(Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India)
Knowledge city, Sector-81,
Mohali, (Punjab)
RECRUITMENTS OF SCIENTISTS:
DIRECT RECRUITMENT OR ON DEPUTATION
[Advt. No.NABI/02/2017/Rectt.]
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, is an autonomous R&D Institute
under Government of India, Department of Biotechnology. The institute is a state of the art
facility in globally competitive and translatable research areas at the interface of agricultural
biotechnology, food processing and nutritional sciences. The applications are invited from
individuals having outstanding research record and enthusiasm to develop an organization with
world class environment, the best of science, and partnerships with public and private sector.
NABI needs scientists of highest calibre and potential at various levels. The number of faculty
positions in the areas of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Biotechnology is given below.
Areas of specialization as essential qualifications:
Research experience will be calculated as follows:
1. For PhD degree experience will be calculated from the award of the PhD degree.
2. For MD/M.tech/M.E the experience will be calculated from the date of the award of degree
(MD/M.tech/M.E) in the relevant subject.
Interest (evidenced by publications in high IF journals, patents of proven utility and or products
of applied value) relevant and critical to the following areas of research will be considered.
1. Agricultural Biotechnology and Molecular Biology:
Application & biotechnological tools for developing crop varieties (cereals, legumes, vegetables and fruits) for high nutrition, increased shelf life and processing quality; Genomics
assisted breeding and genomic selection; Non transgenic approaches like CRISPR/Cas9 for
genetic engineering of crops (cereals, legumes, vegetables and fruit) applications of OMICS
techniques and whole genome analysis to identify genes, biomarkers, signal transduction,
pathway regulation, plant immunity and applications to regulating plant growth and
development.
2. Food Safety and Quality:
Food Standards, Food Safety (Microbial, Chemical, and Physical contaminants); Diagnostics
for Food Safety.
3. Food Stability:
Applications of biopolymers to foods, smart polymers, nano-materials edible coatings,
bioactive molecules and enzymes for enhancing post-harvest shelf life of fruits and vegetables
biosensors.
4. Food Processing and Design:
Improving structure and quality of foods, using enzymes, bio-molecules and microbes in food
processing, novel product development and food fortification.
5. Computational Biology and Bioinformatics:
High throughput genome analysis genome assembly, annotation and comparative genomics,
metagenome and microbiome analysis, ability to handle NGS data, protein modeling and
interaction and system biology preferably with skills in (a) Machine learning or (b) High
Performance Computing or (c )Biostatistics, or database and genome browser development
6. Nutraceutical and Phytochemicals:
Characterization and development of novel natural plant products and product development
for better health, natural flavors, colors and dyes
7. Nutritional Biology:
Bioprocessing of foods for enhancing micronutrition and bioavailability: nutrigenomics
8. Plant Tissue Culture:
Micropropagation, double haploid development, genetic transformation of cereals, pulses,
vegetables and fruit crops.
Selection Process:
The applications will be received against the advertised positions. Suitably constituted
screening committee will screen the applications in one or two stages on the basis of essential
qualifications & research experience, recommendation letters and research outcomes. The
applicants identified as highly promising will be invited for interactions at the institute and for
discussions with suitably constituted selection committee.
Applications will be picked up for screening in two batches, first on May 31, and second
on Nov 30, 2017.
Don't forget to mention helpBIOTECH when you Apply
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