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SIDDIQI, Obaid
Elected 1968; Council Service: 1974-91; President: 1986-88;
Vice-President: 1983-85. Hon. Professor, TIFR National Centre
for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
b. 7 January 1932, Basti, Uttar Pradesh
s. M. A. Qadeer Siddiqi and Umme Kulsum
m. Asiya, two s, two d
Edn.: Aligarh Muslim Univ.: MSc. 53; Univ. of Glasgow, UK:
PhD. 61. Career: Aligarh Muslim Univ.: Lecturer 54-57; IARI,
Delhi: Res. Scholar 57-58; Univ. of Glasgow, Dept. of Genetics:
50-61; Cold Spring Harbor Lab., USA: Lallor Foundation Fellow
61; Pennsylva-nia Univ., USA: Post doctoral Fellow 61-62;
TIFR, Bombay, Molec-ular Biology Unit: Fellow, Assoc. Prof.,
Prof., Eminent Professor 62-?; TIFR, National Centre for Biol.
Sc., Bangalore: Director 93 ; Yale Univ., Dept. of Biophysics:
Vis. Associate 66; Cambridge Inst. of Tech., USA: Vis. Prof.
68, 70-71; Gosney Fellow 72-73, Sherman Fairchild, Distinguished
Scholar 81-82, 86; Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research, Banga-lore: Hon. Prof.; National Inst. of Advanced
Studies, Bangalore: Sr. Associate. Fellow, Royal Society of
London, INSA, TWAS, Maha-rashtra Academy of Sc., National
Academy of Sciences. Bhatnagar Award 76; Padma Bhushan 84;
Birla Smarak Kosh National Award 89; Goyal Prize 91; INSA
Aryabhata Medal 92; Aligarh Univ., BHU: DSc. h c. Sc. Work
in Molecular and Behavioural Genetics. Research covers microbial
genetics and genetic neurobiology. With Garen discovered the
suppressor of 'nonsense' mutations, which led to the elucidation
of chain-terminating triplets in protein synthesis. Did some
of the early experiments which show that recombinant bacteria
inherit labelled DNA of biparental origin. At TIFR demonstrated
that DNA transfer can be associated from replication and that
recombinants arise from unreplicated DNA. In early seventies,
turned to behavioural genetics and neurobiology of Drosophila.
Carried out with the group pioneeering work on taste and smell
in the fruitfly, opening up the prospect of integrated genetic
and neurobiological study of chemosensory perception.
TIFR National Centre for Biological Sciences,
GKVK Campus, Bangalore 560 065
Tel. 80-856 1654/2110 (O), 80-341 1372 (R)
Fax 80-856 1662
email: osiddiqi@,ncbs.res.in
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