Obaid siddiqi biography books

Indian geneticist (–)

Obaid SiddiqiFRS (7 January &#;– 26 July ) was an Indian National Research Professor and the Founder-Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) National Center for Biological Sciences.

He made seminal contributions to the field of behavioural neurogenetics using the genetics and neurobiology of Drosophila.

Early life and education

Obaid Siddiqi was born in in Basti district of Uttar Pradesh.

He received his early education at Aligarh Muslim University where he completed his MSc^[1] He completed his PhD at the University of Glasgow, under the supervision of Guido Pontecorvo. He carried out his post doctoral research at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and University of Pennsylvania.^[2] He was invited by Homi Bhabha to set up the molecular biology unit at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Bombay in Thirty years later, he became the founding director of the TIFR National Center for