IGIB Delhi Project Recruitments 2014 March


Advt No CSIR_IGIB/HR/March_2024_01 Date: 21-03-2024 

POSITIONS OPEN FOR TEMPORARY RESEARCH PROJECT POST(S) 

CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB), desires to engage qualified incumbents on a purely temporary basis in various ongoing projects of the Institute as listed below: 

Scientist Dr. Chetana Sachidanandan 

Scientist mail Id chetana@igib.res.in 

Project Title Understanding neurodevelopmental disorders using stem cell and animal models 

Post Code Post Code – 1 

Designation Project Associate-I 

Essential Qualification Master’s Degree in Natural or Agricultural Sciences/ MVSc or Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Technology or Medicine from a recognized University or equivalent. 

Work Profile The work will involve creating and handling human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs). An interest in stem cell biology and having taken courses in developmental biology/stem cell biology would be a bonus. 

Desirables Qualification Experience working with cultured cells 

Age Limit UR: 35 Years SC/ST:40 Years OBC: 38 Years 

Tenure 31 March 2025 

Monthly Emoluments 31,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests qualified) ; 25,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests not qualified) 

Scientist Dr. Chetana Sachidanandan 

Scientist mail Id chetana@igib.res.in 

Project Title Understanding neurodevelopmental disorders using stem cell and animal models 

Post Code Post Code – 2 

Designation Project Associate-II 

Essential Qualification Master’s Degree in Natural or Agricultural Sciences/ MVSc or Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Technology or Medicine from a recognized University or equivalent. 

Essential Experience 2 years’ experience in Research and Development in Industrial and Academic Institutions Work Profile The work will involve sequencing data analysis. 

Desirables Qualification The candidate should be thorough with R and Python, should be well versed with Bulk RNA seq data handling ( good knowledge on deSEQ2 and EdgeR pipelines) and know how to handle single-cell RNA data sets using standard Seurat pipeline 

Age Limit UR: 35 Years SC/ST:40 Years OBC: 38 Years 

Tenure 31 March 2025 

Monthly Emoluments 35,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests qualified) ; 28,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests not qualified) 

Scientist Dr. Chetana Sachidanandan 

Scientist mail Id chetana@igib.res.in 

Project Title Understanding neurodevelopmental disorders using stem cell and animal models 

Post Code Post Code – 3 

Designation Project Scientist -1 

Essential Qualification Doctoral Degree in Science or Master’s Degree in Engineering or Technology from a recognized University or equivalent. 

Work Profile The work will involve project management and working with clinicians, preparing and obtaining ethical clearance for human sample collections, developing and standardizing protocols for generation of human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs). 

Desirables Qualification Research experience in working with and generating iPSCs is desirable. 

Age Limit UR: 35 Years SC/ST:40 Years OBC: 38 Years 

Tenure 31 March 2025 

Monthly Emoluments 56,000/- + HRA increment of 5% for every 2 years of experience subject to performance review. 

Scientist Dr. Archana Singh

Scientist mail Id archana@igib.in 

Project Title Delineating the role of skin-resident memory T cells in the pathogenesis of vitiligo 

Post Code Post Code- 4 

Designation Project Associate-I 

Essential Qualification Master’s Degree in Natural or Agricultural Sciences/ MVSc or Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Technology or Medicine from a recognized University or equivalent. 

Work Profile This work will involve flow cytometry-based cytokine analysis of skin-resident immune cells in vitiligo patients and healthy subjects. 

Desirables Qualification Basic knowledge of cell culture and molecular biology techniques 

Age Limit UR: 35 Years SC/ST:40 Years OBC: 38 Years 

Tenure 1 st April 2024-12th Sep 2024 (total project tenure till 12th Sep 2026) 

Monthly Emoluments 31,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests qualified) ; 25,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests not qualified) 

Scientist Dr. Archana Singh 

Scientist mail id archana@igib.in 

Project Title Development of a Novel 3D Skin Model to Elucidate the Mechanisms of Immune Dysregulation and Melanocyte Dysfunction in vitiligo 

Post Code Post Code – 5 

Designation Project Associate-II 

Essential Qualification Master’s Degree in Natural or Agricultural Sciences/ MVSc or Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Technology or Medicine from a recognized University or equivalent. 

Essential Experience 2 years’ experience in Research and Development in Industrial and Academic Institutions 

Work Profile This work will involve establishing primary cultures of cells from human skin biopsies, and generating 3D skin from it. The work will also involve flow cytometrybased cytokine analysis of skin-resident immune cells. 

Desirables Qualification Experience in handling primary cell cultures. 

Age Limit UR: 35 Years SC/ST:40 Years OBC: 38 Years Tenure 1 st April 2024-31st March 2025 (total project tenure till 31st March 2026) 

Monthly Emoluments 35,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests qualified) ; 28,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests not qualified) 

Scientist Dr. Archana Singh 

Scientist mail id archana@igib.in 

Project Title Development of a transglutaminase-1 nanocomplex as a method for topical enzyme replacement therapy for autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis-a rare genetic disorder 

Post Code Post Code – 6 

Designation Research Associate or Project Scientist-I 

Essential Qualification PhD in life sciences 

Essential Experience Experience in gene cloning and protein expression and purification methods 

Work Profile This work involves cloning and expression of human transglutaminase gene using E coli system, followed by development of transglutaminase-1 nanocomplex for testing as a potential therapeutic candidate for autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis. 

Desirables Qualification Proficient knowledge in molecular biology techniques. Along with knowledge of basic cell culture techniques. 

Age Limit UR: 35Years SC/ST: 40Years OBC: 38Years 

Tenure 1 st April-19 Feb 2025 (total project tenure till 19 Feb 2026) 

Monthly Emoluments 56000/-+HRA 

Scientist Dr. Mary K. Ekka 

Scientist mail Id mary.ekka@igib.res.in 

Project Title Uncovering the molecular basis of nucleolin’s binding to G-quadruplex structures 

Post Code Post Code – 7 

Designation Project Associate -II 

Essential Qualification Master’s Degree in Natural or Agricultural Sciences/ MVSc or Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Technology or Medicine from a recognized University or equivalent. 

Essential Experience 2 years’ experience in Research and Development in Industrial and Academic Institutions. 

Work Profile The work involved is basic molecular biology work, the candidate would be making protein constructs and analyzing RNA-protein interactions using biophysical methods 

Desirables Qualification Proficient knowledge in molecular biology techniques including, but not limited to PCR, protein purification, qRT-PCR, basic knowledge of bioinformatic tools 

Age Limit UR: 35 Years SC/ST:40 Years OBC: 38 Years 

Tenure 1 st April 2024- 31st March 2025 

Monthly Emoluments 35,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests qualified) ; 28,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests not qualified) 

Scientist Dr. Sheetal Gandotra 

Scientist mail Id sheetal.gandotra@igib.res.in 

Project Title Towards identification of regulators of direct lipid droplet-to-lysosome transfer mediated lipid droplet turnover 

Post Code Post Code – 8 

Designation Senior Project Associate 

Essential Qualification Master’s Degree in Natural or Agriculture Sciences/ MVSc or Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Technology or Medicine from a recognized University or equivalent and Four years’ of experience in Research and Development OR 
Doctoral Degree in Science/Engineering/ Technology/Pharma/MD/MS from a recognized University or equivalent. 

Work Profile Will be generating stable knockdown lines, studying lipid droplet phenotypes using microscopy, and performing colocalization and protein-protein interaction studies 

Desirables Qualification Should have authored at least one first author publication in a peer reviewed SCI indexed journal 

Age Limit UR: 40 Years SC/ST:45 Years OBC: 43 Years 

Tenure Two years 

Monthly Emoluments 42000/-+HRA 

Scientist Dr. Lipi Thukral 

Scientist mail Id lipi.thukral@igib.in 

Project Title HCP47 

Post Code Post Code – 9 

Designation Project Scientist 

Essential Qualification Doctoral Degree in Science or Master’s Degree in Engineering or Technology from a recognized University or equivalent; and Essential Experience Seven years’ experience in Research and Development in Industrail and Academic Institution or Science and Technology Organization and Scientific activities and services. 

Work Profile The project involves development of data platforms that will integrate orthogonal biological datasets, including clinical and genomics information. The project will also closely work with cloud computing resources at the institute to set up data lakes. 

Desirables Qualification PhD in science with more than 7 years of experience with industrial/academic interface. Working with clinicians on data science projects/product development with good published record is highly desirable. 

Age Limit UR: 45 Years SC/ST:45 Years OBC: 43 Years 

Tenure 1 year 

Monthly Emoluments 78,000/- + HRA increment of 5% for every 2 years of experience 

Scientist Dr. Bhavana Prasher 

Scientist mail Id bhavana.p@igib.res.in 

Project Title Pre-IND enabling studies on Adhatoda vasica extracts for treatment of pulmonary fibrosis through hypoxia response modulation 

Post Code Post Code – 10 

Designation Senior Project Associate 

Essential Qualification Master’s Degree in Natural or Agriculture Sciences/ MVSc or Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Technology or Medicine from a recognized University or equivalent and Four years’ of experience in Research and Development OR Doctoral Degree in Science/Engineering/ Technology/Pharma/MD/MS from a recognized University or equivalent. Work Profile Cell line based studies on hypoxia and fibrosis with molecular phenotyping 

Desirables Qualification Experience in cell culture based work, genomic and molecular analysis 

Age Limit UR: 40 Years SC/ST:45 Years OBC: 43 Years 

Tenure One year 

Monthly Emoluments 42000/-+HRA 

Scientist Dr. Aastha Mishra 

Scientist mail Id aastha.mishra@igib.res.in 

Project Title CSIR Integrated Skill Initiative 

Post Code Post Code – 11 

Designation Project Associate I 

Essential Qualification Master’s Degree in Natural or Agricultural Sciences/ MVSc or Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Technology or Medicine from a recognized University or equivalent. 

Work Profile The work will involve project management and assistance in training the students in Genomics and Molecular Technologies. The work will involve molecular biology techniques including, but not limited to PCR, qRT-PCR, basic knowledge of bioinformatic tools, DNA isolation, DNA library preparations and sequencing data analysis. 

Age Limit UR: 40 Years SC/ST:45 Years OBC: 43 Years 

Tenure Till 31 March 2025 

Monthly Emoluments 31,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests qualified) ; 25,000/- + HRA (National Eligibility Tests not qualified) 

Scientist Dr. Shravanti Rampalli 

Scientist mail Id shravanti@igib.res.in 

Project Title BDMG 

Post Code Post Code – 12 

Designation Scientific Administrative Assistant 

Essential Qualification Graduate degree in any discipline 

Work Profile File management, record keeping, data entry, data management and client communication 

Desirables Qualification Experience with MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint 

Age Limit UR:50 Years SC/ST:55 Years OBC: 53 Years 

Tenure One year Monthly Emoluments 18,000/- + HRA 

Note: The applicants will be subjected to shortlisting by our scientists according to the current requirement and the shortlisted candidates will be interviewed. The duration of the post also depends on the fund available in a particular project and its validity. Reservation and Age relaxation as per CSIR/Govt. of India guidelines. Tenure may be extendable up to project duration. The engagement which is on contract basis in respect of all above positions will confer no rights on the candidates, whatsoever, implicitly and/ or explicitly for their continuation beyond tenure/ absorption/ regularization in CSIR-IGIB. Contract may be terminated at any time by giving one-month notice by either side. The candidates who have already served CSIR-IGIB or any other lab/ Institute of CSIR as any Project Associate/Project Assistant/Project Fellow/JRF (in contract Page 7 of 7 R&D projects)/ SRF (in contract R&D projects)/ Research Associate etc. for a total of 5 years or more are not eligible for these engagements. The candidates who have served for a period less than 5 years will have tenure upto remaining period till completion of five years. Candidates should note that non-fulfillment of the eligibility criterion will result in cancellation of candidature at any stage. Those candidates who are still pursuing Masters/Bachelors/PhD or any qualification for the above post(s) on the last date of application will not be considered and age will be calculated on the last date of receiving applications. 

How to Apply: Please fill up the proforma by clicking on the following link HR Online Form

No application would be entertained with “result awaited” status or after due date. List of shortlisted, selected candidate(s), and candidate(s) kept in the panel will be put up on the CSIR-IGIB website. Panel student(s) will be considered for six months. If any PI considers that the panel candidate meets his/her requirement for their project, they will be called; otherwise, the new advertisement will be put up. No TA/DA will be paid to the candidates to attend the interview. The engagement shall be as per guidelines of CSIR/Funding agency. Candidates will have an option to give reply in Hindi. "DISCLAIMER: Candidates who are applying please ensure that you fulfill the essential qualifications. If you apply without fulfilling the essential qualifications then it will be considered that you are giving wrong/misleading information. The ONUS OF THIS ACTION WILL BE ON THE CANDIDATE and not on the scientists, HR Division or the Institute. In case you are found not to fulfill the essential criteria or that you have provided misleading information, then your candidature for the post may be rejected at any stage of selection or after selection". There would be no automatic shifting of project staff from one project to another. On completion of the tenure in one project, if one wants to apply for engagement in another project, he/she will have to go through the process of selection by submitting a fresh application. An appointment under the new project would be made only after the submission of the No Dues Certificate in the previous project and the submission of resignation from the previous project. Note: The shortlisted candidates have to keep ready with them a valid photo ID card, an updated signed C. V. (clearly mentioning Date of Birth, Highest Qualification with percentage, Correspondence Address and Email-ID), Dissertation (if any), PhD thesis (if any) and original certificates/Self attested photocopies for verification. Head, Human Resource Division

More Info: https://www.igib.res.in/sites/default/files/Advt_April_2024.pdf

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