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Blog Posts

Anekdota

  1. A Fortuitous Mistake that Saved Lives- The Invention of the first Implantable Pacemaker
  2. the story behind telomerase. no caps!
  3. When Your Sibling Is a Chimp
  4. Age Reversal Using Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
  5. Blue Blood
  6. Climbing Without Fear
  7. HeLa
  8. The Shocking Story Behind Frankenstein
  9. Bicycle Day
  10. The First Clinical Trial?
  11. Fishing for Fossils
  12. Serendipity In Science And GFP
  13. The Weight of a Human Soul
  14. The Tale of the Lab Rat
  15. Open Heart Surgeries
  16. The Genetic Code
  17. Arachnophobia Cut Out of Man's Brain
  18. Dolly - The Cloned Sheep


Anthropoid

  1. Do Animals Dream?
  2. Do Animals Fall Prey to the Green-Eyed Monster?
  3. Do Animals Love?
  4. Do Animals Have Pets?
  5. Do Animals Enjoy Music?
  6. Do Animals Make Art?
  7. Does Shared Blood Lead to Shared Love?
  8. Do Animals Commute?
  9. Do Animals Lie?
  10. Do Animals Have Accents?
  11. Do Animals Learn?
  12. Do Animals Have Personalities?


Erevna

  1. Left Handedness Research- Developments in the Last Half Century
  2. T-Cell Transfer Therapy
  3. Prey Survival by Predator Intimidation
  4. 3D Bioprinting
  5. Pollination
  6. Electrical and Synaptic Integration of Glioma Into Neural Circuits
  7. Chemotherapy
  8. Blood–Brain Barrier Opening in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Mr-Guided Focused Ultrasound
  9. Non-Invasive Study of Soft Tissues
  10. Computational Studies of the Role of Serotonin in the Basal Ganglia
  11. Physical Techniques for Gene Delivery Based on Membrane Perforation
  12. Neural Progenitors Depleted by Zika Virus
  13. Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis
  14. Wing Bone Geometry Reveals Active Flight In Archaeopteryx
  15. Brain-gut-microbe Communication in Health and Disease
  16. Gene Therapy
  17. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
  18. A Mating Debacle: To Call or to Respond
  19. Gene Time Bomb Hurt Mammoths
  20. Mutation Screens
  21. Optogenetics
  22. Sanger Sequencing
  23. The Synchrotron


Sciensations

  1. Félix Manuel de Azara
  2. Edward O. Wilson
  3. Ramdeo Mishra
  4. Santiago Ramòn y Cajal: The Artist of the Brain
  5. P Maheshwari
  6. Konrad Lorenz
  7. JD Bernal
  8. David Baltimore
  9. Janaki Ammal
  10. Kary Mullis
  11. Konrad Lorenz
  12. Lynn Margulis
  13. Salim Ali
  14. Shinya Yamanaka
  15. Waldemar Haffkine


Sports Science

  1. Predict the Unpredictable
  2. Reactive Strength Index
  3. Static Stretching: Is It Helping or Hindering You?
  4. Can Genetics Explain The Success of East African Runners?
  5. Fasted vs Unfasted Cardio: Which is Better for Fat Loss?
  6. Caffeine as a Preworkout
  7. ET vs SIT
  8. Drug Free Muscle Potential
  9. Sound of Tennis
  10. Weight cutting in combat sports. An open debate.


Dark Biology

  1. Project Coast
  2. Aqua Tofana


Events

Faculty Talks

  1. Prof. S Murthy Srinivasula | On His Research Experiences
  2. Prof. Maneesha Inamdar | Tweaking Longevity Pathways in Stem Cells
  3. Dr. Mahmoud Pouladi | Modelling Triplet Repeat Expansions
  4. Dr. V Stalin Raj | Nobel Talk Series: Discovery of Hepatitis C Virus
  5. Dr. Katrina Fernandez | The Smooth-Coated Otter
  6. Dr. Swagatika Sahoo | Whole-body Metabolic Modeling
  7. Prof. Snezhana Oliferenko | Rhetor, the Mini-Symposium: Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function
  8. Prof. Hajime Hirase | Rhetor, the Mini-Symposium: Heterogeneity of Astrocytes in Glycogen Content and GPCR-driven Dynamics
  9. Prof. Shubha Tole | Rhetor, the Mini-Symposium: The Circuits of Sensation: How We Perceive the World
  10. Dr. Andrew Galpin | Human Performance Education and Sports Science
  11. Dr. Ines Anna Drinnenberg | Evolution of centromeres: Conserved function, yet diverse architectures
  12. Dr. Sabari Sankar Thirupathy. | 10^8, the exponent of life
  13. Dr. Olivier Duss, Group Leader, Duss Group, EMBL, Hiedelberg | Tracking assembly and function of single active protein-RNA complexes in real time
  14. Dr. Olivier Duss, Group Leader, Duss Group, EMBL, Hiedelberg | Molecular parasites tamed for genome engineering
  15. Dr. Poonam Thakur, Assistant Professor, School of Biology, IISER TVM. | The Model Organism Mouse in Research


Student Talks

  1. Siddartha Yaddanapudi | The Experience of Graduating During The Pandemic
  2. Nadi Dixit | Lab Experience in Germany
  3. Rafeeque Mavoor | Scientific Illustrations as an Emerging Career Option
  4. Master Jose Gil Jr. | Characterizing the 3D organization of holocentric chromosomes in Bombyx mori


Competitions

  1. Blast 1.0 - The first biology based treasure hunt!
  2. Bio Art Competion for Model Organisms
  3. Bio Art 2.0
  4. Blast 2.0 Prelims
  5. Blast 2.0 Finals
  6. Five Seconds Rule
  7. Shipwreck


Peer Discussion

  1. Start-ups in Biology, an overview and how-to!


Shiksha: Independent Club Outreach

  1. Shiksha session at Pratap Public School, Jarnaily Colony, Karnal, Haryana
  2. Shiksha session at Puri, Odisha
  3. Shiksha session at Vocational Higher Secondary School, Edamon
  4. Shiksha session at All Saints Public School, Vithura, TVM
  5. Shiksha session at Government School, Vithura, TVM


Rhetor 3.0: The Annual Club Symposium

  1. Dr. Tamal Das, Reader F, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad | Unravelling the collective dynamics of biological cells: An interdisciplinary enquiry.
  2. Prof. Kushagra Bansal, Faculty Fellow, JNCASR Bangalore | T cell Tolerance
  3. Dr. Gayathri Pananghat, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, IISER Pune | Cytoskeletal filaments that sculpt a helical bacterial cell
  4. Prof. Mohit Prasad | Germline protein, Cup, non cell, autonomously limits migratory cell fate in Drosophila oogenesis
  5. Dr. Satish Khurana, Associate Professor, SoB, IISER TVM | Principles of regeneration and adult stem cells
  6. Dr. Devapriya Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth and Climate Science, IISER Pune | What do clams tell us? A molluscan perspective on Paleoecology
  7. Prof. Subhadra Channa, |Biodiversity and the Nature-Centric Approach: Critiquing Anthropocentrism.
  8. >Dr. Arjun Krishnan | Training machines and humans to democratise data driven biology
  9. Ms. Maj-Britt Karlman Asp | Astrobiology- researching habitable worlds and life in space


Panel Discussions

  1. Women in Science Panel Discussion | Moderator: Anagha Muralidharan | Panel: Prof. Hema Somanathan, Dr. Poonam Thakur, Dr. Nisha N Kannan, Dr. Sandrea Maureen Francis (IISER TVM)
  2. Science Communication and how to do it? | Dr. Sandhya Sekhar, Science communicator and Manager, Mongabay India


Alumni Talks

  1. Master Siddharth Shivanandan, B17 Alumnus, Graduate student, Stowers Institute of Medical Research, Kansas City, USA | After BS-MS, PhD applications and more


Other Events and Talks Conducted!

    Events:
  1. Stem Cell Week
  2. colour: Photography Exhibit
  3. Official Launch of Nucleus
  4. Grassroots 3.0 (Batch-22)
    Talks:
  1. Dr. Gautam Das | Genomics for All
  2. Dr. Manu Johns Chowallur | Unraveling the Mystery behind Crimes -Role of a Forensic Pathologist
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