The PhD student wil take part in a project that aims to identify genes that determine the response to anti-TNF treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. This project is part of a collaboration between the department of Human Genetics and the department of Rheumatology.

• Uses and designs diverse molecular and statistical approaches for gene identification
• Works in a team with other scientists and will supervise undergraduate students
• The project will be completed with a dissertation

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Fully funded University International Research Scholarships are available for high quality international students who will be commencing PhD research study from Session 2009-2010 for study in any Faculty at the University of Leeds.  As applicants will only be considered if they have received an offer of an academic place for PhD research study from the University of Leeds, applicants are advised to submit their application for an academic place as soon as possible and well before 31 January 2009.

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Researcher/Postdoc Experimental Linguistics/Computational Linguistics/Phonetics Applications are invited for a two-year researcher/postdoc at the Department of Scandinavian Studies/ Information Science, Faculty of Arts, Center for Language and Cognition Groningen. The successful applicant will join the projects ‘Linguistic determinants of mutual intelligibility in Scandinavia’ and/or ‘Mutual intelligibility of language varieties in the Low Countries: linguistic and attitudinal determinants’ which are both funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The aim of the projects is to refine newly developed computational methods in order to quantify communicatively relevant similarity between closely related languages and language varieties. The similarity measurements will be used to develop a model for predicting and explaining mutual intelligibility. The candidate will cooperate closely with a PhD-student and a senior researcher.

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