August 2022 events
Photo credit: Outreach team Open Day at Mathura Road Date: 4th August 2022, 10 am – 1 pm Students from Dev Samaj Modern School visited our Mathura Road campus. The…
September Word Search
There are names of different cellular organelles hidden within the word block below, find them all! Instructions: select the start letter drag till the end letter select the end letter…
Message to the Freshers
Photo credit: Aastha Vatsyayan; Painting credit: Bhupesh Taneja Lab Saw a number of new faces in the campus recently and started wondering how quickly time passes us by. Around the…
Two wheels on a highway, one rider
A hundred and fifty kilometres, thirteenth hour Every muscle in my body has gone sour Thinking, contemplating, feeling lighter Two wheels on a highway, one wise rider One hybrid geared…
Research Highlights of August 2022
Photo credit: Jeyashri Rengaraju A roundup of research articles published in the last month (16 July – 15 August 2022) at the institute: From being asymptomatic to needing a ventilator…
Wandering Educators
On the 15th of July 2022 IGIBās outreach team reached a school in the deep rural interior of the biggest state in India, Uttar Pradesh. Our aim was to ignite…
Love in the Lab
Letās talk about love. Nothing new. Itās all around, in the air. In a scientific institute, which is as near a bio-bubble in everyday life as can be, we all…
10 years past and 10 years future
Ten years ago, this time of the year, it was not uncommon to see green rickety tempos pulling into the gates of the Mathura Road campus. There would often be…
A path less trodden
Photo credit: K. Sangeetha I joined my PhD at IGIB as an enthusiastic and confident person who had done well in her masterās degree courses and PhD interviews. In my…
Wo Tanha Shajar
Be-barg meri in shaakhon pe mai gulo ko sajaye baitha huā¦ Aaftaab me aise tapte hue kuchh khwab jalaye baitha huā¦ Ye sham bhale kuchh ghamgeen hai, par subah nayi…
Book Review: The Monk in the Garden
Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel by Robin Marantz Henig The first ever biography written about Johann Gregor Mendel, the father of Genetics, was āLife of Mendelā by the…