Advertisement No: NIBMG/ADMIN/ESTB/2026-27/ 048
Position available: Online Interview
Project Title: Expansion of INSACOG - Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2, Emerging
Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance through Genomics-Based Methods
The National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG) is an Institute of Biotechnology Research and
Innovation Council of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. This is the first institution in
India explicitly devoted to research, training, translation & service and capacity-building in Biomedical
Genomics. It is located in Kalyani, West Bengal, India, near Kolkata.
BRIC-NIBMG was an important core laboratory and integral partner of Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic
Consortium (INSACOG) from its establishment during the COVID-19 pandemic, December, 2020. It has
established a nationwide network of laboratories for SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance in phase I and
expanded to include Sewage Surveillance for setting an early alarm system for SARS-CoV-2 community
infection and Hospital Network Study for understanding the the clinical course, severity, risk factors and
outcomes of patients affected with various strains of SARS-CoV-2, in phase II. Now INSACOG is
expanding beyond SARS-CoV-2 to set a pan-India surveillance system for all emerging, known and
priority pathogens (both viral and bacterial) to establish nationwide baseline information for viral and
bacterial pathogens along with their AMR capacity and setting an early warning system for any disease
surge and aid in identifying variants of concern, facilitating timely updates for vaccines and therapeutics.
This multi-institutional project has been funded through Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance
Council (BIRAC), under Grand Challenges India program.
Project
Scientist-I
1
56,000 + 27%
HRA
PhD in Life
Science with
experience in
host/microbial
genomics
Age limit:35 yrs
Experience in
wet lab methods
for bacterial and
viral
identification and
sequencing,
metagenomic and
antimicrobial
resistance
profiling. Peer
reviewed
publications in
the relevant field.
Coordination of the wet lab work
pertaining to the project and
preparing monthly reports as well
as execution of different types of
lab work on bacterial and viral
DNA/RNA isolation and
sequencing, metagenomic and
culturomics study
Online Interview:
This position is contractual, and appointment will be initially upto 08-04-2027, which is
extendable depending upon performance and requirements of the project.
Interested candidates should submit the filled up form to applsmlab.gmail.com with a subject
line “application for the post of (Name of the post)in the project “Expansion of INSACOG -
Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2, Emerging Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance
through Genomics-Based Methods “within 02-06-2026 before 5pm.
