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Reminder for aspiring researchers! Explore PhD opportunities at CSIR-IMTECH for the January 2027 session. See the original post below for eligibility, application details and important dates.
#CSIRIMTECH #PhDAdmissions #ResearchOpportunities

Admissions are now open for the Ph.D. January 2027 Session at CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh!

Step into cutting-edge labs designed for discovery across five exciting thematic verticals:

𝗔𝗕𝗖𝗗: AI-linked research, Bioinformatics, Computational biology & Data analytics
𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗣: Celly, Host-Pathogen Interactions & antimirobial research, Immunology & Pathogenisis
𝗙𝗔𝗕: Fermentation, Applied Chemistry & Bioprocesses
𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘:Genomics & Genetics, Applied microbiology, Mircrobial ecology & Environmental Biology
𝗩𝗜𝗕𝗘: Vaccines, Industrial enzymes, Biotherapeutics & Engineering of Proteins

Be part of an ecosystem offering top-tier research infrastructure, interdisciplinary mentorship, and impactful scientific innovation.
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟑𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
Learn more & apply: imtech.res.in (or scan the QR code in the flyer!)
@DrJitendraSingh @CSIR_IND @AcSIR_India
#CSIRIMTECH #PhDOpportunity #ScienceCareers #ResearchFellowship #AcSIR #Innovation #BiotechIndia

Thank you for being at my side for 5+ years of hell. Best brother ever.

Papa, I am alive: Her last words before she died in an outbreak indianexpress.com/article/long-r… via @IndianExpress

📢 IITH Faculty Recruitment (Regular Drive) – Applications Open!

The Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) invites online applications for various faculty positions under its Regular Recruitment Drive.

🔗 Apply Online: careers.iith.ac.in

📄 Read the Recruitment t.co/u4CFVUXHNC

📅 Last Date to Apply: 12 November 2026, 11:59 PM (IST)

Interested and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply online before the deadline.

#IITHyderabad #FacultyRecruitment #FacultyPositions #IITHyderabad #CareersAtIITH

@EduMinOfIndia @paniit_usa @paniitindia @PanIIT1

Today I smiled for real for the first time in more than 5 years. Thank you to the jury, judge, court officer and clerk. And of course to my rockstar legal team. I truly wish the best for everyone involved.

This has been one of the most remarkable stories of our times consistent investment in Science and Education has led the country's meteoric rise.

China’s extraordinary rise in science and how it will change the world share.google/z07mPtfEiGOwE6…

@sanjeevsanyal @IndiaDST @NITIAayog

📢 Last Date Extended | Faculty Recruitment at the University of Hyderabad 🎓

The University of Hyderabad (UoH) – a premier Central University, an Institution of Eminence, and a leading centre for higher education and research – has extended the last date for applications for 37 gh Direct Recruitment.

🗓️ Revised last dates:
💻 Online application through CU-Chayan Recruitment Portal: 30 October 2026, till 5:30 PM
📮 Hard copy of the application: 05 November 2026, till 5:30 PM

📌 Positions on offer:
👩‍🏫 12 Professors
👨‍🏫 16 Associate Professors
🧑‍🏫 9 Assistant Professors

🔬 Disciplines covered: Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics, Arts and Management Studies.

✨ Come, join the University of Hyderabad – where knowledge meets discovery, research inspires innovation, and academic excellence shapes the future.

📄 As per Corrigendum dated 08/10/2026 to Advt. No. UH/Rectt./Teaching/2026-02 dated 07/09/2026. All other terms and conditions of the Employment Notification remain unchanged.

🔗 Notification, corrigendum, eligibility and how to apply:
🌐 University website: uohyd.ac.in/careers-uoh/
🌐 CU Chayan Recruitment portal: curec.samarth.ac.in

If you missed the earlier deadline, now's your chance – please share with colleagues and scholars who may be interested! 🙌

#UniversityOfHyderabad #UoH #HCU #InstitutionOfEminence #FacultyRecruitment #LastDateExtended #AcademicJobs #FacultyPositions #Professor #AssociateProfessor #AssistantProfessor #HigherEducation #Research #CentralUniversity #Hyderabad #CUChayan #AcademicCareers

Great funding opportunity for PhD students, early-career and returning investigators, and collaborative teams to move research forward on ME/CFS @PlzSolveCFS 👇🏼

IISER Mohali currently invites applications for 21 vacant Assistant Professor positions through direct recruitment in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences, Data Science, Science Education, and Artificiek exceptionally motivated scientists with a strong and innovative research program, a proven commitment to academic excellence, and a passion for teaching, particularly at the undergraduate level.

For more information, please see the link given below:

iisermohali.ac.in/files/archive/…

For submitting an online application for a faculty position, please refer to the link below.

erp.iisermohali.ac.in/OnlineRecruitm…

Why does something taste sweet, bitter, salty, sour or umami?
It feels automatic. You take a bite, and your brain seems to know instantly.
But behind that split-second sensation is a remarkably precise biological system and 2026 Wolf Prize in Medicine Laureate Charles S. Zuker rks.
His research identified the specialized cells and receptors responsible for the basic tastes, and showed how signals from the tongue are carried into distinct pathways in the brain.
In other words, taste isn’t simply about what touches your tongue. It’s about how the nervous system receives that signal, routes it, and ultimately gives it meaning.
Watch the video to see how Zuker’s discoveries helped turn one of our most familiar senses into one of neuroscience’s best-understood systems.
@hhmi_science @Columbia

Shankar Balasubramanian is the 2026 Wolf prize Laureates in Chemistry. Huge congratulations to him and a proud moment for all of us.

On a warm evening in August 1997, four chemists sat down at a pub in Cambridge. They had no conference room, no funding and no company, only a y, the technology that grew from that evening sits beneath more than 90% of the world's DNA sequencing data.

Shankar Balasubramanian was born in Madras on 30 September 1966. A year later his parents moved to England, to a rural patch of Cheshire near Runcorn. He spent his summers as a laborer on a neighbouring farm. And he dreamed of something that had nothing to do with chemistry: playing football for Liverpool FC.

Instead, his path led to Cambridge, where he took a degree in natural sciences in 1988 and a PhD in enzyme chemistry in 1991. Then came a postdoc at Penn State, and in 1994, a return to Cambridge to start his own research.

Just outside Cambridge, the Sanger Institute was busy with one of the largest projects in the history of biology: reading the human genome for the first time. The international effort ran from 1990 to 2003, and took about 13 years and billions of dollars.

Balasubramanian and fellow chemist David Klenerman were not thinking about any of that. They were studying DNA polymerase, the enzyme that copies DNA, by watching it work under a laser.

Then, on 26 August 1997, Balasubramanian invited Klenerman and two postdocs, Mark Osborne and Colin Barnes, to what he called a "beer summit" at his local, the Panton Arms. He often held meetings there, joking that the Chemistry department had no conference rooms and his office was too small.

Over that evening's drinks, an idea came together. What if each of the four building blocks of DNA were tagged with its own colour? Then you could simply watch a strand being built, one coloured flash at a time. And what if you did it not once, but on a chip, for billions of fragments at the same moment?

Years later, Balasubramanian looked back through his 1997 diary. Next to the line "meeting Klenerman & Co", he had written three words: "the Solexa idea!"

In November 1997 the two went to a firm of venture capitalists. Balasubramanian carried four overhead transparencies. His claim was staggering: this method could make sequencing 10,000-100,000x faster and cheaper.

They founded the company Solexa in 1998. Nine years later, in 2007, Illumina acquired it for $650 million. Along the way came the first commercial machine in 2006, and in 2008 the first African genome sequenced with the technology, in a Nature paper with about a hundred authors. The pub's regulars were among them.

In 2026, Balasubramanian, Klenerman and the French scientist Pascal Mayer were awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry. The citation credits their work with a million-fold improvement in sequencing speed and cost, bringing the price of a human genome to under $200.

In a Cambridge University feature on their story, Balasubramanian recalls a promise he once made at the Panton Arms: "I once told the landlord that I'll make him very famous one day."

Nature research paper: GPCR antagonism via rewiring of receptor trafficking and degradation

go.nature.com/4z7A5ug

We invite applications for all areas in physics and astronomy. We have an active astronomy+gravity group within the department of physics. @DPS_IISERM @astro_iiserm @RRI_Bangalore @IUCAApune @IIABengaluru @ARIESNainital @asipoec

@IiserMohali is inviting applications for Assistant Professor in all departments. Detailed advertisement is available at iisermohali.ac.in/files/archive/… with instructions to apply at iisermohali.ac.in/faculty-positi… Please share with potential candidates.

Mesmerizing musical evening @IiserMohali #Foundation Day...@ProfAnilKumarT1 @MahakSharma23 @DBS_IISERM @spicmacay

Happy to share my article on genome editing published in Hindustan Times

hindustantimes.com/s/1h0DSCm

High-resolution 4D imaging of mitochondrial phenotypes (Agarwal et al., 2026, cell.com/cell/fulltext/…).
"Mitochondrial form encodes bioenergetic function"

Applications for the YIM2027 meeting, being held at @IiserMohali and NABI, are now open. I highly encourage post-doctorate fellows who plan to move back to India to attend this meeting. This meeting is equally beneficial to the young investigators who have just started out.