TIFR Annual Report, 1983 - 1984

The salt receptor sites on Drosophila were studied; Synaptic transmission in fruit flies was studied; Differentiation in retinal cells in zebrafish, effects of certain enzymes (IAA and cAMP) in moss, Funaria hygrometrica were studied; Collaboration with AIIMS, Delhi human brain cells were studied for tumor antigens( no further information); Collaboration with IISc, Bangalore for the study of Chemosensitivity of Dictyostelium was done; Sex determination studies of Drosophila were conducted in collaboration with IISc, Bangalore; Highlights : P.K.Maitra- Member of Editorial board of Journal of Biotechnology; V.Nanjundaiah- Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences; V.Rodrigues- Young Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences; O.Siddiqi- Fellow of Royal Society of London; Collaboration by U.N.Singh with AIIMS, Delhi; Collaboration by V.Nanjundaiah with N.V.Joshi, H.S.Chandra and R.Gadagkar at IISc, Bangalore; K.VijayRaghavan was on study leave to work at Caltech; R.N.Singh collaborated with N.J.Strausfeld at European Molecular Biology Centre at Heidelberg, Germany.