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FACULTY POSITION at NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROURKELA

Sun, 05 Oct 2014 15:45:13 -0500

NIT, Rourkela, an institute of national importance under Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India invites applications from Indian nationals possessing excellent academic background along with commitment to quality teaching and research for faculty positions at the level of Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor in most branches of Engineering, Science, Management and Humanities as per following table:-

1 Asst. Professor (on Pre-Ph.D. Contract)

2 Asst. Professor (on Contract)

3 Asst. Professor

4 Associate Professor

5 Professor

Life Sciences:-

i)Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; ii)Cell and Developmental Biology; iii)Immunology and Molecular Medicine; (iv) Microbiology and Ecology (v)Bioinformatics Group; vi)Biophysical Sciences

HOW TO APPLY:-

a. Candidates willing to apply for one or more posts are requested to apply online at “http://www.nitrkl.ac.in/ JOBS & TENDERS /Faculty Position” .
b. Persons employed in Government and Semi-Government organizations may apply directly against the standing advertisement. For this the application should be completed online. The printout of the application generated online should be submitted through employer if shortlisted for interview.
c. The online application can be filled in multiple sessions.
d. Candidates are required to check the Institute website from time to time for latest information, application status call for interview, change of dates and final results.
e. Applications shall be received online only. Please do not send application or CV against this advertisement by email or letter mail.

More Info: http://nitrkl.ac.in/Jobs_Tenders/1FacultyPosition/Default.aspx

Does anyone have Nanopore latest updates?

Poonam Mahapatra — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:19:29 -0500

There was a lot of buzz about Oxford Nanopore Technologies® is developing the GridION™ system and miniaturised MinION™ device. These are a new generation of electronic molecular analysis system for use in scientific research, personalised medicine, crop science, security/defence and more. The platform technology uses nanopores to analyse single molecules including DNA/RNA and proteins. With a broad patent portfolio, the Oxford Nanopore pipeline includes biological nanopores and solid-state nanopores.

Is this available, or still under trial mode?

https://www.nanoporetech.com/

https://www.nanoporetech.com/technology/the-minion-device-a-miniaturised-sensing-system/the-minion-device-a-miniaturised-sensing-system

Software developed in pevsner lab

Robert M Willioms — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:41:26 -0500

DRAGON: Database Referencing of Array Genes Online

SNOMAD: Standardization and Normalization of Microarray Data

SNPduo: SNP Analysis Between Two Individuals

SNPtrio: Analyzing and Visualizing and Inheritance Patterns in Trios

SNPscan: Data Analysis and Visualization of SNP Data

pediSNP: Analyze SNP Data From a Pedigree of Two Generations

kcoeff: Calculate Cotterman Coefficients of SNP Genotype Data

triPOD: Detects chromosomal abnormalities in parent-child trio-based microarray data

Address of the bookmark: http://pevsnerlab.kennedykrieger.org/php/?q=software

320000 viruses in mammals yet to sequenced in future!!!

Rahul Agarwal — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:35:30 -0500

With current biological technique improvements, finally it is now possible to look at millions of unknown viruses at genomic level and understand the mechanism. According to available data, close to 70 per cent of emerging viral diseases such as HIV/AIDS, West Nile, Ebola, SARS, and influenza, are zoonoses - infections of animals that cross into humans.

To address the challenges of describing and estimating virodiversity, a team of investigators from Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) and EcoHealth Alliance began in jungles of Bangladesh - home to the flying fox.

Reference:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/mammals-harbour-at-least-320000-new-viruses/articleshow/22253268.cms

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23932400

Research Fellows at CSIR - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh

Tue, 19 May 2015 07:17:32 -0500

CSIR - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology 2 vacancies of Project Fellow

Name of the Post: Project Fellow

No. of the Post: 02 Two

Salary: Rs. 12000/- per month or Rs. 14000/- per month

Age Limit: Max. 28 years as on 10.06.2015 and relaxation as per rules

Required Job Profile:

Candidate must possess first class B.Tech. in bioinformatics or computational biology OR M.Sc. in bioinformatics or computational biology with fifty five percent marks OR M.Tech. in bioinformatics or computational biology with fifty five percent marks.

How to apply:

Eligible and interested candidates should need to appear for walk-in interview on 10.06.2015 at 9:00 am at the above mentioned address.

Refer to http://www.ihbt.res.in/recruit/AdvtNo7_2015.pdf

DNA tale of 3 to 4 years old Serbia boy

Rahul Agarwal — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:34:00 -0600

The genome of a young boy found underground at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal of eastern Siberia around 24,000 years ago came out as close relative of Europeans and Native Indians.

Link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/science/two-surprises-in-dna-of-boy-found-buried-in-siberia.html?_r=0

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12736.html

Genome of Rainbow Trout Sequenced

Rahul Agarwal — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:36:51 -0500

Major finding:

“In humans and most vertebrates the duplication events were older so there are fewer duplicated genes still present. Most of the duplicated genes get lost or modified so much that they are no longer recognizable as duplicates over time. In the trout and salmon we can see an earlier stage in the process and many duplicated genes are still present,” said Dr Gary Thorgaard of Washington State University, a co-author of the paper published in the journal Nature Communications.

Source:

http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/science-genome-rainbow-trout-01877.html

Real time Sequencing

Rahul Agarwal — Sun, 04 May 2014 18:16:42 -0500

“... we now know we can do high-throughput sequencing at any location on Earth,” Moroz said.

Source:

http://news.ufl.edu/2014/04/28/real-time-genome-sequencing-at-sea/

IPython: Interactive notebooks

Rahul Nayak — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:07:02 -0600

The IPython Notebook is a web-based interactive computational environment where you can combine code execution, text, mathematics, plots and rich media into a single document.

These notebooks are normal files that can be shared with colleagues, converted to other formats such as HTML or PDF, etc. You can share any publicly available notebook by using the IPython Notebook Viewer service which will render it as a static web page. This makes it easy to give your colleagues a document they can read immediately without having to install anything.

To learn more about using the IPython Notebook, you can visit our example collection, and you can read the documentation for all the details on how to use and configure the system. The Notebook Gallery showcases many interesting notebooks covering a variety of topics, from basic programming to advanced scientific computing.

More http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the-code-1.16261

http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/1/interactive/notebook.html

Reference http://ipython.org/notebook.html

Genomics and sequencing approach for identification of biomarkers to assess the efficacy of TGF-βRI inhibitors (of liver cancer) in vivo

Rahul Agarwal — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:55:32 -0500

Liver cancer is third leading cause of deaths and fourth most frequent occuring cancer worldwide. There are multiple signaling pathways responsible for causing cancer amongst which TGFb is most important cytokine whose signaling pathway promote cancer. However, main problem is to cure this cancer at late stage where we still have no treatment strategy to tackle this deadly cancer. Hence we need to find out new therapeutic target. One way is to look the relationships between mRNA, methylation and miRNA data of patients with different pathological conditions (cancer vs control either with inhibitor/not). MiRNA is small RNA molecules known to inhibit mRNA expression of particular gene by binding improperly to 3'UTR region of a gene and hence block binding of TF /translation of gene. CpG regions is known to located at promoter region of gene (5' UTR) and usually hypomethylated which allow to gene to transcribe and translate however sometime this region become hyper-methylated thats prevent expression of host gene. Thus , integration of these three data reveal new targets and pathways important for causing or preventing cancer and also reveal biomarker thats check the effects of inhibitor on signaling pathway underlying liver cancer.