Shiv Nadar JRF & Postdoctoral Fellow Vacancies - Applications Invited

SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF LIFESCIENCES

Our group at Department of Life Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, UP is interested to study the role of cellular stress response pathways in health and diseases using model organisms like yeast and mammalian cells. We are actively collaborating with various reputed national and international research groups. Our research is funded by several extramural funding agencies like DBT, SERB, ICMR. For further information on the group, please visit https://lsci.snu.edu.in/people/faculty/koyeli-mapa Currently, we have opening as following and are looking for motivated and enthusiastic researchers.

APPLICATIONS INVITED FOR A PROJECT JRF POSITION (BIOCHEMISTRY/ LIFE SCIENCES/ BIOTECHNOLOGY)

Applications are invited for the position of Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) sponsored Core Research Grant titled "Elucidation of role of cytosolic chaperone Sse1, Hsp110 of yeast, during ER stress" under the Investigator, Dr. Koyeli Mapa, in Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University.

Essential Qualification: Master’s degree in Biotechnology / Biochemistry / Life Sciences / Chemistry with minimum 55% marks from a recognized university.

Desirable: It is preferable that the candidate is GATE/NET qualified (attach a copy of the score card) or with any equivalent fellowship or with experience in molecular biology, protein expression purification, or handling yeast as model organism or handling mammalian cell culture system.

Fellowship: Rs. 31,000 (year I & II) as per SERB norms.

Duration of the Project: 1 year (purely temporary), can be extended further based on satisfactory performance in the first year.

Applications with complete bio-data (with details of qualification i.e. examination passed, year, division, percentage of marks from 10th board onwards, and photocopies of mark sheets/ testimonials/certificates) should be sent by email to koyeli.mapa@snu.edu.in (or by post) to reach the following office on or before 30th April, 2020. Candidates should also arrange for one letter of recommendation to be directly sent to the following address Dr. Koyeli Mapa Assistant Professor Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences Office R214, second Floor, Research Block.

Shiv Nadar University NH-91, Tehsil Dadri District Gautam Buddha Nagar UP 201314, India.

Email: koyeli.mapa@snu.edu.in

Applications are invited from Post-Doctoral fellows who wish to apply for SERB-NPDF and DST Women Scientist Awards and are looking for host laboratory

Essential Qualification: PhD degree in Biotechnology / Biochemistry / Life Sciences / Chemistry who wish to apply for SERB-NPDF grant or DST Women Scientist grant and are looking for a host laboratory to sponsor their application. Candidates with experience in cell and molecular biology, protein biochemistry will be preferred. Experience with doctoral work on stress response pathways will be given priorities.

Applications with complete bio-data (with details of qualification i.e. examination passed, year, division, percentage of marks from 10th board onwards, and photocopies of mark sheets/ testimonials/certificates) and a research proposal should be sent by email to koyeli.mapa@snu.edu.in on or before 30th April, 2020. Candidates should also arrange for one letter of recommendation to be directly sent to the above email address.

Please use PIN 201314 for speed post or registered post, and PIN 201307 (Dadri) for courier services. Please mention the above mentioned project name in the application.

Selected candidates will be called for interview at the SNU campus. No TA/DA will be provided for appearing in this interview.

About Life Sciences Department: Many of our research projects are interdisciplinary in nature, involving collaborations across the globe, detailed descriptions of research interests of our faculty and other information is provided on https://lsci.snu.edu.in ; https://lsci.snu.edu.in/research/laboratories Research Infrastructure: The laboratories of the Dept. of Life Sciences and school of Natural Sciences are well equipped with state-of-the-art research facilities and equipment like FACS ARIA III, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope, Real Time PCR (ABI), Advanced Fluorescence Microscope, Mammalian, Parasite and Virus culture (BSL-2) facilities, and central instrumentation facility having LCMS, XRD, AFM, Raman spectrometer, Luminometer etc.

Computational facilities at SNS include a high performance IBM cluster (“Magus”) consisting of 32 compute nodes (plus two nodes with GPU processors) delivering 332.8 Giga flops by each node and a theoretical peak performance of 10.649 TF from overall compute nodes.

Additionally, there are several stand-alone Linux workstations that are being used for teaching and research purposes. Several software for Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics analyses are also available.

General Information about SNU http://www.snu.edu.in/ SNU is a multi-disciplinary research-led university, established by the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 2011 through an act of the State of Uttar Pradesh, India. SNU's mission is to develop and educate the leaders of tomorrow; to support research and scholarly endeavors that contribute to the creation of new knowledge; and to run research and teaching programs that tackle the most pressing problems of India and the global community. The University offers a wide range of academic programs at the undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral level.

The University has been selected as one of the 10 private “Institutions of Eminence” by the Government of India.

In the NIRF (Government’s National Institutional Ranking Framework), SNU has been the youngest institution in the 'top 100' Overall list, and our score has been rising steadily. In NIRF-2019, SNU ranked 52 in the 'University' category. The University has been accredited with ‘A’ Grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation

Council (NAAC). We are also among a select group of green-field institutions in the country which were awarded the prestigious Atal Incubation Center grant by the Niti Aayog, Government of India, in the very first round in 2017.