Central University of Jharkhand has been granted funds by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India to establish “DBT-Boost to CUJ Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Departments for Education and Research” Applications are invited for the Assistant Professor on purely temporary basis. The appointments shall be initially for a period of one year, renewable every year depending on the satisfactory performance, till the end of project.

Position: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Total 03)
Salary: 45,000/- (fixed) per month
Essential Qualifications: i. Good academic record with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed) at the master’s degree level with specialization in Biodiversity and Systematic/ Systems Biology/ Biophysics/ Bioinformatics from an Indian University, or an equivalent degree from an accredited foreign university. ii. Besides fulfilling the above qualifications, the candidates must have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the UGC, CSIR or similar test accredited by the UGC like SLET/SET. iii. Notwithstanding anything contained in i. and ii. candidates, who are or have been awarded Ph.D Degree in accordance with the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of Ph.D. Degree) Regulation, 2009, shall be exempted from therequirement of the minimum eligibility condition of NET/SLET/SET for recruitment and appointment of Assistant Professor. iv. NET/SLET/SET shall also not be required for such disciplines for which NET/SLET/SET in not conducted.
Desirable: Preference will be given to candidates having Ph.D in any of the above mentioned areas with NET

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER :

Last Date to Apply for this job 24/3/2015

REFERENCE:

Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) Recruitment 2015 – Advt. No.: CUJ/Advt./14-15/15 Date: 26th Feb. 2015.

More at http://cuj.ac.in/careers.php

Genobuntu is a software package containing more than 70 software and packages oriented towards NGS. In its current version, Genobuntu supports pre assembly tools, genome assemblers as well as post assembly tools.

Commonly used biological software and example script files for different assembly pipelines have also been provided, where the example script files can be updated to suit one’s experimental needs. Genobuntu attempts to reduce the amount of time and energy needed to build software workstations and it can also act as a good teaching source for a class room setting.

Therefore, Genobuntu offers a well-tailored environment for both novices and experts working in the field of genome assembly.

Address of the bookmark: https://sourceforge.net/projects/genobuntu/

http://molbiolabccsumrt.webs.com/

Applications are invited for one post of RA in a DBT funded research project “Creation of Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) for the promotion of Biology Teaching through Bioinformatics (BTBI) Scheme of BTISet”.

Candidate should have a Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics/Biotechnology/Genetics and Plant Breeding with adequate experience in the area of Bioinformatics. If a suitable candidate for the post of RA is not available, a JRF/SRF may be appointed.

Candidate for the post of JRF/SRF should have Master’s degree in relevant subject with adequate experience in the area of Bioinformatics and should be NET/DBT-BINC qualified

Interested candidates may send their bio-data to Prof. H. S. Balyan (hsbalyan@gmail.com) (in exceptional case, bio-data may also be submitted at the time of interview) and attend the interview on Monday, March 30, 2015 at 11:00 AM in the Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut. Candidates shall bring their original documents at the time of interview for verification. No interview letters will be issued and no TA/DA will be paid.

Mitofinder is a pipeline to assemble mitochondrial genomes and annotate mitochondrial genes from trimmed read sequencing data.

MitoFinder is also designed to find and annotate mitochondrial sequences in existing genomic assemblies (generated from Hifi/PacBio/Nanopore/Illumina sequencing data...)

MitoFinder is distributed under the license.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/RemiAllio/MitoFinder

Address of the bookmark: https://www.encodeproject.org/data-standards/reference-sequences/

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

No. NITW/Bio/ Date: 30th March 2015

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Applications are invited for the post of Project Fellow (Research Staff) for the project entitled ‘Metagenome derived nitroreductases for degradation of nitro compounds’ sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DST-INSPIRE), Govt. of India.

Position: Project Fellow (1 No.)

Project Duration: 5 years

Note: The post is purely on temporary basis for a period one year and may be extendable till the end of the project based on the progress of the candidate.

Emoluments: Rs. 14,000/- per month (Consolidated) for first two years and Rs. 16,000/- per month (Consolidated) for next three years.

Essential Qualifications:

i) First class in M.Tech/M.S (Biotechnology/Industrial Biotechnology/Bioinformatics) or equivalent. Or

ii) First class in M.Sc. (Biotechnology/Bioinformatics/Biochemistry/ Microbiology/Molecular biology).

Desirable Qualification: Preference will be given to candidates who have cleared NET/GATE or having prior work experience in Molecular biology/Bioinformatics sequence analysis.

Interested candidates may submit their application in plain paper along with Curriculum Vitae and photocopies of certificates in support of educational/professional qualifications. Application should be sent in a closed cover with a superscription on the cover “Application for the post of project fellow (DST-INSPIRE)” on or before 20.04.2015 (Monday) via Post to the Principal Investigator. Eligible candidates will be intimated through e-mail and called for interview at the Department of Biotechnology, NIT, Warangal. No TA/DA will be paid for attending the interview. Dr. K. Divakar (Principal Investigator) DST-INSPIRE Faculty Department of Biotechnology National Institute of Technology Warangal – 506 004. Telangana, India. E-mail: divakar@nitw.ac.in; kdivak@gmail.com

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Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/cschin/Peregrine

The engagement is purely temporary on contractual basis and co-terminus with the project. There will be no provision of absorption of absorption/reemployment in IVRI/DBT on termination of the project.

No TA/DA will be provided for appearing in the interview and no separate letter will be issued.

A. Name tile of the project: “Centre for Agricultural bioinformatics (CABin)”.

B. Position/post to be filled: Research Associate (one)

C. Essential/Desirable qualifications:

•Essential: M.V.Sc./M.Tech./MSc Degree in Biotechnology/ Biochemistry/ Microbiology/Immunology/Bioinformatics/Genetics/Life Sciences or

Masters in Computer Application/ Masters in Computer science with first division.

• Desirable: Experience in cell culture, next generation sequencing, C++ and perl programming. NET/GATE qualified will be preferred.

• Experience : At least 2 years

D. Emoluments: Rs. 23000/- per month + 20% HRA

E. Age Limit: Maximum 40 years for men and 45 years for women

F. Duration of the project: Up to March 2017

G. Name of PI/Contact person: Dr. G.V.P.P.S. Ravi Kumar, Sr. Scientist, Division of Veterinary Biotechnology.

H. Address for correspondence: Dr. G.V.P.P.S. Ravi Kumar, Sr. Scientist, Computational Biology and Genomics facility,Division of Veterinary Biotechnology, I.V.R.I., Izatnagar – 243122

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Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/martinjvickers/KAST

1. “Development of bioinformatics methods for identifying novel secondary metabolites by genome mining” funded by DBT

JRF (P)/SRF (P) (One Position only)

Dr. Debasisa Mohanty Staff Scientist-VI deb@nii.res.in

Educational Qualifications: JRF (Project): M.Sc (Bioinformatics/ Biophysics/Biotechnology or any other stream of biological/physical sciences) or M.Tech. (Bioinformatics/Biotechnology/Computational Sciences) of M. Pharm.

SRF (Project): M.Sc (Bioinformatics/Biophysics/Biotechnology or any other stream of biological/physical sciences) or M.Tech. (Bioinformatics/Biotechnology/Computational Sciences) of M. Pharm with atleast 03 years of research experience.

Desirable Qualifications: Strong computer programming skills (in PERL/CGI/PHP or C++ or object oriented database management systems like MySQL etc or scripting languages under LINUX/UNIX environment) and sufficient experience in computational analysis of biological/biochemical data.

The candidates must highlight their experience in programming and database development in their CV. Job description: Computational analysis of genomes and development of bioinformatics tools and software’s for sequence and structure based analysis of biosynthetic pathways.

Emoluments: The selected candidates will draw consolidated emoluments as per Institute Rules, depending upon qualifications & experience JRF (Project): Rs. 12,000/- per month plus 30% HRA SRF (Project): Rs. 14,000/- per month plus 30% HRA (*Candidates possessing qualifications as per latest DST OM, will be given revised scales).

More at http://www1.nii.res.in/sites/default/files/projectappointments-Dr.DebasisaMohanty-30April2015.pdf