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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK by Dr. K. Ullas Karanth | Wednesday 15 March 2023 | 1:30 pm | AC 04-005 (LT)
DESCRIPTION:The Archives of Contemporary India and Department of Environmental Studies is delighted to invite you to join us for a Book talk on "Among Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia's Big Cats" by Dr. K. Ullas Karanth\, Founder & Emeritus Director\, Centre for Wildlife Studies\, Bengaluru to be held on Wednesday\, 15 March 2023\, 1:30 PM (IST) at AC04-005 (LT). \nDetails:\nDate: Wednesday\, 15 March 2023\nTitle:  Book Talk on "Among Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia's Big Cats" \nDistinguished Speaker: Dr. K. Ullas Karanth\, Founder & Emeritus Director\, Centre for Wildlife Studies\, Bengaluru\nTime: 1: 30- 2:45 PM (IST)\nVenue : AC04 005 (LT) ;  Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/93427642190?pwd=enBOa09qaHVsY1Qybk1pM2RTWDRMUT09   (Hybrid Mode) \nAbout the book:\nAmong Tigers is a story of the tiger itself — its incredible biology\, its critical role in shaping natural ecosystems of Asia\, and the unique place it holds in our collective imagination. But it is also the story of how we wound up with fewer than five thousand wild tigers\, and how\, with focused efforts\, we can grow that population ten times or more in a few decades. In doing so\, we would not only bring the world's largest and most beloved feline back from the brink but also save countless other species that share the tigers' habitats\, from the freezing forests of Siberia to the tropics of India. Ultimately\, Among Tigers is a roadmap showing us how to not only save the greatest of great cats but also bring it roaring back at numbers never before seen in our lifetimes. \nKota Ullas Karanth was originally trained as a mechanical engineer at the National Institute of Technology\, Surathkal (1971)\, but in order to pursue his deep passion for wildlife biology\, obtained a Master’s degree from the University of Florida\, USA (1988) and a Doctorate from Mangalore University\, India (1993). \nDr. Ullas Karanth is the Emeritus Director of the Centre for Wildlife Studies\, Bengaluru\, which he founded in 1984. He has also served as Country Director (1988-2017) and as a Consultant Senior Scientist (2018-2019) of the Wildlife Conservation Society\, New York. Dr. Karanth is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida\, the University of Minnesota\, and at the TIFR-National Centre Biological Sciences\, Bengaluru. \nDr. Karanth has conducted long-term research on the ecology of tigers\, other predators and their prey in India and other parts of Asia. He has published over 150 scientific papers in prestigious journals as well as numerous popular articles. He has authored/edited/co-edited several books including The Way of the Tiger\, Monitoring Tigers and their Prey\, A view from the Machan\, Tiger Tales\, Camera traps in Animal Ecology\, and Science of Saving Tigers. \nDr. Karanth serves on the World Conservation Union's specialist groups on Cats\, Bears\, Elephants\, Wild Cattle and Small Carnivores. He has served as a member of the Indian Government’s Forest Advisory Committee\, National Tiger Conservation Authority and on the Governing Boards of the Wildlife Institute of India\, WWF-India and the Liz Claiborne Foundation\, New York. He has been active in the conservation arena for five decades. \nHis work has been extensively featured in world’s media including Nature\, Science\, New Scientist\, Scientific American\, New York Times\, Time Magazine\, National Geographic\, BBC\, CNN\, PBS\, CBC\, Discovery and Animal Planet.  \nIn recognition of his contributions to wildlife conservation\, Dr. Karanth won the Sierra Club’s EarthCare award (2006)\, World Wildlife Funds’s J. Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership (2007). He was conferred the Karnataka Rajya Prashashti in 2011\, and Padma Shri by the President of India in 2012.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/book-talk-by-dr-k-ullas-karanth-wednesday-15-march-2023-130-pm-ac-04005-lt/
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SUMMARY:Third Lecture in Ashoka History Spring Seminar 2023
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: \nWe are often told that old ideas won’t do; that we need new ideas and new thinking. But what does it mean for an idea to be new or to engage in new thinking? This talk explores these questions historically. In early modern India\, in disciplines ranging from grammar to poetics\, almost everyone was calling their ideas new. One disciple where newness was very frequently invoked was the philosophical discipline of nyaya-sastra (logic-epistemology). During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries\, philosophers in this discipline used the term ‘new’ in relation to themselves and philosophical arguments. Yet\, they never discussed what this term meant.  \nIn this talk\, I argue that the term ‘new’ was important for nyaya philosophers in early modern India because it carried both intellectual and emotional meanings. In order to show how intellectual and emotional meanings were part of this term\, I discuss novel conclusions held by nyaya philosophers and the circulation of nyaya manuscripts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I argue that\, ultimately\, the merging of intellectual and emotional meanings of the term ‘new’ enabled nyaya philosophers to not only think together but also feel together in the production of philosophical knowledge. And\, on the basis of this knowledge produced by thinking and feeling together\, nyaya philosophers forged a philosophical community in early modern India that valued newness. \nBIO: \nSamuel Wright is Research Fellow at Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and Visiting Professor at Ahmedabad University. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on connections between philosophy and history in early modern South Asia\, particularly in eastern India; time and temporality; and\, increasingly\, the philosophical study of the climate crisis. He is the author of A Time of Novelty: logic\, emotion\, and intellectual life in early modern India\, 1500-1700 CE (Oxford University Press).
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/third-lecture-in-ashoka-history-spring-seminar-2023/
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SUMMARY:Recreating the Cell Division Apparatus: Top-Down meets Bottom-Up
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nCell division (cytokinesis) in many eukaryotes involves the function of an actomyosin based contractile ring. Over the years\, the fission yeast has emerged as an excellent organism for the study of eukaryotic cytokinesis regulatory mechanisms. I will discuss the work carried out in my group on assembly and contraction of the actomyosin contractile ring. I will discuss a combination of methods involving genetics\, advanced imaging\, and reconstitution to understand actomyosin ring assembly. I present evidence for the assembly in vitro of a contraction competent actomyosin ring with only five components. I will also describe our work on cytokinetic ring contraction using an approach in which we have isolated cytokinetic rings that are contraction-competent in vitro. Finally\, I will describe how new approaches such as machine learning and structure prediction are generating paradigm shifts in our understanding of cytokinetic force generation mechanisms. We believe the combination of the approaches we use will help generate an understanding of the process across scales. \nAbout Speaker: \nMohan Balasubramanian is a professor at the the Warwick Medical School and the Director of Institute of Advanced Studies at University of Warwick\, UK .  His Synthetic Cell Biology Lab at Warwick employs techniques spanning cell biology\, biochemistry\, genetics and quantitative light microscopy to investigate and understand mechanisms that govern cell division. Professor Balasubramanian graduated in chemistry from Madras University in India and pursued a post-graduate program in microbiology and Biotechnology in Baroda\, India. He carried out his Doctoral research at the University of Saskatchewan\, Canada\, where he initiated his study of cell division in fission yeast. Following post-doctoral research at Vanderbilt University\, USA\, where he furthered his study of cell division\, he joined the Institute of Molecular Agrobiology Singapore in 1997 and the Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Singapore in 2002. He moved to The University of Warwick\, UK in 2014. 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/recreating-the-cell-division-apparatus-topdown-meets-bottomup/
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SUMMARY:Filament mechanics drives FtsZ ring assembly
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nCytokinesis is the crucial step of physically partitioning the daughter cells after the duplication and segregation of the genetic material. Bacteria assemble a cytokinetic ring called a Z-ring formed the tubulin homologue\, FtsZ. The precise mechanism by which the ring is assembled remains to be completely understood. Traditional mutational approaches have yielded a deep but limited understanding of the Z-ring assembly and is limited by the lethality of the FtsZ mutations in bacteria. We had earlier used a eukaryotic heterologous host Schizosaccharomyces pombe\, to study FtsZ ring assembly and showed that the ring assembles by spooling a linear filament. We have further utilized the system to screen for mutants defective in Z-ring assembly and identified several mutants. In this talk\, I will focus on two mutants that are trapped in a helical conformation and provide insights into the Z-ring assembly process. We show that the mutants trapped in helical conformations are defective in nucleotide hydrolysis and are defective in lateral association of filaments and ring compaction. Together with physical modelling of ring assembly by a treadmilling filament\, our results suggest that Z-ring assembly is driven by torsional stress coupled to treadmilling and lateral association among filaments. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Ramanujam Srinivasan did his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru in 2006 and then went on to do his postdoctoral work with Prof. Mohan Balasubramanian at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and Mechanobiology Institute Singapore. His interests have been in bacterial cell division and cytoskeletal proteins. He is currently at NISER\, Bhubaneswar and his laboratory is interested in understanding plasmid maintenance and bacterial cell division in the enteric bacterium Escherichia coli. \n 
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