BENGALURU: LS Shashidhara is the new director of National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), replacing Satyajit Mayor.
Until recently, Shashidhara was a professor of biology at IISER Pune and continues to be honorary professor at Ashoka University. He specialised in genetics, molecular biology and evolutionary biology. He did his UG and PG studies in genetics and plant breeding at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, and studied the regulation of chlorophyll biosynthesis for his PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK.
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