IndiaBiospeaks

Have you ever experienced the warm fuzzy feeling when you look at babies? Why do you find them cute? Join Utsuka and Jigyasa to find out why. In the second segment, they both talk to Dr. Vidita Vaidya (https://www.tifr.res.in/~dbs/faculty/V_Vaidya.html), a brain scientist from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, about how researchers study emotions.

Credits:

Hosts: Shweata N. Hegde and Ruchi Manglunia

Audio Editors: Ira Zibbu and Shweata Hegde

Poster: Ruchi Manglunia

Advisor: Megha Kumar

IBS: Suchibrata Borah and Shantala Hari Dass

In this episode, we have talked to Prof. Manju Bansal who is a professor of the Theoretical Biophysics group in the Molecular Biophysics Unit of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She is the founder-director of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology at Bangalore.

Credit:

Guest - Manju Bansal

Host - Shantala Hari Dass

Editing - Moumita Mazumdar

Planning - Suchibrata Borah

Plants are everywhere. Ever noticed something about their colour? Yes, most of them are green.

Have you wondered why are plants green? Like why not orange or blue?

Utsuka and Jigyasa had the same question, too! Join them in this episode to know exactly why plants are green.

In our Ask A Scientist segment, listen to Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, who studies plants using computers! If you want to learn more about her work, check out her website (http://www.nipgr.ac.in/research/dr_gyadav.php).

Hosts: Shweata N. Hegde and Ruchi Manglunia Audio Editors: Ira Zibbu and Shweata Hegde Poster: Ruchi Manglunia Advisor: Megha Kumar IndiaBioscience team: Suchibrata Borah, Shantala Hari Dass

The guest of this episode of In Conversation with a Mentor is Bimalendu B. Nath, an Emeritus Professor of Savitribai Phule Pune University, and the Vice President of the Association of Teachers in Biological Sciences, Mumbai. Bimal has been teaching Genetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity for nearly three decades and is actively involved in science outreach programmes. In this episode, he talks about his journey as an educator and throws light on some of the current challenges of higher education in biology in India.

Credit:

Guest - Bimalendu B. Nath

Host - Vijeta Raghuram

Editing - Moumita Mazumdar

Concept - Suchibrata Borah, Vijeta Raghuram

Gear up to listen to a brand new podcast series, IndiaAsksWhy, where Utsuka and Jigyasa answer curious questions!

Growing up, we all have had questions running through our minds, and they seldom get answered by our science textbooks at school!

Utsuka and Jigyasa are bringing you the answers to all such questions. They also talk to Indian scientists to understand how they find such answers in their labs.

Stay tuned for more updates from IndiaAsksWhy!

Credits:

Hosts: Shweata N. Hegde and Ruchi Manglunia

Audio Editors: Ira Zibbu and Shweata Hegde

Poster: Ruchi Manglunia

IndiaBioscience Team: Suchibrata Borah & Shantala Hari Dass

This podcast was recorded in April 2020

In this podcast, we are talking about mental health with Soumitra Pathare who is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of the Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy at ILS. He is also a member of the Policy Group appointed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, to draft a new national mental health policy for India.

Credits:

Recording: Shantala Hari Dass (IndiaBioscience)

Artwork: Lakshmi Ganesan (IndiaBioscience)

Editing: Moumita Mazumdar

This podcast was recorded in May 2020

This is a continuation of the conversation with Krishnan Ragunathan on the biology of viruses and how they impact human health.

Credits:

Recording: Shantala Hari Dass (IndiaBioscience)

Artwork: Lakshmi Ganesan (IndiaBioscience)

Editing: Moumita Mazumdar and Raghul MR (BLiSC Communications Office)

Here, we talk to mentors who paved their way into unconventional career paths breaking the stereotypes, mentors who successfully led startups/businesses in the life sciences, mentors who found love for science management and administration, and of course the ones who made research look cool.

In this third episode, from the series, we have Dr. Sanjay Mishra as our guest. Dr. Mishra has recently joined as a Scientist H at the Department of Biotechnology, India. However, this podcast was recorded when he was serving as the Advisor and Head of the Inspire division at the Department of Science & Technology India. Dr. Mishra is also the former Advisor and Head of the KIRAN division at DST.

Guest: Sanjay Mishra

Host: Suchibrata Borah

Concept: Shantala Hari Dass, Suchibrata Borah

Editing: Moumita Mazumdar, Suchibrata Borah

This podcast was recorded in May 2020

In this episode, we have a conversation with Krishnan Ragunathan on the biology of viruses and how they impact human health. Krishnan is a virologist at the Children's Hospital at the University of Pittsburgh. Here he answers some general questions about viruses such as what is a virus, how it creates a new strain etc. and also talks about the novel coronavirus.

Credits:

Recording: Shantala Hari Dass (IndiaBioscience)

Artwork: Lakshmi Ganesan (IndiaBioscience)

Editing: Moumita Mazumdar and Raghul MR (BLiSC Communications Office)

This podcast was recorded in April 2020

In this series, we talk to experts to understand various aspects of the current COVID-19 outbreak, the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus, and research endeavours in this field. This episode is the second part of a two-part conversation where Shantala Hari Dass (IndiaBioscience, Bangalore) talks to Sitabhra Sinha (Institute of Mathematical Science, Chennai) to understand how to build mathematical models of disease transmission in order to understand the numbers and statistics associated with the current COVID-19 outbreak.