The PhD student will contribute to the cooperative research project “Identification of molecular markers for barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) resistance in maize” between the MPIPZ, the Julius Kühn Institute, and plant breeding companies. The overall objective of this research project is to set the stage for marker assisted breeding of BYDV resistant maize. In order to achieve this, the pheno- and genotypic variation for BYDV resistance in segregating populations of maize as well as in an association mapping population will be assessed.

Job description

The main tasks of the successful candidate are:

• Plan, perform, and analyze field and green house trials
• Genotype molecular markers in candidate genome regions
• Identify genome-regions contributing to phenotypic variation
• Analyse data and prepare scientific publications

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The Multimedia Signal Processing Group at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, invites applications for PhD and Postdoc positions, with a yearly renewable contract, for a maximum duration of 4 years.

The PhD and Postdoc Research Grants are available in accordance with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) regulations and payments for advanced training and qualification of human resources, see http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores.

The Multimedia Signal Processing Group develops research in the areas of visual information analysis, modeling, processing, manipulation, representation, adaptation, coding and description for multimedia applications.

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The School of Law is offering a number of studentships for the 2011-12 academic year. We are now open to accept new applications for these awards. Please read the instructions below carefully before submitting your funding application and your main PhD application.

The Department of Law is particularly keen to support studentship applications in the following areas:

• Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
• Public Law
• Equality, Diversity and the Law (joint studentship with the Queen Mary Centre for Equality and Diversity).

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More than 100 PhD funding awards for 2011 entry

We are offering more than 100 funding awards for PhD students for 2011 entry to show our commitment to developing the next generation of researchers.
Ranked 12th in the Times Good University Guide 2011, we are a research intensive university with a strong reputation. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, all our 31 subjects were assessed as including world-leading (4*) research and nearly 90 per cent of our research was rated as being internationally recognised.

PhD funding is available in science, arts, humanities and social sciences subjects. Awards vary according to the subject area and range from full studentships covering all fees and a maintenance grant for three years to partial funding.

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