The TNQ Distinguished Lectures

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Bonnie Bassler talks about the on the power of bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing.

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Bonnie Bassler on the twists and turns of her career path.

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Research Highlights for the fourth finalist of the TNQ Inspiring Science Awards 2026. The article highlights the work of Simran Rawal, PhD student at TIFR Hyderabad. Article by Christeen Paulson.

Link - https://t.co/eCUdZ56Whh

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Announcing a brand-new podcast series — Inspiring Science!

Tune in to our first episode featuring @saha_shirsha the winner of the TNQ Inspiring Science Awards-2025, who shares her career experience, highlighting the significance of motivation, perseverance and mentoship. Joining her in conversation is @rohinimd25.

Link - https://t.co/u53F2eFxo2

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Presenting Research Highlights for the winning entry of the TNQ Inspiring Science Awards 2026. The third article highlights the work of the winner Aanchal Panchal, formerly a PhD student of IISER Mohali.

Link - https://t.co/pJ6VJOgwyV

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The TNQ Foundation honoured the Inspiring Science Awards finalists, winner and mentors after the TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences. Professor Bonnie Bassler presented the awards.

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Presenting Research Highlights of the award-winning papers of the TNQ Inspiring Science Awards 2026. The second article highlights the work of finalist Vineeth Vengayil, formerly, PhD student of inStem.

Read here: https://t.co/bXpgFhJXxB

✍🏽 - Shweta Yogi

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It was a full house at all three venues of the fourteenth TNQ Distinguished Lectures in Life Sciences by Professor Bonnie Bassler. A wonderful presentation, followed by engaging discussions with students and researchers, will be remembered for the curiosity it sparked and the conversations it inspired.

If you haven't watched the lecture video, here it is: https://t.co/vj0GF1BWq4

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We are happy to share that Professor Bonnie Bassler’s Lecture on A Chemical Language that enables Communication between Diverse Organisms is now live on our website.

Professor Bassler, a Wolf Prize and Canada Gairdner Award laureate, was the featured speaker of the fourteenth TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences. She delivered her Lectures in New Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai in February 2026.

Watch the lecture here: https://t.co/0YQVXihmpt

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Presenting Research Highlights of the award-winning papers of the TNQ Inspiring Science Awards 2026. The first article highlights the work of finalist Shubham Mehatre, PhD of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram.

Read here: https://t.co/lRr6mKsMLT

✍🏽 by Shweta Yogi

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This year, we honoured two scientists with the TNQ Inspiring Science Mentor Awards. Watch the Mentors share their thoughts on the Award.
Link- https://t.co/4x47tTkDvB

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We’re proud to announce Aanchal Panchal @panchal969 as a Winner of the TNQ Inspiring Science Awards 2026.

Her paper, “Fungus-farming termites can protect their crop by confining weeds with fungistatic soil boluses,” was published in the journal Science.

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The TNQ Foundation honours mentors who have contributed four finalists each in the past decade with the TNQ Inspiring Science Mentor Award.

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The eighth finalist is Vivek Hari Sundar Gandhivel @VivekHariSunda1 for his paper “An Oryza-specific histone H4 variant predisposes H4 lysine 5 acetylation to modulate salt stress responses.”

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Congratulations! Here's the study by @ghoshgaurab2011 et al. @PrasadLabIISERK 👉 https://t.co/Mvg6t6CkF3

Spotlight commentary on the work 👉 https://t.co/c1dZ1RsFTl

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The seventh finalist is Shubham Haribhau Mehatre @shubham_mehatre for his paper “A capsular myofibroblastic niche maintains hematopoietic stem cells in the spleen.”

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The fourth finalist is @jotingogoi for his paper “A metal ion mediated functional dichotomy
encodes plasticity during translation quality control.”

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The sixth finalist is Gaurab Ghosh for his paper “Ecdysone regulates phagocytic cell fate of epithelial cells in developing Drosophila eggs.”