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Mentorship Circles at #YIM2026 At the PDF satellite meeting, postdocs engaged directly with mentors and institutional leaders—asking real questions about faculty applications, research careers, infrastructure, and navigating academia in India. @uramakri @nbodhi84 @Jain_Lab @pkvemula @InamdarManeesha @JomonJosephJoe @DrRajivProvost @MayurikaLahiri @minivets @PallaviKshetra2 @DrSagarSengupta @DimpleNotani @ametasandeep @ShamikSen9 @SanjeevSaGa @SwastiLab @UllasKolthur

@MoumiMazumdar @DBTIndia @symbiosistweets Mentorship, independence, and lab culture define not just outcomes—but careers. Because leadership in science is as much emotional as it is intellectual. From choosing research directions to hiring people, one message stood out: people before projects.

At YIM 2026, breakout discussions revealed that building a lab it’s not just about science—but identity, culture, and resilience. Visual notes by @MoumiMazumdar capture how early decisions shape the “soul” of a lab- buff.ly/uZ5sO5K @DBTIndia @symbiosistweets

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@SathyabamaSIST is organising a Flow cytometry Techniques. 🗓️17 & 18 April 2026 More details 👇 indiabioscience.org/events/flow-cy…

Welcome back to #ScienceJobsTuesday, a weekly thread where we bring a curated list of jobs, grants, and events relevant to the Indian life science community 👩‍🔬 @DBTIndia @IndiaDST @India_Alliance @serbonline

from frontline defence to memory building and repair. Molecular clocks like BMAL1 help regulate inflammation and immune timing. Sleep isn’t weakness — it’s immune optimisation. This research opens doors to “time-of-day medicine”: 💉 Better vaccine timing 💊 Smarter chronotherapy 🌙 New strategies for shift-worker health Biology isn’t just about strength — timing matters.

Can immunity be reduced at night? 🌓 Research in chrono-immunology shows our immune system follows a circadian rhythm — shifting strategy between day and night rather than simply “switching off.” Read the full article (buff.ly/107YsFZ) by Diptarup Mallick. At night, immune cells like T-cells move from the bloodstream to lymph nodes — shifting, About the image: Image created by Moumita Mazumdar using ChatGPT 5.2 version. Prompt used: Hand-drawn educational illustration showing the circadian rhythm of the immune system in a lively cartoon style. Include a daytime clock with sun, a nighttime clock with moon, a sleeping person, immune cells and microbes shown as friendly cartoon characters, arrows showing day–night immune activity shift, and light lab/science elements like molecules or medical tools. Soft watercolour texture, sketch-like outlines, educational infographic feel.

Now working on sex-specific immune mechanisms in stroke, Sugitharini hopes to contribute to impactful healthcare research from India. Her message: career breaks are not endpoints. With persistence, learning, and support, rebuilding a research career is possible.

Balancing pipettes and parenting wasn’t easy. From rebuilding lab skills after breaks to navigating research while pregnant and raising two young children, Sugitharini’s journey highlights the realities of motherhood in science — and the power of mentorship, support systems, and self-belief.

From Jurassic Park–inspired curiosity to immunology research, Sugitharini’s #JOYI2026 journey shows how scientific dreams can survive pauses. Read: buff.ly/vnObmWC Through genetics, PhD research on neonatal sepsis, and a return to science after career breaks, her story reflects resilience and lifelong learning in Indian research. @SRM_Univ

What is climate change, and how do we study it? Climate changes slowly over long periods, unlike daily weather, so scientists rely on long-term data. Where does this data come from, and can you access it too to study climate change? Read more: indiabioscience.org/science-simpli… Original in SciTales by @ccmb_csir - scitales.ccmb.res.in/what-is-climat… @CSIR_IND @CsirJigyasa @SomdattaKarak @ArghaManna