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Curriculum vitae
NAME: Dr. (Mrs).Veena Rao
DATE OF BIRTH: 11th July 1951
NATIONALITY: Indian
ADDRESS:
201, “BOMBAY HOUSE”
55 KANAKAPURA ROAD
HOME SCHOOL CIRCLE
BASAVANAGUDI
BANGALORE 560004
INDIA
Phone: 080-26670631 (home), (0)9740427828 (mobile)
E-mail: aneev52@yahoo.co.uk
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
M.B.B.S (1973) Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore, India.
D.G.O (1978) Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore, India..
Best outgoing student in Literary and Cultural activities-of Bangalore Medical college –
1973-74
PRESENT POSITION:
Honorary Adjunct Faculty, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of
Science Campus, Bangalore-560012, India
EXPERIENCE:
a) 2 years of teaching Obstetrics and Gynaecology as a Postgraduate at Vani Vilas
Hospital, Bangalore, India (1976 -1978).
b) 2 years as a Tutor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at St.John's Medical College
Bangalore, India (April 1978 - April 1980).
c) Honorary work at Women's Hospital in Konstanz, Germany (July- August. 1980)
d) Assistant Research Officer in the Institute for Research in Reproduction,
I.C.M.R.Institute, Mumbai (1982).
e) Honorary work at the Cytogenetics Department, Kidwai Institute of Oncology,
Bangalore(1990).
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f) Worked on a Medical Research Project in Human Population Genetics at the
Biochemistry Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1992-93).
g)
Regular monthly contributor for 8 years to the Life Sciences section of "Down to
Earth", an internationally acclaimed periodical, dealing with environmental issues,
published by, the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India.
g) Honorary Research Associate at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian
Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore--560012, India (sFebruary, 2003 to February
2013).
h) Currently working on a project/ book "J.B.S.Haldane's Indian Period," funded by
the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India from October 2003 to October
2007.
2. Talks and presentations at scientific meetings.
a)
Seminar on “J. B. S. Haldane and Reasons for his move to India”, January 2003
at the National Institute of Advanced Studies,IISc Campus Bangalore.
b) Published an article on "Haldane Archives" in Wellcome History, issue 24,
October 2003, pages 12, 13.
c) Talk entitled “J. B. S. Haldane, Ernst Mayr, John Maynard Smith and their
warm relationship”, February 2005 (“Maynard Smith, and Mayr Memorial Seminar”,
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore).
d) Talk on “J. B. S. Haldane and Science in India”, October 2006 (Indian
Institute of World Culture, Bangalore).
e)
Presented a poster on the theme “J. B. S. Haldane's Indian period” at the
Yukawa Centenary Meeting, October 2007, in Kyoto, Japan.(Nishinomiya- Yukawa
International- Interdisciplinary Symposium in Kyoto, Japan)
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f) Two seminars on the topics “The Beanbag Genetics Dispute between E. Mayr
and J. B. S. Haldane” and “J. B. S. Haldane in India”, October 2007 (Department of
Botany, University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan).
h) A talk titled “A Western Scientist in an Eastern Context”: J. B. S. Haldane’s
Contributions to Development of Science in India. Given at a conference on“Circulating, Exchanging and Translating between East and West”: “Colonial and
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Post-Colonial Encounters,” in Halifax, Canada, July 21st - 23rd 2010 at Dalhousie
University.
h) Talk at IISER, Chandigarh, India, on 31st October 2012: “..... plenty of things can
be done here that can’t be done in London or Long Island.”
“A Western Scientist in an Eastern Context”: J. B. S. Haldane in India
i) Talk at 36th Indian Social Science Congress, KIIT University, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa
December 27-31st, 2012.
“.. plenty of things can be done here that can’t be done in London or Long Island”:
A Western Scientist in an Eastern Context: J. B. S. Haldane in India
3. Publications
a) Rao, Veena, “Haldane Archives” (Wellcome History, 24: 12-13, October 2003)
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b) Rao, Veena and Nanjundiah, Vidyanand (2011). “J. B. S. Haldane, Ernst Mayr
and the Beanbag Genetics Dispute.” Journal of the History of Biology 44: 233281.
c) Rao, Veena (2013, in press). “A Western Scientist in an Eastern Context: J. B. S.
Haldane’s Involvement in Indian Science,” Proceedings of the Halifax conference
organised by “Situating Science”, July 21-23 2010 at the University of King’s
College, Halifax, Canada (Brill).