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Author Archives: Chaitanya
Micron-Scale Biological Devices
The advent of micro-fluidics has been a boon to research in biology and medicine. Already many such devices exist in the commercial domain reducing what were a plethora of flasks, transfer processes and reactions at the macroscopic scale (even with … Continue reading
Cycling in Pune
Cycling trails in Pune- 4 to 37 km circuits Where to buy a ride in Pune 1) Surinder Cycles, Karve road, Deccan (near Garware College) Road racers (Bianchi, Trek, Cannondale), hybrids (Schwinn, Hercules, Trek), MTBs (Hercules, Schwinn, Trek, etc…. many … Continue reading
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The new biologists fashion: Bacterial Physiology- Bringing back the old stuff
The “post-antibiotic era” announced by the WHO, which was an update from April-2015 of an older report [1], suggests the need to understand bacteria is urgent as it ever was. We have been sailing the winds of Fleming from his … Continue reading
Posted in Bacterial cell division, Blog, Research
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Bacterial cell division
The heat-stable protein HU was isolated first by Josette Rouviere-Yaniv and Gros in 1975 in a study where they systematically screened using an DNA-binding affinity-purification method for heat-stable proteins from E. coli cell extracts (1). This protein has been implicated … Continue reading
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Tagged bacterial cell division, E. coli, HupA, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, nucleoid
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Image magick
ImageMagick Mogrify: Convert multiple files in a series mogrify -format jpg *.ppm This will convert multiple files in a directory in the PPM format into JPG format. To prevent overwriting old files by accident create a fresh directory. More details … Continue reading
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Google scripting
List of spreadsheet formulae on google-drive
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Random
A short poem by Luis Borges on the Rigor in Science inspires me and encapsulates my lab’s philosophy (whcih I first encountered in the preamble to Rob Philips, Julie Theriot and Jane Kondev’s excellent book on “Physical Biology of the … Continue reading
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Pet physicist
#petphysicist2 is up! Enjoy #petphysicist1: The first in a series. Inspired by discussions with experimental biologists, physicists and close friends. None of the characters are meant to harm any person, animal or idea.
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Survival VI (visual editor)
A simple set of commands you MUST know to use VI (visual editor), the editor that comes bundled with most UNIX/Linux flavoured systems. Basically it has 2 modes- command and edit. Usually you will want to edit something. So you … Continue reading
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Ethics in Science
A superficial reading of popular media on science plagiarism, doctored results, falsification, backstabbing, sabotage appear to suggest that these have spilt over only recently from other hyper-competitive professions. But appearances are deceptive. This (as with many other human traits) has … Continue reading →