Faculty members at IBAB pursue their independent research programs in frontier areas of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, offering valuable opportunity for ambitious students to pursue a career in science through our PhD programme.
The institute has state-of-the-art infrastructure, including high-end equipment and computing resources for the use by researchers. Doctoral students at IBAB get high quality research training which includes course work, conference presentations in India and possibly abroad, scientific writing and publishing. Candidates can register for a PhD with either Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) or The University of Trans-disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU).
We welcome applications for the PhD programme from candidates who wish to join our research teams in the fields of
- Cancer Biology
- Computational Biology
- Epigenetics
- Genomics
- Infectious Disease Biology
- Mathematical Biology
- Microbiology
- Molecular Parasitology
- Structural Bioinformatics
- Structural Biology
- Synthetic Biology
- Systems Biology
The research fellows have full access to high end research facilities, which include cell and molecular-biology equipment, culture facilities, fluorescence microscopes, FACS, HPLC/FPLC and 2D electrophoresis systems, DLS, DDPCRs, NGS sequencing facility comprising a HiSeq 2500 Sequencer, HiScan Beadchip Scanner and other accessories and equipment needed for high throughput sequencing. The institute has dedicated research laboratories, and an animal house needed for translational research. In addition our reserchers have access to other high-end instruments such as confocal microscope, mass spectrometer, LCMS, robotic liquid handling equipment and other specialized facilities available at BBC (Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre) next door, which is part of the Biotech Park.
The institute is also equipped with high-end servers and high-performance computing clusters essential for research in big data and computational biology.
UNIQUENESS OF THE PhD AT IBAB
An opportunity to work in a truly multi-disciplinary environment, comprising mathematical biology, systems biology and experimental biology.