The Infection Immunology Lab, BSED is now accepting applications for short-term summer internships and long-term dissertation projects. We specialise in providing intensive, hands-on training in Cell Culture, Infection Microbiology, and Molecular Biology.

🔬 Advance Your Research Career in Infection Immunology!

If you are looking for genuine hands-on experience in biotechnology involving Cell Culture, Infection Microbiology and Molecular Biology, select one of the portfolios below,

Portfolios

A: Internship 

         Mammalian Cell Culture  (or) PCR standardizations/qPCR

Dissertation/Training

B: Standard level 

1. Mammalian cell cryopreservation and revival
2. Differentiation of human monocytes to macrophages
3. Cell counting and Live/Dead staining
4. Preparation of bacterial cultures for infection
5. Infection of human macrophages with bacterial pathogens
6. Enumeration of extracellular and intracellular bacteria
7. RNA isolation and cDNA synthesis
8. Primer designing
9. PCR standardizations
10. qPCR

C: Advance level

1. Transcriptomics (RNA-Seq)
2. LC-MS/MS acquisition and analysis
3. CRISPR-Cas9 Gene editing
4. CRISPR-Cas9 Knock-out generation (Bacteria/Mammalian)

Consumable Fees structure :

• Program A: Internship or Short Training program (2–3 Months): Rs. 16,500/-
• Program B: Standard Dissertation and Training program (5–6 Months): Rs. 30,000/-
• Program C: Advanced Dissertation and Training program (6-12 Months): The cost exceeds the standard due to expensive consumables (please contact the faculty in-charge with a research plan that could align with the lab's research interest)

Important Note: In accordance with NITC Notification (No. R&C/PhD/2023-24 dated 13.06.2023), candidates are required to pay One-Time Project Implementation (OTPI) Fee in addition to the consumable costs, based on the duration of stay. The fee has to be deposited only to the institute bank account through online/UPI methods and details of the institute bank accounts will be provided on the day of joinig the program.

OTPI Fee Structure based on duration

3 Months- Rs.2000-/-

5-6 Months- Rs. 5000-/-

6-12 Months- Rs. 7500-/-

To join the program, please submit the following:

1. Application addressing HoD BSED 

2. Bonafide certificate from college (Only for current students, if already completed produce degree certificate) 

3. Parent/Guardian Letter

4. Payment of fee (Consumable + OTPI) on the day of joining to the institute UPI ID at BSED office.

⚠️ Limited Seats Available.
Contact cecil@nitc.ac.in today to discuss your research interests and secure your spot! Interested candidates are encouraged to get in touch with us directly to discuss specific training portfolios and seat availability. Internship/Dissertation programs are for UG/PG students whereas the tranings programs are for people who have completed their UG/PG and planning for abroad MS or PhD. So, traning programs are gap filling programs from 6-12 months duration where the candidate furnishes his/her resume with morden/advanced molecular Immunology techniques.

(Note: Traning programs does not have any age limit for applying, especially the work/research plan has to be discussed in advance with the faculty in-charge)

KINDLY FILL THE GOOGLE FORM IF INTERESTED IN JOINING THE INTERNSHIP/DISSERTATION TRAINING

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Thank you

1. N. N, Ali AM, K. P. S, Mehto S and Antony C (2026) Modulation of macrophage survival during Klebsiella pneumoniae infections. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 16:1757662. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2026.1757662

2. Deepika Sharma, Subhash Mehto, Brijender Tiwari, Cecil Antony, Yogendra Singh and Krishnamurthy Natarajan. “Suppression of protective responses upon activation of L-type Voltage Gated Calcium Channel in macrophages during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. PLoS One. 2016 Oct 10;11(10):e0163845

3. Subhash Mehto, Cecil Antony, Nabab Khan, Rahul Arya, Arti Selvakumar, Brijendra Tiwari, Yogendra Singh, Sahid Jameel, and Krishnamurthy Natarajan “Mycobacterium tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 cooperatively modulate macrophage apoptosis via Toll Like Receptor 2 and calcium homeostasis” PLoS ONE, 2015; 10(7): e0131767

4. Cecil Antony, Subhash Mehto, Brijendra K Tiwari, Yogendra Singh, and Krishnamurthy Natarajan “Regulation of L-type Voltage Gated Calcium Channel CACNA1S in macrophages upon Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection” PLos ONE 2015;10(4): e0124263

5. Aneesh Chandran, Cecil Antony, Leny Jose, Sathish Mundayoor, Krishnamurthy Natarajan and Ajay Kumar “Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection induces HDAC1 mediated suppression of IL-12B gene expression in macrophages” Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 2015, 5:90

6. Arti Selvakumar, Cecil Antony, Jhalak Singhal, Brijendra K. Tiwari, Yogendra Singh and Krishnamurthy Natarajan "Reciprocal Regulation of Reactive Oxygen Species and phospho-CREB Regulates Voltage Gated Calcium Channel Expression During Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection” PLos ONE, 2014; 9(5): e96427

7. Deepti Gupta, Sachin Sharma, Jhalak Singhal, Akash T. Satsangi, Cecil Antony and Krishnamurthy Natarajan. “Suppression of TLR2 Induced Interleukin-12, Reactive Oxygen Species, Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression by Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antigens Expressed Inside Macrophages During the Course of Infection” Journal of Immunology, 2010;184;5444-5455

As an infection immunologist I have been studying the host-pathogen interaction to elucidate the suppressor responses induced by intracellular pathogen Mtb. I am also interested in isolating high affinity peptides/antibodies against viral/bacterial antigens by harnessing combinatorial peptide/antibody libraries.

Currently, the pathogens in which I am interested to explore the host-pathogen interactions are as follows,

• Klebsiella pneumoniae

• Staphylococcus aureus

• Enterococcus spp

• Enterobacter spp

• Pseudomonas aeruginosa

• Acinetobacter baumannii