Delighted to share the news that my wife Sharmila Mande has been named as one of the Distinguished Alumnus awardees of @iiscbangalore. She obtained her PhD in 1991 from @Physics_at_IISc. Pictures are from her PhD days.
Shekhar Mande
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Shekhar Mande
@shekhar_mande
Distinguished Prof Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune Univ (formerly University of Pune), tweeting in personal capacity. Former Director General CSIR
Pune, India
Joined October 2009
- Historic day as Asafoetida cultivation starts in India for the first time. Despite essential ingredient of most Indian cuisine, it's all imported. Thanks to @CSIR_IHBT this is going to change. @AgriGoI@CSIR_IND@icarindia
- Oxygen enrichment units developed at @CSIRIIP -most suitable at hospitals, can generate upto 500 lit/m Oxygen. Please contact @CSIR_IND or CSIR-IIP, Dehradun for further details. Deployment possible within 2-3 weeks. @MoHFW_INDIA@drharshvardhan@NDRFHQ@ndmaindia@PMOIndia
- Peanut lectin, the 1st protein structure solved in India by Xray #crystallography, & my PhD thesis, now adorns the Life Sciences building of Univ of Hyd #UoH. Thank you Prof Dayanand Siddavatam for the display. @iiscbangalore@Bio_IISc@HydUniv@IUCr00:00
- Found somewhere on the web, so I'm obviously plagiarising, can't quote the source because I don't know it. But so useful, and so true. Whosoever came up with this :-)
- 1/n Rarely has any field of enquiry in contemporary science started in India. Molecular Biophysics is an unique exception. GN Ramachandran, also known affectionately as GNR, initiated this field in the then Madras in early 1950's.
- While we were busy on Covid-19 numbers, among the most remarkable Mathematicians- SS Shrikhande quietly left us. Family friend of my parents, he will be remembered forever for his outstanding work, RIP. Indian Maths Genius Who Debunked Euler’s Theory. news18.com/news/opinion/i…
- Proud of our son- Nikhil, now Dr. Nikhil Mande, who received the Best Thesis award of the TIFR @TIFRScience for his work in Theoretical Computer Science.
- Greetings of the National Science Day. CV Raman on this day in 1928 announced the discovery of a new type of radiation (now known as Raman scattering). The paper communicated to @Nature was rejected by the referees but accepted by the Editor, published on 31st March, 1928
- Peanut lectin- my PhD thesis 1991, the 1st protein crystal structure from India, & its 1st electron density map, hand contoured by me then. Thanks to @HydUniv for the display @MBU_IISc@iiscbangalore@Bio_IISc@IUCr
- The lavendar fields of Pulwama under CSIR's Aroma Mission are changing the livelihoods of locals like never before- a mini revolution of a kind. Seen that first hand today. @CSIR_IND@csiriiim@DrJitendraSingh
- Today Hon'ble PM asked the scientific community to come up with a vaccine to fight this virus. CSIR has launched a major sequencing drive to understand the viral strains infecting India. This is the first step towards developing a cure. @IGIBSocial@ccmb_csir@CSIR_IND@PMOIndia
- The best treasure of my life- Kautilya's Arthasastra, original copy @CSIR_IND
