Developmental Biology Group, MACS-Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India.
Int J Dev Biol. 2020;64(1-2-3):41-44. doi: 10.1387/ijdb.200147sg.
The formal teaching of developmental biology in India began in the late nineteen-fifties at the Department of Zoology of the University of Poona. This was due to the efforts of Leela Mulherkar, who on her return from C.H. Waddington's laboratory in Edinburgh, took up the teaching of embryology at the Master's level. Mulherkar began using locally available material to teach how animals develop. They included the embryos of chicken, frog, garden lizard and molluscs, as well as organisms such as hydra and sponges. Her teaching was supported by an active research laboratory that used all these systems to address a variety of questions in embryology and teratology. She used chick embryo explants cultured in vitro extensively in her work. Teaching and research in embryology at the master's and doctoral levels at Poona University subsequently led, in 1977, to the establishment of the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB), which is among the most active scientific societies in India.
印度的发育生物学正规教学始于 20 世纪 50 年代后期，在浦那大学的动物学系。这要归功于 Leela Mulherkar 的努力，她从爱丁堡的 C.H. Waddington 实验室回来后，在硕士阶段开始教授胚胎学。Mulherkar 开始使用当地可用的材料来教授动物如何发育。这些材料包括鸡、青蛙、花园蜥蜴和软体动物的胚胎，以及水螅和海绵等生物。她的教学得到了一个活跃的研究实验室的支持，该实验室使用所有这些系统来解决胚胎学和畸形学中的各种问题。她在工作中广泛使用体外培养的鸡胚外植体。浦那大学在硕士和博士水平上的胚胎学教学和研究随后导致了 1977 年印度发育生物学家协会（InSDB）的成立，该协会是印度最活跃的科学协会之一。
