The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for year 2020 in Biological Sciences has been awarded to Dr Vatsala Thirumalai of National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru for her fundamental discoveries exploring communication and modulation of neuronal function, uncovering how single cerebellar neurons alter computation in the circuitry that generates neural commands for movement.