NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY
NEW DELHI-110067
Applications are invited for the position of Senior Research Fellow/Junior Research Fellow (Project)
for the following time-bound sponsored project as per the details given below:
Project entitled “Using next
generation genome editing tool
CRISPR/Cas9 in Caenorhabditis
elegans to understand the molecular
link of nutrient signaling and aging”
funded by DBT
Tenable till 05.07.2022
Dr. Arnab Mukhopadhyay
Staff Scientist-VI
Email : arnab@nii.ac.in
Educational Qualifications:
Masters degree (M.Sc./M.Tech) in Bioinformatics or any area of life science or MCA, good academic
record . The applicant should have qualified any ‘National Level Examination’. The candidates will be
considered for SRF if they have two years of research experience.
Emoluments: The selected candidates will draw consolidated emoluments as per DST OM dated
30.01.2019, depending upon qualifications & experience
Senior Research Fellow: Rs. 35,000/- per month plus 24% HRA
Junior Research Fellow: Rs. 31,000/- per month plus 24% HRA
Job description & Desired Knowledge:
The candidates are expected to have:
i. Experience in Next generation sequencing analysis of transcriptomics, ChIP-seq and small
RNA-seq data
ii. Ability to analyze raw primary data generated by Illumina Next generation sequencing
platform and create/troubleshoot custom analysis pipelines
iii. Ability to handle all downstream secondary and tertiary data analysis using commercially
available as well as open source software (transcriptomics, ChIP-seq, small RNA-seq)
iv. Apart from these, the applicant should have knowledge of the following:
• Scripting language: R, Perl and/or Python.
• Operating system: Unix, Linux and Windows.
• Exposure to NGS Analysis tools like: Maq, BWA, Bowtie, SAM tools, BEDTools, MACS,
Galaxy, FastQC, Tophat, Cufflinks, AvadisNGS, CLC Genomics Workbench, Galaxy,
BaseSpace, Trinity
• Understandin of Statistics using: Microsoft Excel and R.
• Genome Browser: UCSC, Ensemble, IGV, IGB
• Ability to use Motif Analysis Tools like: MEME Suite, Transfac and RSAT
• Functional Annotation Tools: DAVID, GeneCodis, Gene Cards
LAST DATE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS: 20.09.2021
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