KSS Lab - IISC exclusively hiring life science candidates for the post of JRF / SRF B6

Job Title : Junior/Senior Research Fellow @ Indian Institute of Science (MCB Dept)
Job Description :

• The KSS lab of the Microbiology and Cell Biology department of IISc is looking for individuals who are well versed with Next Generation Sequencing and Microarray data analysis.
• The primary research interest of the lab is genetics of brain tumors.
• The work will include analysis of NGS data (WGS, WES, RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq) data obtained from the IISc NGS facility (Illumina Platform) for detection of novel variants and genetic abnormalities associated with cancer of glial cells.
• Furthermore, variants identified through NGS analysis will be correlated with gene expression and methylation status of in-house and external tumor samples and vice versa.
• Additional details regarding the ongoing work in the lab can be obtained from the lab website: http://mcbl.iisc.ernet.in/KumarS/

Additional Skills Required :

• Applicants must have previous experience in NGS data analysis and Microarray data analysis.
• Applicants must be comfortable with the Linux operating system and command line interface.
• Applicants must be well versed with at least 1 programing language (C, perl, java, etc).
• Fluency in R statistical programming is desired.

Eligiblity : B.Tech/B.E./MSc or higher in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology.
NET/CSIR/BINC qualified will be preferred.
How to Apply :
Interested cnadidates can send their resume to kss.job.openings.2014@gmail.com
Note :

• A short write-up of NGS based / Microarray based project is mandatory.
• Contact information of three referees should be provided.

Last date of application : 30th June, 2014.