M.Sc. Microbiology Project Fellow Position – RGCB – Thiruvananthapuram Kerala
Walk – in Interview for Temporary Project Fellow Positions at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Attention Graduates in M.Sc. Microbiology/ Medical Microbiology!
Two Project Fellow positions to work in the flagship program on Emerging Viral Diseases (H1N1 influenza) are open at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), an autonomous institute of excellence in translational biotechnology, fully funded by the Government of India. The positions offer attractive compensations of Rs 10,000 per month plus 20% HRA. The position is initially for one year and can be extended for a maximum of two more years.
Who can apply?
- Candidates must have a minimum qualification of M.Sc. in Microbiology or Medical Microbiology.
- Applicants with post graduates degrees in other branches of Life Sciences plus two years documented working experience in molecular microbiology and/or molecular biology are also eligible.
- The upper age limit is 32 as on December 31, 2009.
How to apply:
Walk – in Interview at RGCB on September 12 (Saturday), 2009 at 9.00 am.
Applicants should bring all certificates and proof of experience.
If there are more than 10 applicants, a preliminary qualifying test will be held. The test if needed will be held at 11 am. Candidates with more than two years documented experience in Molecular Microbiology or Molecular Biology inclusive of PCR techniques will be exempt from the test.
The interview for all short-listed candidates will be held at 2.00 pm on the same day.
Results will be announced the same day at 5.30 pm
Candidates are expected to join on or before September 16, 2009.
For details on interview venue contact:
The Office of the Director, Ph: 0471 2347973 Read more
Biotech Faculty Positions – Regional Centre for Biotechnology – Delhi
Faculty positions opening in Regional Centre for Biotechnology, a newly created institution in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi.
Biotech faculty positions ranging from entry to program coordinator levels are opening at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Delhi. Applicants are evaulated based on their experience, quality of scientific productivity and capacity to generate extramural project-based funding.
About RCB:
The Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) is an institution of excellence established under an agreement with UNESCO for providing world-class education and interdisciplinary research opportunity to Indian and other Asian students and scholars in Biotech sciences. RCB is planning on designing innovative educational programmes that provides research and learning opportunity integrating science, engineering and medicine. Research interests of RCB include Drug Discovery and Systems Biology, Cell and Tissue Engineering, Nano Science and Technology, and Synergy of Information Technology and Advanced Biomaterials. Scientists with research interests in any of the specified domains are encouraged to apply. Read more
Bioinformatics Conference – APBC 2010 – IISc Bengaluru
The Eighth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2010) to be held in Bengaluru, India
Annual forum exploring research, development and novel applications of Bioinformatics is to be held in IISc Bengaluru from January 18th (Monday) to 21st (Thursday), 2010. Researchers, academic and industrial practitioners gather together to discuss the conceptual and practical issues of bioinformatics. Topics of interests include Sequence analysis, Motif search/discovery, RNA analysis, Physical and genetic maps, Evolution and phylogeny, Protein structure analysis, Transcriptome, Proteomics, Ontologies, Population genetics/SNP/Haplotyping and Comparative genomics.
Keynote speakers in the conference are Prof.Daniel Gusfield from University of California- Davis, USA; Prof.Sorin Istrail from Brown University, USA; Dr.Alexey Murzin from MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK and Prof.Pinakpani Chakrabarti from Bose Institute, Kolkatta, India. Read more
Molecular Life Sciences Conference – IBMBB – University of Colombo Sri Lanka
International Conference on Frontiers in Molecular Life Sciences at Colombo, Sri Lanka
Attention Researchers and Students of Molecular Life Sciences!
There is an International Conference on Frontiers in Molecular Life Sciences: Sailing towards New Horizons organized by Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IBMBB), University of Colombia to be held on September 17th (Thursday) and 18th (Friday), 2009.
Highlights of the conference include keynote speech by Prof. Ulf Pettersson from Department of Genetics and Pathology, University of Uppsala, Sweden on Genome Diversity in Health and Disease and Prof. Janet Hemingway from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom on Molecular Mechanism of Insecticide Resistance.