Updated : October 2025

I. Collaborations and long-term lab exchanges:

Our lab is open to collaborative and exchange visits from other research institutions. These are typically initiated by PIs who would like to send over students or post-docs on collaborative projects. We look forward especially to long-term visits involving projects of mutual interest."

II. Project positions:

The Bhalla lab is currently focussing on completion of several ongoing projects, and therefore does not expect to open JRF positions for 2025. We appreciate the interest of many students for such positions, but at present we will have to decline requests for internships, JRFs, project trainees, project assistants, research assistants, or similar positions where the candidate would like to work on an NCBS-funding position for a short period of a few months.  Therefore I am not able to take even very talented applicants for those positions. Depending on grant outcomes, we may have a JRF position opening for people with strong analytic skills and preferably experience with mass-spectrometry work, and if this comes through we will announce it towards the end of November 2025.
I encourage such applicants to also consider the work of other researchers at NCBS. Strong quantitative skills are desirable in many areas of biology.

III. Summer student and short-term trainees:

For the present and coming year (2025-2026) the lab has already accepted two applications through the Indian Academy of Sciences summer student programme, and will not be hosting any further summer students or trainees for this year. Any people interested for the next year should apply through next year's Indian Academy of Sciences programme directly which has its own student assignment process.

IV. Internships:

We understand that many students have internship requirements. Our experience is that these are not productive unless they involve a substantial, full-time, on-site project for at least a year. We are also unable to help with internships where students have some months of experience required for their Master's program at a college.