Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, P.O. Box No. 10531,
New Delhi-110067
Inviting applications for Project Positions
DATE: July 18, 2022
Applications are invited from suitable candidates for filling up the purely temporary positions of (1)
One Junior Research Fellow/Project Associate-I in the NIPGR Short-Term Fellowship (STRF), and
(2) One Junior Research Fellow/Project Associate-I in the DBT Multi-institutional project
“Characterization of chickpea germplasm resource to accelerate genomics-assisted crop
improvement”, under mission programme of “Characterization of genetic resources”, under the
supervision of Dr. Senthil-Kumar Muthappa, Scientist, NIPGR.
Emoluments would be as per
Institute/DST & DBT norms.
Eligibility Criteria:
(1) Junior Research Fellow/Project Associate-I under STRF (One Post): Candidates having
Master’s degree in Plant science/Agriculture/life sciences with at least 55% (or equivalent) can apply.
The candidate is required to have sound theoretical knowledge in plant-stress biology and excellent
scientific writing skills. Subject comprehension in the area of plant responses to combined stresses
and experience of using large-scale text mining techniques are preferred. The project involves mining
and curation of literature, retrieval/analysis of desired information for the development of ‘plant
combined stress’ database.
(2) Junior Research Fellow/Project Associate-I under chickpea mission project (One Post):
Candidates having Master’s degree in bioinformatics/computational
biology/statistics/mathematics/Agriculture/life sciences with at least 55% (or equivalent) marks can
apply. This project involves screening chickpea germplasm for dry root rot disease (DRR).
The project
work requires skills for image analysis for disease detection/assessment (neural network/deep
learning) and digital disease scoring (computer vision/machine learning/Python), and other related
works. Experience in database/online platform development (HTML/CSS scripting,
MySQL/PHP/Javascript, R and fluency in linux) is preferred.
For both the positions of JRF/PA-I, candidates with NET and also those who qualify as per
the criteria mentioned in the DST Office Memorandum number SR/S9/Z-08/2018 dated
January 30, 2019 and SR/S9/Z-05/2019 dated July 10, 2020 are eligible to apply. The upper
age limit for PA-I will be 35 years.
The above positions are completely on temporary basis and co-terminus with the project. The
fellowship/emolument amount for the above positions are as sanctioned in the project and as per
NIPGR/DBT/DST norms. The initial appointment will be for one year or till the tenability of the
project whichever is earlier and the same can be curtailed/extended on the basis of assessment of the
candidate's performance and discretion of the Competent Authority.
NIPGR reserves the right to
select the candidate against the above post depending upon the qualification and experience of the
candidate. Reservation of posts shall be as per Govt. of India norms. The appointment may be
terminated any time by giving one month notice by either side. The applicants will have no claim
implicit or explicit for consideration against any regular position of NIPGR.
Eligible candidates for the above positions may send completed application on
skmuthappa@nipgr.ac.in in the given format with a cover letter showing interest and specifying the
position (applying for STRF post or DBT Project post) along with attested copies of the certificates
and proof of research experience. Incomplete application and lack of supporting
educational/experience certificates will be rejected. The candidates must ascertain their eligibility
before applying, as ineligible candidates will not be interviewed. Candidate may submit separate
applications, if applying for both the positions.
Last date of application is on or before the 15 days after release of advertisement at NIPGR website.
Interview link will only be sent to shortlisted candidates.
Note: ONLY soft copy of the application in the given format alongwith all certificates in a
single PDF will be accepted. For any clarification candidates may contact Scientist incharge
through e-mail only.
Dr. Senthil-Kumar Muthappa,
Scientist-V
National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR)
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg,
P.O. Box NO. 10531,
New Delhi – 110067.
Email: skmuthappa@nipgr.ac.in
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