National Agri Food Biotechnology Institute – Deans & Scientists

NABI needs staff of highest calibre and potential at various levels as shown below. The number of faculty positions is flexible. There are three positions of Deans, one each in Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Biotechnology.

Company name : National Agri Food Biotechnology Institute
Posts : Deans & ScientistsQualification : B.Tech, MBA, MBBS, M.Tech, Ph.D
Location : Punjab
Last date to apply : 31-05-2013

Details of Post :

Deans & Scientists

Total emoluments on Minimum of scale : 

1. Deans - Rs, 1,37,130/-
2. Scientist-F - Rs. 93,625/-
3. Scientist-E - Rs. 88,075/-
4. Scientist-D - Rs. 57,365/-
5. Scientist-C - Rs. 49,688/

Areas of specialisation as essential qualifications:

Research experience as shown above, after submission of PhD thesis or the award of highest Master‟s degree. Interest (evidenced by publications in high IF journals, patents of proven utility and, or products of applied value) relevant and critical to the following areas of research.

1. Plant Molecular Biology:

.(i) Post harvest enhancement of shelf life and quality of fruit crops, cereals, legumes and vegetables.
(ii) Nutritional improvement of cereals, legumes and fruit crops.
(iii) Development of vectors for gene delivery in food crops, specially cereals and fruit crops.
(iv) Small RNA research applied to biology and improvement of food crops.
(v) Non transgenic approaches to genetic engineering in plants.
(vi) Metabolomic, proteomic and genomic applications to identify biomarkers, signal transduction, pathway regulation and applications to regulating plant growth and development.

2. Regulatory Research : GM crops regulatory research, biosafety, environmental safety, tracing tools, global and national policy, chemical and functional equivalence.

3. Biomaterials & Enzymes: Applications of biopolymers, smart polymers, nanomaterials, edible coatings, bioactive molecules and enzymes for enhancing postharvest shelf life of fruits and vegetables.

4. Food Designing: Improving structure and quality of foods, using enzymes,biomolecules and microbes

5. Bioinformatics: Nucleic acid bioinformatics for differential transcriptomic, genomic analysis, pathway mapping, system biology preferably with skills in
(a) Machine learning or
(b) High Performance Computing or
(c )Biostatistics.

6. Nutritional Biology: Bioprocessing of foods for enhancing micronutrition and bioavailability

7. Plant Tissue Culture: Micropropagation, double haploid development, genetic transformation of cereals and fruit crops.

Selection Process:

The applications and nominations will be received against the advertised positions. Suitably constituted Screening Committee will screen the applications in one or two stages on the basis of essential qualifications, recommendation letters, research outcomes and experience. The applicants identified as highly promising will be invited for interactions at the institute and for discussions with suitably constituted Selection Committee. The successful applicants will be invited to join.

How to apply : The applications should be submitted in the prescribed format available at our website (www.nabi.res.in) or can be obtained by post from “Administrative Officer, National Agri Food Biotechnology Institute, C-127, Industrial Area, Phase-VIII, SAS Nagar Mohali, Punjab-160071 (India)”.

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