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IISER Bhopal Announces Rolling Recruitment for Associate Professor and Professor Positions || IISER Bhopal Faculty Recruitment 2026: Associate Professor & Professor Posts

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 IISER Bhopal Announces Rolling Recruitment for Associate Professor and Professor Positions Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal) invites applications from accomplished academicians and researchers for Associate Professor and Professor positions across Natural Sciences, Engineering Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences. The Institute seeks candidates with an excellent academic record, demonstrated research excellence, academic leadership, and a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and research. 🏛️ Departments and Academic Areas Faculty positions are available in the following departments: Natural Sciences Biological Sciences Chemistry Earth and Environmental Sciences Mathematics Physics Engineering Sciences Chemical Engineering Data Science and Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Humanities and Social Sciences Economic Sciences Humanities and Social Sciences 👨‍🏫 Associate Professor Candidates applying for the...

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Fungal or Plant Biology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Fungal or Plant Biology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore   Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Fungal or Plant Biology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; A research-intensive public university, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Engineering, Business, Science, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, and Graduate colleges. It also has a medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, established jointly with Imperial College London. NTU is also home to world-class autonomous institutes – the National Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering – and various leading research centres such as the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI) and Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N). Ranked amon...

Daldinia concentrica | King Àlfred's Cake | Cramp Balls | Coal fungus

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Daldinia concentrica  Today we found an interesting fungus Daldinia concentrica which is known by several common names, including King Alfred's cake, cramp balls, and coal fungus. As with other fungi the light spores are distributed globally and the fungi develop wherever conditions are suitable - it lives on dead and decaying wood, and is a common, widespread saprotroph.  Daldinia concentrica (Bolton) Ces. & De Not. - King Alfred's Cakes Phylum: Ascomycota - Class: Sordariomycetes - Order: Xylariales - Family:  Xylariaceae       Daldinia concentrica, mushroom reported by the tribals for the wound healing activity.                             Inside the fruitbody there are concentric silver-grey and black layers (pictured below), from which comes the the specific epithet concentrica. Described in 1791 by British mycologist James Bolton (c. 1735 - 1799), who gave it the scie...

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