ICGEB Membrane Protein Structural Biology PhD Opening | ICGEB Recruits @ helpBIOTECH

PhD Position in Membrane Protein Structural Biology at ICGEB, New Delhi

A PhD position is open for Indian nationals who have valid fellowship from one of the following funding agencies: CSIR/UGC/DBT/ICMR/DST-Inspire, to work on human and plant ion-channels involved in oxidative stress.

Eligibility: MSc in Life Sciences, Chemistry or Physics.

Experience: Wet lab experience desirable, but not mandatory.

Brief work description: PCR cloning, protein expression and purification, enzyme kinetics, in vitro and in vivo assays, liposome reconstitution, electrophysiology, crystallization using bicelles and lipidic cubic phases, X-ray diffraction data collection, crystal structure determination, structure analysis, cell culture and redox biology.

Application deadline: 30 November, 2014

Facilities available at ICGEB: State-of-the-art X-ray data collection, protein purification, robotic nano-volume crystallization, CD, DLS etc. The selected candidate will have an opportunity to collaborate with plant molecular biology and human immunology groups at ICGEB.
How to apply: Please send the following as a single word/pdf file:

1) Covering letter explaining your research interests in ion-channel biology-one page.
2) Full research proposal on a novel ion-channel - two pages.
3) CV with e-mail id and complete address of 3 academic referees - two pages.

Arockiasamy Arulandu PhD
Structural and Computational Biology Group
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg
New Delhi-110 067
Phone: 011-26741358 Ext. 172 Fax: 011-26742316
E-mail: samlabicgeb@gmail.com

http://www.icgeb.org/a-arulandu-lab.html

Our recent publication: Maindola, P., Raina, R., Goyal, P., Atmakuri, A., Ojha, A., Gupta, S., Christie, P.J., Iyer, LM., Aravind, L., and Arockiasamy, A. 2014. Multiple enzymatic activities of ParB/Srx superfamily mediate sexual conflict among conjugative plasmids. [in press, Nature Communications]

Note: Applications without the covering letter and research write up will not be considered.