HONORS and AWARDS

Apurva Sarin
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore(2010)

Aswin Sai Narayan Seshasayee
Ramanujan Fellowship (2011)

Gaiti Hasan
Chaire Joliot” visiting scientist at the ESPCI, ParisTech, CNRS, Paris, April/May (2011)

Jayant Udgaonkar
Prof. G N Ramachandran Gold Medal for Excellence in Biological Sciences and Technology (2011) Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (2011)

K VijayRaghavan
Fellow of TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World(2010)
Doctor of Sciences, honoris causa, University of Edinburgh (2011)
Fellow of Royal Society (2012)

Madhusudhan Venkadesan
WT-DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship (2011)

Mukund Thattai
WT-DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship (2010)
Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention (2011)

R Sowdhamini
Coordinator, Eighth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference in Bangalore (2010)
Bharat Jyoti Award and Glory India Gold Medal (2011)
Indira Gandhi Excellence Award (2012)

Sanjay P Sane
Editor-Frontiers in Neural Circuits (2010-date)
Biology letters (2012- date)

Satyajit Mayor
TWAS Prize in Biology (2010)
EMBO Global Lecturer (2010)
Editorial Board, Journal of Cell Science, 2011-present
Infosys Prize for Life Sciences (2012)

Shachi Gosavi
Ramanujan Fellowship(2010)

Sudhir Krishna
Cambridge Hamied Visiting lectureship(2010)

Sumantra Chatterjee
Elected Vice Chair for the Gordon Research Conference on “The Amygdala in Health and Disease” (2011)
Associate Editor, “Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience” (2010)
Chair, Organizing Committee, Indian-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium (2011)
Member, Annual Meeting Advisory Group, Society for Neuroscience (2010) Member, Professional Development Committee, Society for Neuroscience (2012)
Member, Professional Development Committee, Society for Neuroscience (2012)
Invited to join the Editorial Board of “Journal of Neuroscience Methods” (2011)
Member, Annual Meeting Advisory Group, Society for Neuroscience (2010)

Uma Ramakrishnan
Ramanujan Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2010)
Member, National board for wildlife, Government of India (2010)
Senior Research Visiting Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore (2011)
Outstanding Scientist Award, Department of Atomic Energy (2012)

Upinder S Bhalla
Member, INCF Training Committee(2011-2012)
Member, NeuroML steering committee(2011)
Member, INCF Multiscale Modeling Oversight Committee (2010-2012)
Member, Governing Board, International Neuroinformatics Coordination Facility (2010)
Member, Program Committee, Neuroinformatics Meeting 2011 (Boston, MA).

Vatsala Thirumalai
Wellcome Trust – DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship Award 2010-2015.

Yamuna Krishnan
Wellcome-Trust-DBT Alliance Senior Research Fellowship(2010)
BK Bachhawat International Grant for Young Scientists (2010)
Editorial Advisory Board, ChemBioChem (Wiley Interscience) 2010
YIM-Boston Young Scientist Award(2012)
RNA Society Fellowship(2012)

Obaid Siddiqi
Homi Bhabha Life Time Achievement Award (2011)