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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES
NEW DELHI – 110 067

Date: July 4th, 2023

Applications are invited for the post of Project Staff (two-post) in a DST-funded project entitled “Role of Conditioned Learning and Sleep in Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in the Rat,” Sleep Research Laboratory, the School of Life Sciences, JNU. The candidate will be selected strictly as per the rules and guidelines issued by the DST, Govt. of India.

Essential Qualifications: B.Sc., B.Tech, or B.A. in any discipline with a minimum of five years of working experience in an animal research laboratory.

Desirable Qualifications: Well conversant in performing fear-conditioning, Immunostaining, stereotaxic surgery, and Sleep recording in rats and mice.

Duration of the project: Three years

Last Date for sending the application: July 20th, 2023

Application along with resume can be sent through post to: Dr. Sushil Jha, Project Investigator, Room 208, SLS, JNU New Delhi-110067, or it can be emailed to
sushilkjha@mail.jnu.ac.in. Applications must be received in my office or through email on or before July 20th, 2023, at 5 PM.

Please note: the application received after the date and time will not be considered for shortlisting.

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.