ICRISAT seeks applications for Project Scientist I – Computational Biology for IRRI for coordination of activities of rice emerging diseases network project at ISAH and collaborating NAREs partners. The position is within the Rice Breeding Innovations Platform-South Asia Region.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi-arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger, and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.

ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. Please visit – www.icrisat.org

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and implement computational strategies.
• Summarize and display complex data into actionable metrics to inform experimental design/next steps.
• Create and troubleshoot (custom) software in order to enable high throughput analysis pipelines.
• Analyze varied genomic data sets (transcriptomics, resequencing, genome assembly, genome annotation, metagenomics, epigenetics, etc.).
• Develop tools for the manipulation and investigation of NGS datasets.
• Run software and scripts while keeping excellent records.
• Design, execute, review, and interpret experiments to provide recommendations for product development strategies.
• Actively participate in the strategic planning and research meeting of Rice Breeding Planform and Rice Breeding SA Cluster.
• Work with cross-functional teams to implement new technologies into new product development pipelines.

Requirement:

• Masters in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology with 3 years of experience in multi-omics analysis from a recognized research institute/university.
• Proven ability to implement GAB for crop improvement.

How to apply:

Applicants should apply on or before 21 November 2023, with their latest Resume, and the names and contact information of two references that are knowledgeable about their professional qualifications and work experience. All applications will be acknowledged; however, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

ICRISAT is an equal opportunity employer