TNQ Distinguished Lectures
TNQ Distinguished Lectures is a series that aims to bring internationally renowned scientists face-to-face with the Indian scientific community. The podcast is in the form of an interview of each year’s speaker by a well-known Indian science journalist, Dr Ramaseshan Ramachandran.
Podcasts
A Chemical Language that enables Communication between Diverse Organisms’
In this episode of TNQ Distinguished Lectures, Professor Bonnie Bassler, a molecular biologist and Wolf Prize and Canada Gairdner Award Laureate, talks about her work in quorum sensing – a process of cell-to-cell communication in bacteria. We learn about how she was part of the revolutionary discovery of quorum sensing that challenged the 500-year-old dogma that bacteria are simple, solitary creatures, and how her work can potentially lead to new treatments for bacterial infections and novel ways to control harmful bacteria.
The Strange and Wonderful world World of Symplectic...
In this episode of TNQ Distinguished Lectures, Yakov Eliashberg, a recipient of the Heinz Hopf Prize as well as the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, discusses his journey into
Using AI To Solve Biology Problems in Minutes Instead...
In this episode of TNQ Distinguished Lectures, Dr John Jumper, a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize, talks about his work on
How We Sense Pain? Featuring Nobel Laureate...
Highly Accurate Protein Structure Predictions: In this episode of TNQ Distinguished Lectures, Professor David Julius, a physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate, talks about his work on molecular mechanisms