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February has been a month of remembering CCMB from decades back. It has been one of engaging wildlife biologists and conservationists in different ways. It has been a time for thinking about fungal diseases. If these intrigue you, enjoy our recent Daak: mailchi.mp/67275935faf5/c…

Vets perform transrectal palpation (insert a hand into the animal's rectum to feel the uterus) & ultrasound to check for cattle pregnancy.Blood tests are invasive, urine difficult to collect. @gupathy's new patented tech changes these by allowing non-invasive pregnancy detection.

If biology is your calling, our PhD call for the Aug batch is now open. Apply by 14 Apr: apply.registernow.in/CCMB/Phd25/ @CSIR_IND @AcSIR_India

Open positions at CCMB: ccmb.res.in/administator/u… Last date to apply: 25 Mar, 2026. @CSIR_IND

Today is World Frog Day. Frogs that should croak as soon as the monsoon arrives. But are they found as many now? They unfortunately are the most threatened vertebrates. This coming monsoon, we all have roles to play in their conservation, as pointed out by Karthikeyan Vasudevan.

From lab research to university teaching to research management, Sravanti Vaidya brings in her rich expertise in setting up a grants team at CCMB that manages national and international funds. Read about her journey as an IRMI fellow @India_Alliance : indiaalliance.org/stories_of_sci…

Have you been that kid who wondered what happens in the ant colony? How do bees divide up their work in their hive? And, you are still trying to find good answers to these as adults, we will have the one and only Raghavendra Gadagkar to help us navigate through these. @CSIR_IND

Inanimate molecules come together to form the wonder called life. But how did this miracle come to be? Sauvik Das Naskar writes on taking through how life scientists understand it: scitales.ccmb.res.in/from-chaos-to-… @CSIR_IND

We did our first gene cloning workshop for undergrad students. They are trying to find their space amid friends pursuing vocational courses. They dream big to work with cutting-edge tech. Yet, most of them don't have access to labs to learn how to use pipettes or make reagents.

Here is an efficient protocol for primordial germ cell differentiation in vitro from K Thangaraj and P Chandra Shekar's labs: frontiersin.org/journals/cell-… @CSIR_IND

Glimpses from the recent skill development program for PhD scholars, research scientists and faculty members on: Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics: From Bench to Insight, at CCMB. @CSIR_IND

Many congratulations to Pathri Achyutha Krishna for the Biophysical Society Travel Award & the @ANRFIndia's International Travel Grant to present a talk, chair a session, and attend the Biophysical Society 2026 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, USA.

You might be following our work on estimating Eastern Ghats biodiversity with environmental DNA. But conserving these, many of them formally undocumented species require protecting habitats. Hence, genomics met landscape ecology at a recent symposium here: thehindu.com/news/cities/Hy…

Many congratulations to @SGinkuntla for the best poster award at National Conference on Advances in Plant and Environmental Interactions-2026. It was held at Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad. @CSIR_IND @HydUniv

Open positions at CCMB: ccmb.res.in/administator/u… Apply by 9 Mar, 2026. @CSIR_IND

This National Science Day, our flavour of the season has been showing all how neurons fire and how that can be measured as well as utilized for cool and crazy applications. Happy neuron firing! @CSIR_IND

Many congratulations to Anjana Sharma for the best oral presentation award at the International conference on Global sustainability through life science: Green energy, Climate resilience & SDG integration at St Pious degree college with Dallas Baptist University, Texas USA.

Scenes from the last skill development program with wildlife veterinarians on Wildlife DNA Forensics at CCMB. @CSIR_IND

Open positions at CCMB: ccmb.res.in/administator/u… @CSIR_IND

We have a new YouTube podcast series, CCMB Conversations. This is an @ANRFIndia+ initiative. And, we kickstart with Sangram Bagh on making intelligent bacterial networks. Enjoy it: youtu.be/rtxydXLvanI?si… Interlocutor @SomdattaKarak Post-recording processing: Aditya Undru