gathered for a lively gala dinner night.🌟
YIs, PDFs, institutional representatives, mentors, speakers, and the IndiaBioscience team came together to dance it off! 🤩
#science
#conference
We were at IISER Bhopal! 🏨
Wonderful interactions with PhD researchers and faculty.
At IndiaBioscience, we never miss an opportunity to interface directly with our stakeholders!
👩🔬👨🔬🧪
Registrations are open for
#YIM2024
🤩
If you are newly setting up your lab in 🇮🇳 or looking for
#mentorship
and
#networking
opportunities to come back to 🇮🇳, this meeting is for you!
📍 Bhopal, MP
📆 March 11-15, 2024
👩💻 Apply before Nov 1, 2023
Do you
#teach
#biology
at undergrad or higher levels? Are you passionate about
#HigherEducation
in India? Do you explore creative ways to enable
#learning
?
If you said YES to any, we invite you to write for us. Send your pitch to education
@indiabioscience
.org.
@iitmadras
@RenuSwarup
@DBTIndia
#YIM2020
continues with the launch of "Disha: A Career Resource Book for Life Science and Biotechnology Students". Authored by
@DrSumanGovil
, former senior adviser at
@DBTIndia
, this book provides comprehensive guidance on navigating the landscape of science careers in India.
We bring to you a 5-day online workshop on 'Writing About Science for Non-Scientific Audiences' in collaboration with
@IndiaBioscience
starting from 7th Dec 2020. This workshop will help people interested in popular science writing.
@IISERPune
#scicomm
#online
#workshop
IndiaBioscience is excited to announce the 5th IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants! 🇮🇳 🤩
🚀Application opened on 14 June 2024
🎯Deadline: 15 July 2024
For more details and eligibility 👇
@DBTIndia
@India_Alliance
@NCBS_Bangalore
#IOG
#Applications
are now open for
#YIM2020
(Mahabalipuram, 14-18 Feb 2020). Register soon for a scintillating meeting filled with exciting science as well as discussions on mentorship, lab management, funding, outreach and much more. More details here -
#Day3
of
#YIM2020
begins with a talk by LS Shashidhara of
@AshokaUniv
and
@IISERPune
, who talks about the need for integrating research and education to equip students to develop critical thinking and analytical skills to solve 21st-century problems.
We are happy to announce the third
#webinar
in the "Crafting your Career" series.
Join us on
#IndiaBiostreams
as we discuss the art and science of professional networking, the entrepreneurial journey, and more.
Oct 30 | 3.30 PM IST
Register:
We wish our community a very happy
#InternationalWomensDay
2021! Here are the amazing women in our team speaking about their journey, role models, and advice for the next generation.
#YIM2024
: We recognise the dual challenges of balancing childcare arrangements while attending career-boosting meetings.
Starting this year, we will offer
#ChildcareGrants
(up to a maximum of INR 15000 per grant) for the YIMs for a select number.