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Application for Summer Training,Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati, IITG) Guwahati - 781039, INDIA

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati, IITG)
Guwahati - 781039, INDIA



Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati, IITG) is a public institution established by the Government of India, located in Guwahati, in the state of Assam in India. It is the sixth Indian Institute of Technology established in India.IIT Guwahati is officially recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the government of India. The history of IIT Guwahati traces its roots to the 1985 Assam Accord signed between the All Assam Students Union and the Government of India, which mentions the general improvement in education facilities in Assam and specifically the setting up of an IIT.
Summer Training 
The department offers Summer Training in multidisciplinary areas of biotechnology to both undergraduate & graduate students of science & engineering disciplines. The major thrust of the department includes biochemical engineering, plant biotechnology, nanobiotechnology, protein biophysics & proteomics, industrial biotechnology & bioengineering, in addition to providing state of the art facilities in these core areas. The department also has in-house activities related to animal cell-culture facility for screening bioactive compounds with therapeutic applications and a plant tissue culture facility for mass multiplication.

Eligibility: Applicant must have to complete three years, i.e., six semesters in the B.Tech. / B.E. Computer Science program by the summer of 2017. Interested candidates should fill up and submit an online application form available after you register.

The Department offers training to the external students only during summer vacation from May to July every year for a duration of maximum 10 weeks.
Students can work in any of the following areas: 

 Protein structure, dynamics & aggregation 
 Molecular biophysics 
 Protein engineering & protein function 
 Structural-function-folding relationship 
 Enzyme and Microbial Technology 
 Biocatalysis, Biosensor & Biofuel cell 
 Plant Cell and Tissue Culture 
 Plant Genetic Engineering 
 Gene Therapy for Viral and Metabolic Diseases 
 Biological Control of Insect Pests 
 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Carbohydrate Enzymes 
 Fungal Biotechnology and Bio-pesticides 
 Molecular Fingerprinting and Expression Systems in Food Grade bacteria 
 Environmental bioremediation, Bioprocess development (upstream to downstream) 
 Metabolic Engineering 
 Stem Cell Biology 
 Hormone regulated Gene Expression

Deadline for online applications: 28th February, 2017

Duration of the Summer Internship: 15th May to 15th July, 2017






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