Temporary positions at JNU, New Delhi

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
NEW DELHI

Jawaharlal Nehru University has been granted funds by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India to initiate an Inter-School programme in JNU to strengthen training and research called “DBT-Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-Interdisciplinary Life Science Programme for Advanced Research and education” with the broad project area entitled “From Molecules to Systems: Exploring biological space using chemical and synthetic biology” cutting across Physical, Chemical and Biological Sciences.

Applications are invited for the following purely temporary posts at various levels in the various Group projects for Research, Technical, laboratory and office management positions. The project is upto March 2017, but the appointments shall be initially for a period of one year, renewable every year depending on the performance of project staff:

Group 1:

A) Project title: Studying Plant Immunity

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow-Organic Chemistry (1)

Qualifications: Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry with experience in separation techniques including HPLC, GC-MS and experience in analytical characterization of organic samples by IR, UV-visible, NMR and Mass spectroscopy.

The postdoctoral fellow is expected to synthesize chemical analogues, inject them in some parts of the plants and then study the mobility, stability and role in potentiating plant's immune response including infection memory formation. The research work will involve synthesis of chemical analogues of small organic molecules and study of their role in inducing plant immune responses. Several small organic molecules are reported to be potential mobile signal that are generated upon pathogen infection in plants, move throughout plants body and help in generation of infection memory in plants.

(Investigators: Dr. Ashis K. Nandi, School of Life Sciences and Dr. Pritam Mukhopadhyay, School of Physical Sciences).

Salary:      Rs. 24600/- pm consolidated

B) Project title: Mechanism of regulation of fungal infection

Position: Junior Research Fellows (1)

Essential qualifications: M.Sc. in life sciences/Molecular biology/Microbiology/ Biotechnology/ Biophysics.

Desirable qualifications: Experience and practical knowledge of basic molecular biology tools including cloning, PCR, RNA isolation etc and/or practical experience in protein purification and biophysical characterization (SDS-PAGE, Western Blots, CD spectroscopy etc)

(Investigator: Dr. S. S. Komath,School of Life Sciences)

C) Project title: Studies on neuro-protective function of SG2NA

Position: Junior Research Fellow: (1)

Essential qualifications:  M.Sc or equivalent degree in Zoology, Biotechnology, Life Sciences or related fields.

Desirable qualifications: Candidates who have some additional work experience in Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology will be preferred.

(Investigator: Prof. S. K. Goswami)

For JRF’s Salary:        Rs. 12000+20% HRA

Group 2:

Project: Structure, function, and dynamics of biomolecules and molecular engineering

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow (1)

Essential Qualifications: PhD in Science in the area of Computational Biology, Structural Biology , Molecular Dynamics & Simulation and Systems Biology , reflected by publication of papers during PhD and/or Post doctoral experience.

Desirable Qualifications:  Computational methods and designing experience in the field of Structure based or ligand based drug design, Chemoinformatics, Programming capabilities as required for developing tools in the computational & systems Biology.

(Investigator: Prof. Indira Ghosh, School of Computational & Integrative Sciences)

Salary:      Rs. 24600/- pm consolidated

Group 3:

Project: Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow (1)

Essential Qualifications: PhD in Metabolic Engineering/Bioprocess technology with working experience of Molecular Biology techniques, gene knock-in, knock–out strategies, Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling, Process analytical techniques (PAT) Platform with online monitoring of bioprocess, mathematical modeling and data processing related to bioprocesses

(Investigator: Prof. K. J. Mukherjee, School of Biotechnology)

Salary:      Rs. 24600/- pm consolidated

Position: Junior Research Fellow (1)

Essential Qualifications: M.Sc./B.Tech in Biotechnology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics, etc with experience in molecular biology, fermentation, purification.

Salary:      Rs. 12000+20% HRA

(Note: Revised emoluments shall be payable if Educational Qualifications or Eligibility Criteria as per DST OM No. A.20020/11/97-IFD dated 31-03-2010 are met by the research personnel)

Positions for Support Staff:

Technical assistants: (2)

Qualifications<: M.Sc./B.Tech./MCA in any of the Science/technology subjects with an aptitude to handle modern equipments used in Bio-science research. For one of the positions, experience in maintenance and handling of computers and the use of various softwares would be desirable.

For both the positions, the candidate should be capable of record keeping, scientific report preparation and taking care of office work. Experience in the field will be preferred.

Salary: Rs. 18000/- pm consolidated

Technical assistant: (1)

Qualifications: Master’s degree in any subject with experience in project management, Scientific report preparation, record keeping, computer proficiency and handling office related work.

Additional experience related to purchase of scientific equipment and their maintenance would be desirable but not essential. Candidates with a Bachelor’s degree and having at least 3 yrs experience in the above areas could also be considered.

Laboratory Assistants: (2)

Essential Qualification: 10^th/12^th pass

Desirable Qualification: For 10^th pass required experience in a lab should be at least 3 yrs and for 12^th pass required experience in a lab should be at least 2 yrs. For one of the positions, experience in animal handling and lab related work is required. For the second position experience in work related to a Life science/Biotechnology laboratory is required.

Salary: Rs. 10000/- pm consolidated

Office Assistant: (1)

Essential Qualification:  12^th Pass

Desirable Qualifications:The candidate should be capable of record keeping, typing using Computer tools, scientific report preparation and taking care of day to day office work. Experience in the area will be preferred. Candidates with a Bachelor’s degree would be preferred.

Salary: Rs. 8000/- pm consolidated

The applications on plain paper indicating name, date of birth/age, address, essential / technical / professional qualifications, experience, research work, should reach the Programme Coordinator on or before 10^th July 2012 at the following address:

The Envelop should be marked for the position applied and the Group No. where applicable. Any clarifications regarding projects may be sought from the respective project investigators as mentioned.

Address for correspondence:

Prof. Rajiv Bhat
Programme Coordinator
DBT-JNU BUILDER programme
School of Biotechnology
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110067

FOR DETAILS, PLEASE REFER http://www.jnu.ac.in/Career/currentjobs.htm