Endowment Lectures
M J Thirumalachar & M J Narasimhan Endowment Lectures
To honour the memory of her well-known mycologist husband, MJ Thirumalachar, and their son, M J Narasimhan, M Jeerasannidhi Kasthuri endowed a lecture series in 2007. On 18th June, 2015, the endowment lecture was given by Shankar Balasubramanian 鈥� the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
- ,听Why I Love Bacteria,听2011
- ,听How Antibiotics illuminate Ribosome Function & vice versa,听2011
- ,听Decoding Human Genomes on a Population Scale,听FRS FMedSci,Herchel Smith Professor Of Medicinal Chemistry, Fellow of Trinity College, Department of Chemistry,University of Cambridge, UK, 聽2015.
- , Gen Therapy: It works,听Professor Irwin & Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science, American Cancer Society. Professor of Molecular Biology, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA, 2018
- ,听The cryoEM revolution in structural biology,听Nobel Laureate 2017 Chemistry,听MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,听Cambridge, UK, 2018
- Prof. Harmit Malik, Rules of engagement: molecular arms races between host and viral genomes, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre Seatle, USA, 2019
- , Neurobiology of yoga and mental health, Director, NIMHANS, Bangalore, India 2020
- , New and Emerging Technologies: Key Drivers of Bioeconomy Growth, 2021
- , Good Governance Builds Great Hospitals, Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 2023
C N R Rao Endowment Lectures
Prof. C. N. R. Rao Endowment Lecture was instituted in 2012 (council meeting minures 14/12/2012) from an endowment of Rs.15 lakhs received from Prof. C. N. R. Rao.聽 The lecture is to be delivered by a leading Indian or Foreign scientist in alternate years.聽 It carries a suitable honorarium and travel.聽 The first lecture was delivered by Prof. George Whitesides of Harvard University on 鈥淩einventing chemistry鈥� in 2013.聽 The most recent and the third lecture was given by Prof. K. Vijayaraghavan of NCBS/DBT in 2016.
- ,听Reinventing Chemistry,听2013
- ,听Emergent Electron Science towards New Energy Revolution,听2013
- , Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, USA, 聽2014.
- , Secretary, DBT, Govt. of India, Distinguished Professor & Former Director of The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), 2016
- ,听Department of Chemistry Stanford University California, 2017
- , UC Presidential Chair, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA, 2017
- , Director, TIFR, Mumbai, Quantum Entanglement, 2019
- , University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020
- , Science: Stone Age to Gen Alpha, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. 2022
- , Historic Discoveries Leading to Quantum Turbulence, 2023
- , 2024
Prof. Roddam Narasimha Endowment Lectures
- , ISRO Honorary Distinguished Professor, VSSC, 2019(notice)
- , Department of Mechanical Engineering, 足球直播澳門, 2020 (notice)
- , Department of聽 Aeronautical Engineering, 足球直播澳門, 2022 (notice)
- , National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, 2023 ()
- , Chairman, Design Division, Aeronautical Society of India, 2024 ()
