<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:33.6px;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-size:16px">Applications are invited from highly motivated students for admission to the PhD programme  in the <a href="http://faculty.iisertvm.ac.in/natesh/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,127,199);line-height:33.6px">Structural Molecular Biology</a>  lab of Dr. Ramanathan Natesh in the area of   <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700;color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Infectious Disease  (<em style="box-sizing:inherit">Mycobacterium<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:inherit">tuberculosis</em></em>  and  <em style="box-sizing:inherit">Plasmodium falciparum)   and DNA Damage Repair,  </em></span></span><br></p><font size="4" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Under the Ph.D. Programme of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM), India, starting August 2018.</font><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></p><h4 style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:33.6px;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:33.6px">For eligibility and how to apply go to :  </span></h4><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><a href="http://www.iisertvm.ac.in/pages/phd_admissions.phpx" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.iisertvm.ac.in/<wbr>pages/phd_admissions.phpx</a> *</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Last date of receipt of the application form: <span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">30</span><sup style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;line-height:28px;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">th</sup><span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>April 2018</span></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div><br></div><div><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The successful applicant will clone, express and purify proteins and protein complexes for characterisation using single particle cryo-electron microscopy and protein crystallography </span>along with range of other biophysical (DLS, MALS, CD, Fluorescence etc.), biochemical and molecular biology techniques.  <span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We are looking for candidates with<span> </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">strong interest in structural biochemistry.  Ideally, these candidates will have prior </span>expertise in protein expression and purification.  Prior knowledge of cryo electron microscopy and / or protein crystallography or biophysical methods is a plus.</span></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div>We have excellent facilities for doing Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Protein Crystallography and Single Particle cryoEM  : See <a href="http://faculty.iisertvm.ac.in/natesh/index.php/sample-page/">http://faculty.iisertvm.ac.in/natesh/index.php/sample-page/</a><div><br></div>Note that students who have qualification in one of the national level tests, listed at the above application link* are eligible to apply online.   If you are not eligible and not residing in India and you are still interested in our Structural  Molecular Biology PhD programme, please get in touch with me by e-mail at “<a href="mailto:natesh72@hotmail.com">natesh72@hotmail.com</a>”  to informally discuss about your research plans in our lab.<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Best regards,<br>Natesh<br>--<span> </span><br><div class="gmail-m_-8897683063539465307gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------<wbr>----------------------------<br>"Live Simply and do Serious Things .. "<br>- Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM, FRS<br><br>"In Science truth always wins"<br>- Max Ferdinand Perutz OM FRS<br>------------------------------<wbr>----------------------------<br>Dr. Ramanathan Natesh<br>Assistant Professor, School of Biology,<br>Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM),<br><div></div>Maruthamala PO, Vithura,<br>Thiruvananthapuram - 695551, Kerala, India.<br><a href="mailto:natesh@iisertvm.ac.in" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">natesh@iisertvm.ac.in</a><br><a href="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-4488-2008" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.researcherid.com/<wbr>rid/C-4488-2008</a><br><a href="http://faculty.iisertvm.ac.in/natesh/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://faculty.iisertvm.ac.in/natesh/</a>  <br>Ph. 0091- 471 - 2599403<br>Alternate Ph. 0091- 471-2778087<br>Fax.0091- 471 - 2597427</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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