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Dr. Kunika Gupta has officially defended her #PhD at
@tifrscience.bsky.social! Under the supervision of Prof. Ankona Datta, she developed fluorescent sensors that light up in the presence of copper ions in cells and living organisms. 🧵👇

#TIFRScience #PhDefense #DCS_TIFR #Sensors
April 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Back in my first neuro research institute yesterday at the beautiful @TIFRScience Mumbai to give a talk on 'organisation of brain time'. Immensely honoured and impressed with the quality of questions and interest🙏. Thanks @shubhatole for organising and your long term mentorship!
November 26, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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Announcing the Institute Colloquium, a new scientific lecture series to foster dialogue across disciplines within the TIFR academic community.

📍TIFR Mumbai

#InstituteColloquium #ScienceAtTIFR #AcademicLife #TIFRScience
August 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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#AwardAlert Congratulations to Amol Dighe (TIFR, Mumbai), Anish Ghosh (TIFR, Mumbai), Rama Govindarajan (ICTS-TIFR) & Mahesh Sankaran (@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social) for being awarded the J.C. Bose Grant by @ANRFIndia for their outstanding research contributions.

#TIFRScience #JCBoseGrant
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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4/ Currently a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego's Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (@HDSIUCSD), Neha continues to advance research in information theory.

Read more about her work here: sites.google.com/view/nehasan...

#InformationTheory #CyberSecurity #IEEE #Byzantine #TIFRScience
May 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Today marks the 116th birth anniversary of Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, who was born #OnThisDay in 1909. A visionary physicist, institution-builder, and founding director of TIFR, he laid the foundations of modern scientific research in India.

#HomiBhabha #FoundersDay #TIFRScience
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Back in my first neuro research institute yesterday at the beautiful @TIFRScience Mumbai to give a talk on 'organisation of brain time'. Immensely honoured and impressed with the quality of questions and interest🙏. Thanks @shubhatole for organising and your long term mentorship!
November 26, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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What lies beyond the Standard Model?
Join Prof. Matthias Neubert (@mainzuniversity.bsky.social) for the 6th D.P. Roy Memorial Lecture — “Landscapes of Fundamental Physics”.

🗓 Oct 13, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM | 📍 TIFR, Mumbai

More details: theory.tifr.res.in/DPRML

#TIFRScience #PublicLecture #Physics
October 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Anusha Shankar (@tifrhyderabad.bsky.social) delivered a Popular Lecture at @TIFRScience on the occasion of Founder's Day, exploring how tiny birds master light & energy to thrive in changing environments.

This year marks Dr. Homi J. Bhabha’s 116th birth anniversary (October 30).

#FoundersDay
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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A privilege and honor to work on this with @viditavaidya.bsky.social and late Dr.Ashok Vaidya - dedicating this to his inspiring mentorship and memory. Collaboration: TIFRScience- ViditaVaidya lab, and KHS-MRC, Dr. Lal Hingorani, Kowshik Kukkemane, Utkarsha Ghai UllasKolthur
April 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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How do bacteria outsmart stress & resist antibiotics? Dr. Amitesh Anand (@amiteshanand.bsky.social) discusses how 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪 adapt when key energy pathways are blocked + why this matters for the future of antimicrobial therapies.
Read more: bit.ly/combatting-AMR
#TIFRScience #AMR #Microbiology
April 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Back in my first neuro research institute yesterday at the beautiful @TIFRScience Mumbai to give a talk on 'organisation of brain time'. Immensely honoured and impressed with the quality of questions and interest🙏. Thanks @shubhatole for organising and your long term mentorship!
December 21, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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From the Big Bang to black holes and dark energy—discover the epic story of our Universe with Nobel laureate Prof. Brian Schmidt!

🗓 June 5, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM
📍 Homi Bhabha Auditorium, TIFR, Mumbai
Free & open to all (Photo ID required)
#TIFRScience #PublicLecture #ScienceForAll
June 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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#AwardAlert Prof. Anish Ghosh & Prof. Mythily Ramaswamy from #TIFRScience have been elected as INSA Fellows for 2026.

Their pioneering work in number theory, dynamics & control theory continues to advance mathematical sciences.

More: tifr.res.in/~scicomm/awa...
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Next is @kamaldeepss13 from @TIFRScience who looked at insulin effect on rab4-mediated axonal transport in Drosophila neurons #celldyn2023
January 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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We resume the story on 'Brain Cafe' @RNPCBM
-- a weekly information series on brain & mind.

Story 1 - Astrocytes

@DAEIndia @TIFRScience @NCBS_Bangalore
@RNP_Foundation @RPadinjat

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April 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Bibha Chowdhuri- physicist, & pioneering cosmic ray researcher from India.
After her PhD at The University of Manchester under PMS Blackett, she worked as a scientist @TIFRScience, Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad & the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. Read more: shorturl.at/ESp46
March 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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4/ From serendipity to solid science, Kunika’s journey lights the way for new sensors in cell biology.

Paper: doi.org/10.1039/d3cc...

#WomenInSTEM #MetalBiology #TIFRScience #PhDefense
An activity-based fluorescent sensor with a penta-coordinate N-donor binding site detects Cu ions in living systems
An activity-based sensor afforded a 63 times fluorescence-enhancement with Cu2+/Cu+ ions and could image Cu2+/Cu+ in living cells and in a multicellular organism. The sensor functioned only in the pre...
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April 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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What is life?
Find out from Nobel laureate Paul Nurse as he explores 5 big ideas in biology!

Join us for a public lecture at the Homi Bhabha Auditorium on May 30, 2025 (Friday).

Open to all (photo ID required)

#TIFRScience #PublicLecture #ScienceForAll #NobelLaureate
May 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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1/3 Did you know heating a liquid can sometimes turn it into a solid? @TIFRScience researchers just observed this rare effect, inverse melting, in a superconductor! The image below shows raw vortex motion—blurred when liquid, sharp when solid. 🧵👇
March 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Full paper available here: doi.org/10.1039/D5CC...

#TIFRScience #ChemistryInIndia #GreenChemistry
May 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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A digital cartoon book, 'Tuning Mental Frameworks' by TIFR faculty, Deepa Chari & Vandana Nanal, was recently released.

It explores themes of gender bias, imposter syndrome & implicit bias, encouraging reflection & dialogue on creating equitable, inclusive spaces in science.

#Booksky #TIFRScience
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Sleep is required for memory consolidation in fed flies. Sleep-dependent & independent memories are via different circuits. Ethanol fed flies sleep better but drives a switch to sleep-independent memory consolidation. Switch via a neuropeptide. Nitin Chouhan @TIFRScience #EMBOneuropeptides
December 7, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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#AwardAlert Sourav Chatterjee from the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at TIFR, Mumbai, has been selected as the recipient of the Prof. Peraiah Foundation Lecture 2025, in recognition of his contributions to Theoretical Astrophysics in India.
#TIFRScience #ScienceInIndia
October 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Congratulations to Dr. Smitaroopa Kahali for defending her #PhD in Chemical Sciences at @TIFRScience! Working with Prof. Ankona Datta, she developed fluorescent sensors to track ions in living cells.

Read her work: orcid.org/0009-0004-50... #WomenInSTEM
August 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM