John Jumper
Highly Accurate Protein
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Using AI to Solve Biology
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TNQ Distinguished
Lectures
The TNQ Distinguished Lecture Series in the Life Sciences and Mathematics are annual events, and the main outreach programmes organised by TNQ Foundation. These lectures bring life scientists and mathematicians, at the forefront of their fields, to India to deliver lectures in up to three cities each year. Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, New Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad have been venues over the years. The lectures are aimed at inspiring students and researchers to make their careers in creative fundamental research in the life sciences or in pure mathematics.
The lecture series provides an opportunity for members of the life science and mathematics communities to interact face-to-face with each featured speaker. In their lectures, the speakers showcase their current and pathbreaking research to students, researchers, and facultymembers. The speakers visit scientific institutions in the cities where they lecture and have deeper discussions which could lead to collaboration with Indian scientists.
Videos from The Lectures
Highly Accurate Protein Structure Predictions
This year TNQ has been presented with the remarkable opportunity of hosting a second speaker for the TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences – 2024: John Jumper, who along with Demis Hassabis, won three major awards in 2023 – the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Canada Gairdner International Award, and the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.
How We Sense Pain
David Julius, a biochemist and molecular physiologist, and a recipient of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, was the 2024 Featured Speaker of the TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences. His topic was ʻHow We Sense Painʼ.
Marvelous Molecular Motors
Ron Vale, the Vice President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Executive Director of its Janelia Research Campus was the 2023 featured Speaker of the TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences. The 2023 lectures were the 1ˢᵗ edition of Series II of this lecture series. He delivered his lectures in Mumbai, Kolkata, and Bengaluru. This is a recording of his lecture in Mumbai, on 9th January 2023.
News
Latest Blogs
No protein left behind: The ubiquitous formation of cellular condensates
This article highlights research in the paper by one of the finalists of the Inspiring Science Awards 2025. The finalist is Manisha Poudyal, also the first author of the paper.
Order in Chaos: A Strange World of Mathematics Offers Solutions to Chaotic Problems in Physics.
Imagine you are new to baby-sitting. You are tasked to observe two naughty toddlers in a room- to see how they move around and understand what they talk to each other..
Metabolic switch: New evidence in hematopoiesis
This article highlights research in the paper by one of the finalists of the Inspiring Science Awards 2025. The finalist is Anu P V, also the first author of the paper.
Podcasts
The Strange and Wonderful world World of Symplectic...
In this episode of TNQ Distinguished Lectures, Yakov Eliashberg, a recipient of the Heinz Hopf Prize as well as the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, discusses his journey into
Using AI To Solve Biology Problems in Minutes Instead...
In this episode of TNQ Distinguished Lectures, Dr John Jumper, a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize, talks about his work on
How We Sense Pain? Featuring Nobel Laureate...
Highly Accurate Protein Structure Predictions: In this episode of TNQ Distinguished Lectures, Professor David Julius, a physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate, talks about his work on molecular mechanisms
