Postdoctoral studies in Biochemistry and Biophysics

At
the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.

The department conducts a broad spectrum of biomedical research and education within medical biochemistry and biophysics. Presently our department consists of 11 research divisions with a total of approximately 300 employees.

Description of the research project/area of research
The group uses a system structural biology approach to study function and mechanism of enzymes that catalyze protein modifications (ADP-ribose transferases in particular) with emphasis on implications for cancer.

The focus of the current position will be on the biochemical characterization of ADP-ribose transferases. The group applies X-ray crystallography and a wide range of biophysical and biochemical techniques to study protein function. The laboratory has a strong track record in the use of high throughput technologies for protein production, crystallization and structure analysis. The laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments for protein chemistry, biophysics, crystallography, and high throughput technologies.

The project is initially for one year.

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Postdoctoral Fellowships in Japanese Studies, Harvard University, USA

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University will offer several postdoctoral fellowships in Japanese studies to recent PhDs of exceptional promise, to give them the opportunity to turn their dissertation into publishable manuscripts.
The Fellowship Grant:

1. Each fellowship will cover a 10-month period, beginning September 1, 2011, with a stipend of $44,000 health insurance coverage for the grantee and research/travel funds.
2. Postdoctoral fellows will be provided office space, and access to the libraries and resources of Harvard University.

Responsibilities of Postdoctoral Fellows:
Residence in the Cambridge/Boston area and participation in Institute activities are required during the appointment. Postdoctoral fellows will be expected to give a presentation at the Reischauer Institute’s Japan Forum lecture series. During their term of appointment, postdoctoral fellows will be expected to contribute to the teaching program at Harvard, normally by offering one undergraduate course during the fall or spring semester of the academic year. Areas of particular interest for 2011-12 tentatively include Japanese film; Japanese popular culture; Meiji history; Japanese imperialism/war memory; gender and politics in East Asia; political economy of Japan; and Japanese-Americans in history, culture, politics, and/or society. Broader courses that include, but are not limited to, Japan are especially encouraged.

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14 PhD positions in Biology, University of Groningen, NL

Job opportunities in the Systems Biology Centre for Metabolism and Ageing

We are recruiting 14 PhD students/postdocs from various disciplines relevant for Systems Biology, including biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, bioinformatics, statistics, mathematics and theoretical biology.

Scientific excellence and enthusiasm will be the most important criteria for selection. Previous experience in Systems Biology or in research related to metabolism and/or ageing research is advantageous but not required.

Each of the 14 positions will be filled by either a postdoc or a PhD student. Postdoc positions will be for 3 years, PhD positions for 4 years. The conditions of employment comply with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Medical Centres / Dutch Universities. Successful applicants will be linked to specific projects, based on their own interests and the needs of the Centre.

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Schlumberger Foundation Fellowships for Women from Developing Countries

2011 Faculty for the Future Fellowships. Developing and emerging economies to pursue PhD or post-doctoral studies in the physical sciences and related disciplines at top universities abroad. The Faculty for the Future program grows each year and has become a powerful community that today stands at 142 pioneering women scientists from 43 countries.
Faculty for the Future fellowships are awarded to women from developing and emerging economies who are preparing for PhD or post-doctoral study in the physical sciences, engineering, or related disciplines to pursue advanced graduate study at top universities in their disciplines abroad.

Eligibility
Applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Be a woman;
• Be a citizen of a developing country;
• Wish to pursue a PhD degree or Post-doctoral research in the physical sciences or related disciplines;
• Have applied to, have been admitted to, or are currently enrolled in a university abroad;
• Wish to return to their home country to continue their academic career upon completion of their studies;
• Be very committed to teaching and demonstrate active participation in faculty life and outreach work to encourage young women into the sciences;
• Hold an excellent academic record.

How to apply
Applications are only accepted through the on-line system www.fftf.slb.com. Note that the on-line system will be open from September 1 to November 30 2010.
Please do not write before this date asking for application forms or submitting CVs, transcripts, or any other documents. We will not be able to respond.

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PhD & Postdoctoral Positions in Neuroimaging, Europe

Neurophysics: 8 PhD positions and 2 Post-doc positions in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany or Belgium in the field of Neuroimaging.
FMRI is a fast developing technique that permits addressing core questions in cognitive neuroscience in the human brain. The future of this technique resides in pushing hardware to permit ultra-high field scanning at superior spatial resolution, developing advanced data analysis, and combining the technique with other approaches, including EEG, TMS, PET, as well as pharmacology and molecular biology. These goals are pursued by a consortium of 4 partners consisting of Maastricht University (Brain Imaging Centre), Research Centre Juelich (MR Physics), University of Liege (Cyclotron Research Centre) and Glaxo-Smith- Kline (Clinical Imaging Centre London). Funding comes from a Marie-Curie Initial Training Network grant.

Description
To advance research goals at the consortium, we are looking for applicants who
(1) show a drive to investigate a core question in cognitive neuroscience which can be theoretical (e.g., perception, attention, memory) or more clinical in nature (e.g., dementia, neurofeedback in locked-in patients);
(2) are motivated to use and/or help engineer cutting-edge methods of data acquisition (physics) and data analysis;
(3) enjoy the (technical) challenges of working in an integrative, multidisciplinary environment. Relevant backgrounds include engineering, physics, mathematics, advanced statistics and data analysis, molecular biology, software programming, computational modelling, and cognitive neuroscience. The ideal candidate combines skills from several of these disciplines.

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Postdoc at NTU Singapore (p2p storage, security)

A post-doctoral position (for a period of 12-18 months) is available at the School of Computer Engineering in NTU Singapore. The candidate should have strong background in distributed systems and security. The project for which the candidate is being sought is related to fine-grained access control in peer-to-peer storage systems, and with applications to decentralized online social networks.

The position is with the SANDS research group at NTU: group webpage http://sands.sce.ntu.edu.sg/
and PI's web-page http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/anwitaman/

NTU Singapore in general, and also SANDS research group has a very international/cosmopolitan environment, and has strong international collaborations with academia (particularly in Europe) as well as industry.

Singapore prides itself to be on the silk-way of Asia's knowledge economy, and is also well situated and connected. The quality of living is very high, while the cost of living compared to developed countries is relatively low, and a very competitive (and somewhat negotiable) compensation package is offered.

The candidate should be available to join latest by August 2010. The candidate should have defended his Phd before August 2010. To apply, please email your CV to anwitaman@ntu.edu.sg

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PostDoc position in the project ‘ENERGY EFFICIENT ACTUATIONS’

The University of Twente is an entrepreneurial research university, located about 200 km from Amsterdam in Enschede, a city in Twente, the garden of the Netherlands with excellent recreation facilities. Organized over 5 faculties, the UT offers 20 educational programs ranging from applied physics, public and business administration, communication studies and diverse programs in engineering technology. Research takes place within the context of institutes and focuses, among other things, on nanotechnology, information and communication technology (CTIT), biomedical technology, policy studies, construction management & engineering, and mechanics. More than 7,000 students and 2,700 staff members live, work and recreate at the UT, the Netherlands’ only campus university with a park-like atmosphere and numerous sporting facilities. In the Control Engineering (CE) Laboratory of the faculty of
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science we have a vacancy

PostDoc position in the project ‘ENERGY EFFICIENT ACTUATIONS’ at the University of Twente

The ENERGY EFFICIENT ACTUATIONS Project
This project aims at developing actuation technologies for a new generation of robots that can co-exist and co-operate with people and get much closer to the human manipulation and locomotion performance than today’s robots do. At the same time these robots are expected to be safe, in the sense that interacting with them should not constitute a higher injury risk to humans than the interaction with another cautious human.

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Student Internship Positions at Los Alamos National Lab

The Socio-technical Modeling and Simulation team in the Information Sciences Group (CCS-3) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has projects in modeling and simulation spanning the full range of research activities from problem analysis, algorithmic and system design, to implementation, testing and applications of our tools. Our work covers a diverse and ever-expanding spectrum of application

domains with a focus on infrastructure modeling; our current portfolio includes communication networks, transportation networks, commodity networks, epidemic modeling, agent-based activity modeling, and social networks. Our simulations model large-scale socio-technological systems with high fidelity. To tackle the scalability challenge, we implement our systems on high-performance distributed computing clusters. Most of our students have been able to publish their work done here in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

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11 PhD positions, Frankfurt University

Call for 11 PhD-positions

The graduate school

Value and Equivalence. The genesis and transformation of values from an archaeological and anthropological perspective"

offers

11 PhD-positions (funding for 2 years with a possible extension by a third year)to start at 01.04.2010

The graduate school, which is based at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main and the Technische Universität Darmstadt, focuses on concepts of value and equivalence in relation to material culture in a broad geographical and chronological framework.

The call includes

- 1 PhD-position in Archaeology and Cultural History of the Near East
- 1 PhD-position in Cuneiform Studies
- 1 PhD-position in Classical Archaeology at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
- 1 PhD-position in Classical Archaeology at the Technische Universität Darmstadt
- 2 PhD-positions in Archaeology and History of the Roman provinces /Auxiliary sciences (Epigraphy, Numismatics, Papyrology)
- 1 PhD-position in Prehistory of Europe
- 1 PhD-position in Prehistory of Africa
- 3 PhD-positions in Social Anthropology, centring on Africa, North-America and Southeast Asia resp.

The PhD-positions consist of a monthly stipend of EUR 1200, plus expenses and family and/or children allowances (where eligible).

The graduate school and the universities involved conduct an equal opportunities policy and therefore explicitly encourage women to apply for the PhD-positions. Given equal qualifications disabled persons will be given preference. The Goethe Universität was entitled to the `Audit-Familiengere chte Hochschule' in 2005. The Goethe Universität strives to create a family friendly work environment.

Applications, together with the required documents described on the homepage, are to be sent in no later than 29.01.2010, to the speaker of the graduate school(either by post or e-mail):

Prof. Dr. Hans-Markus von Kaenel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Abt. II, Grüneburgplatz 1, Fach 136, D-60323 Frankfurt a. M., v.kaenel@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Call for 2 Postdoc-positions

2 Postdoc-positions (2 years each)to start at 01.04.2010

The graduate school, which is based at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main and the Technische Universität Darmstadt, focuses on concepts of value and equivalence in relation to material culture in a broad geographical and chronological framework.

The call includes:

1 Postdoc-position in Prehistory of Europe
1 Postdoc-position in Social Anthropology

The Postdoc-positions consist of a monthly stipend of EUR 1365, plus expenses and family and/or children allowances (where eligible)

The graduate school and the universities involved conduct an equal opportunities policy and therefore explicitly encourage women to apply for the PhD-positions. Given equal conditions disabled persons will be given preference. The Goethe Universität was entitled to the `Audit-Familiengere chte Hochschule' in 2005. The Goethe Universität strives to create a family friendly work environment.

Applications, together with the required documents described on the homepage, are to be sent in no later than 29.01.2010, to the speaker of the graduate school (either by post or e-mail):

Prof. Dr. Hans-Markus von Kaenel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitä t Frankfurt, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Abt. II, Grüneburgplatz 1, Fach 136, D-60323 Frankfurt a. M., v.kaenel@em.uni-frankfurt.de

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Post-Doctoral position Mechanosensitive channels in plants

A 2-years post-doctoral position Mechanosensitive
channels in plants

A 24-month post-doctoral
position in the area of ion channel physiology funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) is available starting April 2010. The host group “Membrane Transporters and Signalling Laboratory” (http://www.isv.cnrs-gif.fr/isv/recherche/hbb/hbb.html)
belong to the "Institut des Sciences du Végétal" (ISV) located on the CNRS campus
of Gif sur Yvette, at 30 km south west of Paris.

Although plants respond to a wide variety of mechanical stimuli, and many mechanosensitive channel activities have been characterized in plant membranes using the patch-clamp method, the molecular nature of mechanoperception in plant systems has remained elusive. We recently showed that the MSL9 and MSL10 proteins relatives of the E. coli MscS (Mechanosensitive channel of Small conductance) might function cooperatively and provide mechanosensitive channel activities at the plasma membrane
of Arabidopsis root cells (Curr. Biol., 18: 730-734, 2008; Plant Signaling & Behavior, 3:726-729,2008).

The first objective of the project is to characterize the electrophysiologica l properties of MSL9,MSL10 and other members of the MSL family (homologous system and bilayer). This part will be done in close collaboration with A. Ghazi 's lab (IBBMC, Orsay). The second objective will be to enlighten the functions of the MSL channels as sensor of vibrations in aerial part of the plant. This will be conducted by a
multidisciplinary approach involving, electrophysiology, molecular biology and modelling in cooperation with other partners of the project. Salary ~ 2000€/month

Applicants should hold a PhD and have a good experience in electrophysiology and, possibly, in molecular biology. A background in plant biology would be an added value but is not required. English but not French is required.

Candidates should send a CV with a brief summary of research experience, a list of publications and the names and addresses of 3 contact information referees to Jean-Marie Frachisse (frachisse@isv. cnrs-gif. fr).
institu t des
sciences du
végétal

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