IISER Pune PhD 2024 Admissions (January)
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IISER Pune PhD 2024 Admissions (January) – Biology PhD Programme

IISER Pune PhD 2024 Admissions (January) – Biology PhD Programme. IISER Pune PhD Admission. IISER Pune Admissions for PhD Programme in Biology – January 2024. Interested and eligible applicants can check out all of the details on the same below

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PhD Admissions in Biology January 2024

IISER Pune hosts a diverse group of researchers working in various areas. Research in Biology at IISER Pune encompasses both theoretical and experimental approaches.

The fields of research open to application in this round of PhD selections are given below, along with names of faculty members working in the respective fields:

Ecology and Evolution

For students interested in Ecology and Evolution. This includes Theoretical and Empirical
aspects of Ecology (Agricultural, Chemical, Molecular, Plant, Physiological, Microbial),
Evolution (Life-History) and Biodiversity (Taxonomic, Functional and Phylogenetic).

Faculty listing:

  1. Deepak Barua
  2. Ramana Athreya
  3. Sagar Pandit
  4. Sutirth Dey

Molecular/Cell Biology/Biochemistry:

For students interested in molecular biology, cell biology, cellular biophysics, developmental
biology, microbiology, immunology, epigenetics, chromosome biology and cancer biology.
Faculty listing:

  1. Amrita Hazra
  2. Chaitanya Athale
  3. Gayathri Pananghat
  4. Kundan Sengupta
  5. Mayurika Lahiri
  6. Nagaraj Balasubramanian
  7. Sudha Rajamani

Plant Sciences:

For students interested

in Plant Cell and Developmental Biology, Plant Biotechnology, Agricultural Biotechnology, Plant Physiology, Plant Ecology, and Plant Chemical Ecology

Faculty listing:

  1. Deepak Barua
  2. Sagar Pandit

Theoretical and Computational Biology

For students interested in any branch of theoretical biology including theoretical
neuroscience, evolution, bioinformatics and computational cell biology.
Faculty listing:

  1. Chaitanya Athale
  2. Collins Assisi
  3. Pranay Goel
  4. Suhita Nadkarni

IMPORTANT:

  1. There will not be any rotations. Students will directly join the labs of their choice.
  2. Note that the faculty members whose names are listed here are the ones who will be accepting students in this round of PhD admissions. However, this list is expected to undergo some revision after lab allocations of Aug intake PhD students is complete. Students should factor this possibility while thinking about labs of their interest from this list of names provided. A final updated list of available faculty will be shared with students selected for the final round of interviews.

Application Criteria

All candidates who fulfill criterion A1 and any one of the criteria mentioned in A2 are eligible to apply.

Based on these applications, IISER Pune will create the list of students to be invited for online interviews.

Eligibility Criteria

A1. Masters; (or B.E., B.Tech., M.Tech, MBBS) degree holders in any branch of science including physics, chemistry, mathematics, biological sciences, ecology and environmental sciences, biodiversity, psychology or equivalent. Applicants must have a minimum of 60% marks in aggregate (overall percentage and not just in majoring subject) or CGPA of 6/10 in the general category or a minimum 55% marks in aggregate (overall percentage and not just in majoring subject) or equivalent CGPA of 5.5 in the SC/ST or PwD category. Students whose final results in Masters or equivalent are yet to be declared can also apply. However, if selected, the offer for these students will be provisional, subject to their fulfilling the above criteria.

A2. Applicants must have any one of the following qualifications.

  • Qualified a National Eligibility exam that provides a 5-year Ph.D. fellowship such as
    CSIR–JRF / UGC–JRF / DBT–JRF–A/ ICMR–JRF / DBT–BINC–JRF / Rajiv Gandhi
    National Fellowship. The fellowships must be valid until 31-January-2024.
  • Qualified JEST (rank holder up to 500) or GPAT (rank holder up to 500) or NBHM in last
    two years.
  • INSPIRE-Ph.D. fellowship (should be in possession of provisional selection letter at the
    time of Interview).
  • IISER BS-MS dual degree students with CGPA ≥ 8.0
  • Rank =200 in GATE exams (GATE Life Sciences, GATE Chemistry, GATE Eco-Evo,
    GATE Biotechnology, GATE Mathematics). The GATE score must be valid until 31-
    January-2024.
  • Qualified JGEBILLS (IISER Pune will shortlist based on the ranks of the students).

Shortlisting and Interview Process:

Meeting the above-mentioned criteria merely makes the candidate eligible for application.
IISER Pune reserves the right to use other / more stringent criteria for the purpose of
shortlisting for interviews. Specifically, the scores obtained in the “Research Design” and
“Design an experiment” can be used for the purpose of shortlisting for interviews. Only
shortlisted candidates will be informed. Therefore, all candidates are requested to check this page regularly for updates. The referees of the shortlisted candidates alone shall be contacted for the reference letters.

Queries: In case of queries, please email [email protected].

Important Dates

  • Last Date of Application: Nov 5, 2023
  • Tentative Dates of PhD Interviews (online): Nov 25 to Dec 5, 2023

APPLY ONLINE HERE

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