Women in Science
- Faculty for the Future Fellowships Deadline 08th November 2024
- American Association of University Women | International Fellowships: Deadline 15th November 2024
- Women in Space and Allied Sciences Leadership Program (WiSLP) Deadline 20th December 2024
- Biotechnology Career Advancement and Re-Orientation (Biocare) Programme for Women Researchers” for 2024-25: Deadline 31st December 2024
- WISE Internship in IPR (WISE-IPR): Deadline 15th January 2025
- IGSTC Women Involvement in Science and Engineering Research (WISER): Deadline open throughout the year
- DST Gender Advancement for Transforming Institutions (GATI), KIRAN Division: To be announced.
- WIDUSHI (Women's Instinct for Developing and Ushering in Scientific Heights & Innovations):Deadline Open throughout the year
- WISE Post-Doctoral Fellowship (WISE-PDF):Deadline Open throughout the year
- Women in Science Lectures:Deadline Open throughout the year
- WISE-SCOPE Fellowship:Deadline Open throughout the year
- Technology Development and Utilization Programme for Women (TDUPW):Deadline Open throughout the year
- Computer Science Research Conference Scholarships:Deadline Open throughout the year (Kindly check deadlines according to conference dates)
- WISE-PhD Programme:Deadline Open Throughout the year
Prof. Kavita is a recipient of the India Alliance Intermediate and Senior Fellowships in 2012 and 2020 respectively. She was awarded the IYBA award, the DBT-Janaki Ammal Woman Bioscientist Award, the BK Bachhawat travel Award as well as multiple grants like DBT grant, MoE-STARS grant and the SERB-POWER grant.
Prof. Kavita Babu
Associate Professor and India Alliance Senior Fellow, Centre for Neuroscience, IISc.
Prof. Kavita Babu’s lab is interested in understanding how neurons “talk” to other neurons and to the muscles that are controlled by neurons. We are interested in understanding the signaling mechanisms underlying neuronal communication through both neuropeptides and cell surface molecules. To study neuronal crosstalk, she employ the small free-living nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans or C. elegans for short. Using this organism that has only 302 neurons she can employ molecular, genetic and behavioral methods to study neuropeptidergic signaling between neurons as well as the signaling role of cell adhesion molecules like claudins at the neuromuscular junction.
Some of the ongoing projects in her lab include:
a) Signaling role of cell adhesion molecules at the synapse. For this project she largely focus on how a class of molecules called claudins allow for normal synaptic function.
b) Understanding how neurons communicate with each other using neuropeptides and how these neuropeptide-based circuits allow the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to modulate locomotion.
c) More recent work involves looking at molecular and development aspects of long-term memory using Caenorhabditis elegans as the model of choice.
Women Scientists at the Institute
Women and the Institute
Students outside the first women’s hostel at IISc, C. 1945. (L-R) Rajeswari Chatterjee, Roshan Irani, M Premabai, Miriam George and Violet D’Souza. Archives and Publications Cell, IISc
