Research Associate jobs in Kolkata at IISER Kolkata

Applications are invited for the post of one Research Associate contractual position for a SERB sponsored research project “Understanding the anti-viral role of Ifit2 against murine Beta - Coronavirus infection” in the multidisciplinary translational research field undertaken in the Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Kolkata.

1. Project Name: Understanding the anti-viral role of Ifit2 against murine ?-Coronavirus infection.

2. Position: Research Associate

3. No. of Vacancy: 1

4. Minimum Eligibility – Ph.D. degree holder in Biological Sciences or SRF waiting to submit the thesis.

5. Job Description- Executing the project which involves animal studies, Virus infection in-vitro primary neuroglial cells and in-vivo in mice, Tissue harvesting from mice, Isolation of neonatal primary neuroglial cells, RNA extraction, RT-PCR, Immuno-histochemistry, Immuno-flourescence, Western blot, Data Curation and Data Analysis, Manuscript writing, helping PI to write research grants. Candidate should be interested to perform some in-silico molecular modelling and computational simulation to understand structure functional analysis.

6. Essential/desirable experience and/or expertise- Pro-efficient in logical thinking and independent execution of the project, Good writting and Oral English communication skills.

7. Desirable- Emotionally stable, hardworking, smart, dedicated to research. OR Ph.D. degree holder in the area of computational sciences. A person from the area of computational biology is conversant with structure-function analysis, integration of experimental data, and analytics of large data sets.

8. Salary: 47,000+ 24% HRA (per month)

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata) was established in 2006 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD),Government of India. IISER Kolkata is designed to reach the prestigious position in the global setting that IISc, IIMs and IITs presently enjoy. IISER Kolkata is an autonomous institution awarding its own degrees. The central theme of the IISER Kolkata is to integrate education with research so that undergraduate teaching as well as doctoral and postdoctoral research work could be carried out in symbiosis.