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{{Infobox scientist
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| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Computational neuroscience]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[National Centre for Biological Sciences]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[California Institute of Technology]] | [[University of Cambridge]] }}
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| known_for = Computational and experimental studies on neuronal and Synaptic signalling
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'''Upinder Singh Bhalla''' (born 1963) is an Indian [[computational neuroscientist]], academic and a professor at [[National Centre for Biological Sciences]] of the [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]].<ref name="The Code Breaker: Upinder S. Bhalla">{{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/indian-scientists-at-forefront-of-research-upinder-s.-bhalla/1/150707.html | title=The Code Breaker: Upinder S. Bhalla | work=India Today | date=10 September 2011 | access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref> He is known for his studies on neuronal and [[Synaptics|synaptic]] signalling in memory and [[olfactory]] coding using computational and experimental methods<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=109 | title=Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |year=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> and is an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="Fellow profile - Bhalla">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Bhalla,_Prof._Upinder_Singh | title=Fellow profile – Bhalla | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |year=2016 | access-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> and the [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref name="Indian fellow">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P10-1506 | title=Indian fellow | publisher=Indian National Science Academy |year=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2007, for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |year=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> The Infosys Science Foundation<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/|title=Infosys Prize|website=infosys-science-foundation.com|access-date=1 December 2017}}</ref> awarded him the Infosys Prize 2017 in Life Sciences for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of the brain's computational machinery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2017/upinder-bhalla.asp|title=Infosys Prize – Laureates 2017 – Prof. Upinder S. Bhalla|website=infosys-science-foundation.com|access-date=1 December 2017}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Upinder S. Bhalla, born in the Indian capital of Delhi to an academic couple who were professors at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]], enrolled himself at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] for an integrated master's program but discontinued his studies at IITK after one year to join [[Cambridge University]] from where he graduated in natural sciences.<ref name="The Code Breaker: Upinder S. Bhalla" /> Subsequently, he secured a PhD under the guidance of [[James M. Bower]] from [[California Institute of Technology]] in 1993 and did his post doctoral studies at the laboratory of [[Ravi Iyengar]] at [[Mount Sinai School of Medicine]].<ref name="Upinder Singh Bhalla on Neurotree">{{cite web | url=http://neurotree.org/beta/peopleinfo.php?pid=4931 | title=Upinder Singh Bhalla on Neurotree | publisher=Neurotree |year=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref> Returning to India, he joined [[National Centre for Biological Sciences]], a [[Bengaluru]]-based biological research centre of [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] where he became an assistant professor in 2002 and an associate professor in 2003, before becoming a professor in 2012.<ref name="Upinder Singh Bhalla on Vidwan">{{cite web | url=https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/13176 | title=Upinder Singh Bhalla on Vidwan | publisher=Vidwan |year=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref> He heads a laboratory at NCBS where he hosts a number of research associates, post-doctoral fellows and doctoral students who are involved in the research on Memory and [[Plasticity (brain)|Plasticity]] through computational and experimental methods.<ref name="Lab members">{{cite web | url=https://www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/bhalla-lab-members | title=Lab members | publisher=National Centre For Biological Sciences |year=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Bhalla's research has widened our understanding of memory functioning and he has contributed to understanding the neural coding of olfactory information.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |year=1999 | access-date=5 October 2016 | pages=34}}</ref> His team at NCBS uses [[optogenetic]] techniques for monitoring brain cell activity and uses light to stimulate the activity.<ref name="Computational and Experimental approaches to Memory and Plasticity">{{cite web | url=https://www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/bhalla | title=Computational and Experimental approaches to Memory and Plasticity | publisher=National Centre for Biological Sciences |year=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref> Bhalla and his colleagues developed ''MOOSE'' (Multiscale Object-Oriented Simulation Environment), a simulation tool which helps build computer models of molecules and molecular networks.<ref name="Contact US">{{cite web | url=https://moose.ncbs.res.in/?q=people | title=Contact US | publisher=Moose.ncbs |year=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref> He has mentored several research scholars in their doctoral and post-doctoral studies<ref name="Upinder Singh Bhalla on Neurotree" /><ref name="Sachin Deshmukh">{{cite web | url=http://www.wellcomedbt.org/fellowsprofile/dr-sachin-deshmukh-173 | title=Sachin Deshmukh | publisher=Wellcome Trust |year=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref> and is a member of the council of the Indian National Science Academy.<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{cite web | url=http://textlab.io/doc/1169687/the-year-book-2016---indian-national-science-academy | title=INSA Year Book 2016 | publisher=Indian National Science Academy |year=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016 | pages=11 of 337}}</ref>

== Awards and honours ==
Bhalla received the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] in 2007 for his contributions to Biological Sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees" /> The same year, the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] elected him as their fellow.<ref name="Fellow profile - Bhalla" /> Three years later, he also became an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref name="Indian fellow" /> In 2017, he received the Infosys Prize in Life Sciences for the excellent work he has been doing for the last two decades which is now not only nationally but internationally recognised as one of the fundamental ways of how we study the role of olfaction in behaviour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2017/upinder-bhalla.asp|title=Infosys Prize – Laureates 2017 – Prof. Upinder S. Bhalla|website=infosys-science-foundation.com|access-date=1 December 2017}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{cite journal | title=Trafficking Motifs as the Basis for Two-Compartment Signaling Systems to Form Multiple Stable States | author=Upinder Singh Bhalla | journal=Biophys. J. | date=July 2011 | volume=101 | issue=1 | pages=21–32 | doi=10.1016/j.bpj.2011.05.037| pmc=3127183 | pmid=21723811| bibcode=2011BpJ...101...21B }}
* {{cite journal | title=Robust and Rapid Air-Borne Odor Tracking without Casting |vauthors=Bhattacharyya U, Bhalla US | journal=eNeuro | date=December 2015 | volume=2 | issue=6 |pages=ENEURO.0102–15.2015 | doi=10.1523/ENEURO.0102-15.2015| pmc=4674010 | pmid=26665165}}
* {{cite journal | title=NSDF: Neuroscience Simulation Data Format |vauthors=Ray S, Chintaluri C, Bhalla US, Wójcik DK | journal=Neuroinformatics | date=April 2016 | volume=14 | issue=2 | pages=147–67 | doi=10.1007/s12021-015-9282-5| pmc=4823348 | pmid=26585711}}
* {{cite journal | title=Bulbar microcircuit model predicts connectivity and roles of interneurons in odor coding |vauthors=Gilra A, Bhalla US | journal=PLOS ONE | date=May 2015 | volume=10 | issue=5 | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0098045 | pages=e0098045 | pmid=25942312 | pmc=4420273|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1098045G }}
* {{cite journal | title=Olfactory bulb coding of odors, mixtures and sniffs is a linear sum of odor time profiles |vauthors=Gupta P, Albeanu DF, Bhalla US | journal=Nat. Neurosci. | date=February 2015 | volume=18 | issue=2 | pages=272–81 | doi=10.1038/nn.3913|pmid=25581362 |s2cid=205437247 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Transcription control pathways decode patterned synaptic inputs into diverse mRNA expression profiles |vauthors=Jain P, Bhalla US | journal=PLOS ONE | date=May 2014 | volume=9 | issue=5 | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0095154 | pages=e95154 | pmid=24787753 | pmc=4006808|bibcode=2014PLoSO...995154J }}
* {{cite journal | title=Molecular computation in neurons: a modeling perspective | author=Bhalla US | journal=Curr Opin Neurobiol | date=April 2014 | volume=25 | pages=31–7 | pmid=24709598 | doi=10.1016/j.conb.2013.11.006| s2cid=22243389 }}
* {{cite journal | title=CA1 cell activity sequences emerge after reorganization of network correlation structure during associative learning |vauthors=Modi MN, Dhawale AK, Bhalla US | journal=eLife | date=March 2014 | volume=3 | doi=10.7554/eLife.01982 | pages=e01982| pmc=3964823 | pmid=24668171}}
* {{cite journal | title=Multiscale modeling and synaptic plasticity | author=Bhalla US | journal=Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci | series=Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science | year=2014 | volume=123 | pages=351–86 | doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-397897-4.00012-7| pmid=24560151 | isbn=9780123978974 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Precise excitation-inhibition balance controls gain and timing in the hippocampus | author=Bhatia A, Moza S, Bhalla US| journal=eLife | year=2019 | volume=8 | doi=10.7554/eLife.43415 | pmid=31021319 | pmc=6517031}}

== See also ==
* [[James M. Bower]]
* [[Ravi Iyengar]]
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== Notes ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIzTUkn0NbM | title=Upinder Bhalla presents Multiscale Object Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) | work=Computer demo at INCF Congress 2012, Munich, Germany | publisher=INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics | date=17 September 2012 | access-date=25 October 2016}}
* {{cite web | url=https://www.labome.org/expert/india/national/bhalla/upinder-s-bhalla-278165.html | title=Upinder S Bhalla on Labome | work=Validated Antibody Database | publisher=Labome |year=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016}}
* {{cite web | url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Bhalla=3AUpinder_Singh=3A=3A.html | title=Browse by Fellow | work=Articles of Upinder S Bhalla | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |year=2016 | access-date=25 October 2016}}
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/photo/profile-of-top-25-scientists-in-india-366262-2011-09-11 |title=Profile of Top 25 scientists in India |date=11 September 2011 |website=India Today |access-date=17 January 2018}}

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