DBT-STATE BIOTECH HUB

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
MIZORAM UNIVERSITY, AIZAWL- 796 004, MIZORAM No. MZU/BT/DBT BIOTECH HUB/ 2011/06 October 2011 Advertisement No. 3 Walk In Interview on 24 October 2011 03

The State Biotech Hub is the state of the art facility in Mizoram funded by Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi. The Objective of DBT, New Delhi to set-up the State Biotech Hub is to strengthen the capacity of Mizoram to undertake research in any branch of Life Sciences / Physical Sciences / Biomedical Sciences/ Agri & Veterinary Sciences; to promote education & research for development and transfer of knowledge systems; to attract students to build their career in different fields of in Biology/ Biotechnology; to organize training courses for school / college / institute students and teachers and to collaborate with other biotech hubs/ other institutes. Other objective includes biotech awareness programs for farmers/ general public/ NGOs. Walk-in Interview will be held for the following posts under the DBT-sponsored project DBT-State Biotech Hub:

1) Research Associate (RA) - One (01) post. (Emolument: Rs.22,000/- pm plus HRA)
Eligibility: Ph.D degree in Biological/ Chemical/ Physical/ Agri /Veterinary Sciences/Biomedical Sciences. Evidence of research experience in molecular biology techniques is essential from published work.

2) Senior Research Fellow/Junior Research Fellow Two (02) posts.

SRF (Emolument: Rs.14,000/- pm plus HRA) or JRF (Emolument: Rs.12,000/- pm plus HRA). Eligibility for SRF: M.Sc. degree in Biological/ Chemical/ Physical/ Agri /Veterinary Sciences/Biomedical Sciences and two years of post-M.Sc research experience is essential. Eligibility for JRF: Candidates having M.Sc. degree in the above. NET/GATE/ BINC candidates will be given preference (SRF: Rs.18,000/- pm plus HRA or JRF: Rs.16,000/- pm plus HRA). .

General Terms and Conditions The term of service is one year (except for Traineeship) which may be extended further depending on their performance and/or other conditions prevailing at that time. Fellowship amount and age relaxations will be as per norms of DBT, New Delhi. The post is purely temporary and is co-terminus with the project. The appointment does not confer any entitlement or right over the job and will not be considered as formal service. Candidates having strong interests and dedication towards the objectives of DBT, New Delhi in setting up the State Biotech Hub only need to apply. The selected candidates should also involve in overall setting up and proper functioning of the Biotech Hub. The walk in interview will be on 24 October 2011. Applications, neatly typed on plain paper along with attested photocopies of mark sheets and certificates should be submitted on the date of the walk in interview. All the Original certificates should be produced for verification. No TA & DA will be paid for appearing in the walk-in interview. Dr. N. Senthil Kumar
Coordinator (DBT-State Biotech Hub) Associate Professor, Dept. of Biotechnology Mizoram University, Aizawl

Email: mizoramuniv.btisnet@nic.in Copy to:

1. P.S to The Vice-chancellor, Mizoram University, Aizawl for information. 2. Dr. T. Madhan Mohan, Advisor, DBT, Govt. of India, New Delhi for information. 3. The Deans, School of Life sciences/Physical/ Earth Sciences, MZU. 4. The HODs of various Departments of MZU. 5. Coordinators of BTISnet/ NEBINeT Information Centres.

6. News Link Newspaper, Aizawl 7. The System Admin., MZU with a request to display in MZU website. 8. Office file.