Shiv Nadar University
School of Natural Sciences
Department of Life Sciences
Ph.D. Admissions Announcement: AY 2017-18
The Department of Life Sciences in the School of Natural Sciences (SNS) at Shiv Nadar
University (SNU) invites applications for admission in its Ph.D. program starting in August
2017.
Research in the Department of Life Sciences is multifaceted with major focus in the areas of
Cancer Biology
Cell Signaling
Bacterial Genomics and Morphogenesis
Neuroscience
NGS Technologies
Parasitology
Protein Folding and Stress Response
Vascular Biology
Virology
Bioinformatics
Plant Sciences
Detailed descriptions of research interests of our faculty can be found at
http://www.snu.edu.in/naturalsciences/natural_sciences_life_sciences_faculty.aspx.
Many of our
research projects are interdisciplinary in nature, involving collaborations across multiple
departments in the School of Natural Sciences, as well as other schools and research centers of
the university.
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 equipments like FACS
ARIA III, 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, Photoluminescence 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
bioinformatic and cheminformatic analyses are also available.
Eligibility: A candidate should have (or expect to have by August 2017) an M.Sc. in any branch
of Life Sciences, with a minimum of 60% marks or an equivalent grade point.
Selection Process. Eligible candidates will be shortlisted based on their academic credentials
and application material submitted. The shortlisted candidates will be required to demonstrate
their knowledge through an on-site written test and interview, to be held on 5 and 6 July 2017.
Selections will be based on past academic performance, written examination and interview.
Candidates who have qualified for CSIR-UGC NET-JRF, DBT-JRF, ICMR-JRF or any other
Government research fellowship will directly appear for an on-site interview. Admission is
sought for a maximum of 18 seats in the department. Please note that the University
reserves the right to admit lower number of students if suitable candidates, according to
the admission committee, are not found.
Assistantship: All candidates admitted to the Ph.D. program are eligible for teaching/research
assistantships of ₹ 35,000.00 per month for four years. The assistantship is subject to satisfactory
performance in the program evaluated continuously, and compliance with all the University
regulations. Admission and other applicable fees and charges for the PhD program can be found
below or at the SNU website.
About SNU: Shiv Nadar University (http://snu.edu.in/) is a multi-disciplinary research
university, established by the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 2011 through an act of the State of Uttar
Pradesh, India. It is built on a spacious 256 acres fully-residential campus, near Dadri, U.P., at
the outskirts of Delhi. The University is driven by its distinguished faculty in natural sciences,
humanities and social sciences, engineering, management & entrepreneurship, communication,
education, art and design. The Ph.D. program at SNU is full-time and completely residential.
Applications should reach the above office by Tuesday, 30 May 2017
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