Application form

Please fill out all the details below to apply.

Read here to find out about participant categories.

Please note:

  • Both Postdoctoral Fellows (PDFs) and Young Investigators (YIs) are required to submit an experience letter with the application. 
  • Responses cannot be edited after submission. If you need to make any changes, submit the form again before the deadline. We will consider only your latest submission.
  • Please select the category under which you are applying for YIM (Young Investigator or Postdoctoral Fellow). The experience letter upload field will appear once you select the appropriate category. Applications submitted without an experience letter will be considered incomplete.

Application deadline: 5 October 2026 (11:59 PM IST)

Please write to yim2027[at]indiabioscience[dot]org if you have any questions. 

Applying As 
Past editions that you have attended
⚠️ You are not eligible to apply. You have selected a category in which you have already attended YIM. As per the eligibility criteria, applicants can attend YIM only once in each category.
⚠️ You are not eligible to apply. You have selected a category in which you have already attended YIM. As per the eligibility criteria, applicants can attend YIM only once in each category.

Please mention the location (e.g., YIM 2025, Agra).

Gender 
Current academic stage 
Address

If you have a different/older affiliation that you would like to list for this work, enter the institution name and address.

Please explain why you would like to attend the Young Investigators' Meeting and what you hope to gain from it. Tell us about your career goals, how attending the meeting will benefit you, and how you will contribute to the meeting. Your response will be an important part of the selection process, as the number of participants is limited.

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Please write your thoughts and plans on starting an independent research career in India.

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Mention your focus area of research. Examples: Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Computational Biology, Conservation Biology, Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, Marine Biology, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Plant Biology, Structural Biology, Synthetic Biology, Systems Biology, Wildlife Biology.

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List 5 keywords, one on each line.

Please provide a summary of your research interests, including an overview of your past and current work along with your future plans. What are you doing? How are you doing it? Why do you think that it is important?

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List up to 4 of your research papers. Please ensure that you use this citation format: Prud’homme B, Minervino C, Hocine M, Cande JD, Aouane A, Dufour HD, Kassner VA & Gompel N. 2011. Repeated morphological evolution through cis-regulatory changes in a pleiotropic gene. Nature 440: 1050-3.

This includes the abstract and any references you want to include for this work. Formatting style for references: Prud’homme B, Minervino C, Hocine M, Cande JD, Aouane A, Dufour HD, Kassner VA & Gompel N. 2011. Repeated morphological evolution through cis-regulatory changes in a pleiotropic gene. Nature 440: 1050-3.

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This includes the abstract and any references you want to include for this work. Formatting style for references: Prud’homme B, Minervino C, Hocine M, Cande JD, Aouane A, Dufour HD, Kassner VA & Gompel N. 2011. Repeated morphological evolution through cis-regulatory changes in a pleiotropic gene. Nature 440: 1050-3.

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List one name on each line.

This can be a results-based graphic or an image of your study model/species.

JPEG, PNG, or PDF formats, max file size 25MB, min resolution 300dpi, preferred size 2400 × 3600px.

Provide one sentence explaining the image attached.

Please download and use the YIM CV Template

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Experience letter from your institute (stating experience <5 years of starting an independent research group).

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Experience letter from your institute/ supervisor/ advisor (stating experience <5 years of starting an independent research group).

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If you are done with all the above fields, please go ahead and submit the application. If you face issues while submitting the application, please send an email to yim2027[at]indiabioscience[dot]org.
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