Junior Research Fellow (JRF) Position – DBT Funded Research Project(with PhD track opportunity)Looking for a strongly motivated Junior Research Fellow to join on a fully funded Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India- Emerging Frontiers in Biotechnology project at the Department of Life Sciences, GITAM University BangaloreThe project: Translation Activation by SPEAR RNA-elements in 3’ Untranslated Regions of Viral RNAs- A Potential Target of Antiviral TherapyBriefly, we recently described that a viral RNA element in SARS-CoV-2, closely related to a human RNA element, binds to an unconventional host multiprotein complex and boosts translation. Now I want to understand how widespread this mechanism is in other medically important RNA viruses, and if the molecular interactions can be targeted to design broad-acting antivirals. If you are motivated to work on molecular biology, RNA biology, biochemistry, proteomics, and therapeutic peptide approaches, and to fight emerging a...