The IndiaBioscience initiative: Research Opportunities in India

A talk by Dr. Swetha Suresh , Associate Director for IndiaBioscience

Venue: 434 Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Date:  Friday , 31st May , 2013
Time: 1:30PM
Please RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/561771733875538/
Event contact: sharmistha@berkeley.edu


Abstract: IndiaBioscience (http://www.indiabioscience.org/) is an
outreach initiative with the aim of strengthening life-sciences in
India by creating a platform that caters to the rapidly increasing
needs of the life science community in India as well as overseas.This
talk will showcase opportunities for pursuing research in India
(fellowships/grants); about various collaborative, informational
outreach, recruitment and networking activities that IndiaBioscience
has initiated and how best to get involved. More details at
http://www.indiabioscience.org/,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/indiabioscience/

The talk will provide a good opportunity to those interested in
building a teaching and research career in India to gain first hand
perspective on the opportunities and
possibilities that lie ahead. The talk will be followed by a
discussion and a question & answer session.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Swetha Suresh is the Associate Director for
IndiaBioscience, a pan-India outreach initiative. Her specialty is in
knowledge exchange, liaising and working at interfaces. She has
dabbled in biosensors, assessing viability of optical materials,
membrane-protein interactions, microeconomics, imaging, communications
and editing. Her academic background is in Industrial Biotechnology
(BTech) from Anna University, Chennai and Pharmacology (PhD) from
Cambridge, UK.

Milind Watve at UCSF

Talk by Milind Watve at UCSF

"Type 2 diabetes: how undergraduate inquiry changed the picture"

 Venue: S-201, Genentech Hall, UCSF

Time: 10 AM, Thursday, March 21, 2013

 Speaker: Professor Milind Watve, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India

 Dr. Watve is well known for engaging undergraduate classrooms in tackling real and challenging problems and thus changing the education model. You can read more about him on his group web page

Meeting in UC-Berkeley, Emerging career opportunities in the IITs, Friday April 13, 4:45PM

Opportunities for Postdocs at IITs in India - Friday, 13th April, 4:45 pm
- Prof. S K Jain, Director, IIT-Gandhinagar

Opportunities and Challenges of Building a World Class IIT from the Ground
Up: The IIT Gandhinagar Story

Prof Sudhir K. Jain, Director, IIT Gandhinagar director@iitgn.ac.in Venue:
434 Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Date: Friday, 13th April 2012
Time: 4:45 pm (NOTE: Barker closes at 5 pm, so please be on time or
contact us in advance to be let into the building
Please RSVP to sharmistha@berkeley.edu or at
https://www.facebook.com/events/244647525632709/

Abstract: The talk will put in perspective the new initiatives towards
higher education in India. It will focus on developments at IIT
Gandhinagar and its future vision and plans. Started in 2008, IIT
Gandhinagar seeks to establish itself as a centre of excellence in
research, teaching, and community engagement. The talk will cover some of
the exciting novel initiatives taken by the Institute in its quest to
achieve this target and lay out some of the challenges we face
going forward. As we grow in size, the Institute is looking for
outstanding and enthusiastic young faculty members who share the
Institute vision and values. The talk will provide a good opportunity to
those interested in building a teaching and research career in
India to gain first hand perspective on the opportunities and
possibilities that lie ahead. The talk will be followed by a
discussion and a question & answer session.

Bio: Sudhir K Jain received his Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from
University of Roorkee in 1979, Master of Science from California Institute
of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA in 1980, and Doctor of Philosophy,
also from Caltech, in 1983. He joined Civil Engineering faculty at IIT
Kanpur in 1984 and in June 2009 moved over to IIT
Gandhinagar as its first Director. At IIT Kanpur, Professor Jain
taught earthquake and structural engineering and has also mentored young
researchers in earthquake engineering and has published more than 150
research papers.

Professor Jain has been the Head, Civil Engineering Department
(2001-2003); Chairman, Student Placement Committee (1995-96);
Coordinator, Quality Improvement Programme (1997-1999); Coordinator,
Centre for Development of Technical Education (1997-1999), and the Dean,
Resource Planning and Generation (2005-2008) at IIT Kanpur. He serves on
the Board of Directors of the International Association for Earthquake
Engineering (2000- ) and is currently its Executive Vice President (2008-
). Professor Jain was elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of
Engineering in 2003.

2nd Annual YIM Boston, Oct 8-10, 2010

As a recent emerging trend, YIM's have
become a desirable concept in the USA
and India, interfacing leading Indian
Institutes and young Indian scientists
from across the world. The YIM Boston
2009, a pilot event organized last year attracted
over 200 applicants of which 43 outstanding
candidates were chosen to attend a two day closed
session. A year later, statistics confirm that the
experiment worked. Several YIM Boston 2009 short listed
candidates have either already relocated to India or
are in process of the same.

Notably, our one-if-its kind two-day format accommodates
and enhances the opportunity for representatives from
various institutes to meet with potential candidates,
start collaborations and initiate recruitment procedures.
We also host an open day session to accommodate
candidates who did not get selected and to also serve as
an informative session to others who are considering
options of pursuing an academic career in India.

The YIM- Boston chapter’s vision is to emerge as an
entity that provides a platform to young, qualified
researchers worldwide about growth and opportunities
in the biosciences field in India.

When: Oct 8-10th
Venue: Monadnock Rm at Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT,
     Boston, United States

Program Schedule: Details to follow

Oct 8th : Open session (open to all)

Oct 9- 10th : Closed session ( 30 selected candidates
will be invited to present their research and vision
with an opportunity to have 'one-on-one' interactions
with our distinguished panelists )

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://yimboston.org/2010Events.html

• Eligibility: Applications to the meeting are open to
outstanding postdoctoral fellows, scientists/principal
investigators and senior graduate students of any
nationality from the broad areas of engineering,
basic and clinical sciences.
• Instructions: Applicants are required to submit
their detailed CV along with a one-page description on
research and vision statements to apply@yimboston.org.
Please include your "broad subject of specialization"
in the subject line and on the top of the proposal.
• Travel grants may be awarded to selected candidates
• There is no application/registration fee
• Deadline: August 22nd, 2010
• Decisions: Selected candidates will be notified on
August 30, 2010
• Further info: E-mail info@yimboston.org

** ALL APPLICATIONS WILL BE SCREENED BY QUALIFIED,
SENIOR FACULTY FROM MIT, HARVARD, PARTICIPATING INDIAN
UNIVERSITIES AND FUNDING ORGANIZATIONS  **

Prof E.D. Jemmis, Director, IISER, Pune @ UC-Berkeley May 26, 2010

Prof. E. D. Jemmis, Director, Indian Institute of Science Educationand
Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India will be at UC Berkeley campus on the
26th May (Wednesday) to interact with Postdocs and final year PhD
students interested in applying for faculty positions in any of the five
new research and teaching institutes (Indian Institutes of Science
Education and Research at Kolkata, Pune, Mohali, Bhopal and
Thiruvananthapuram).

Date: 26th May 2009 at 4pm – 5.30 pm

Location: 205 Gilman Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley. (Phone: +91-989-502-4000)

If interested, please RSVP to jemmis@gmail.com (Phone: +91-989-502-4000)
or Rahul Das (Kuriyan Lab) rahuld382@gmail.com

Meet and discuss with Dr. Anuradha Lohia on Scientific opportunities and funding in India

Dr. Anuradha Lohia, the CEO of Welcome-DBT India Alliance and a
professor at the Bose Institute, Kolkata, will be at UCSF on the 9th
June to talk about the growing opportunities in pursuing a scientific
career in India, especially with regards to funding.

Title: Empowering scientists to succeed in India.

Date: 09-June-2010 at 3pm (Social gathering with chai and samosa @2.30pm)

Location: Byers auditorium, Genentech hall, UCSF, 600-16th Street, San Francisco

*Important Note*: We are also planning to organize a one-to-one
~15-minute interaction with Dr. Lohia during which you can consult
with her privately. If interested, please RSVP Minhaj Sirajuddin, minhaj31@gmail.com.

http://www.wellcomedbt.org/
http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/anuradha/

Also, considering that we do not have an efficient way to reach all
Indian post-docs in the Bay Area, we will greatly appreciate if you
help us spread the word to the potentially interested audience.

Hosts at UCSF: Ronald Vale, Minhaj Sirajjuddin, Aathavan Karunakaran

Workshop at the Biophysics Soc. Meeting, Feb 2010 in San Francisco

Will you be at the Biophysical Society Meeting next week? If so, check out this workshop...


"Biosciences in India: Directions, Challenges and Opportunities"

Date: 1-3pm, Tuesday 23rd Feb., 2010.

Venue:
Biophysical Society Annual Meeting,
Moscone Convention Center (Room R124)
747 Howard Street,
San Francisco, California, 94103.

Bioscience research in India is growing at an unprecedented rate. This workshop highlights several opportunities created as a result of increased funding from the Indian government and International funding agencies, formation of new research institutes across the country, and attractive initiatives for new investigators and young scientists. The event will focus on questions encountered by postdocs from US and Europe looking at India for academic faculty positions. The workshop will also highlight opportunities for collaborative research with/in India, and should be helpful to established scientists interested in working with Indian laboratories. This is a unique opportunity to meet with young and dynamic scientists who are involved in building new scientific institutes.

The 2-hour event includes presentations by Indian scientists and an interactive question session. The event is open to all nationalities and to anyone interested in exploring collaborations and careers in India.

Information about research opportunities in India is available on the website www.indiabioscience.org

Speakers:
Jyotsna Dhawan, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)
Sudipta Maiti, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
Mrinalini Puranik, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)