The Biotechnology Centre is setting up a Bioinformatics Service Unit. We are now offering postdoc job positions for 3 Postdoctoral Fellows who will conduct research and development in collaboration with other scientists at the Biotechnology Center in Germany. The life-sciences campus in Dresden offers a very competitive research setting including a 3,000 node supercomputer at the university as well as strong local partners applying latest experimental technologies. The interdisciplinary Biotechnology Center provides a stimulating, international environment for leading research. The computing hardware at the Institute includes cutting edge database servers and a cluster for parallel computation. The positions are initially offered for two years and further extension will be possible. The period of employment is governed by the Fixed Term Research Contracts Act (WissZeitVG) .

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The Cross Talk project is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network, that brings together 8 academic participants, 2 industrial partners and 3 associated partners. Their association promotes complementarities of expertise in several scientific research fields, supporting an early-stage training program.

Cross Talk has the overall objective to achieve major breakthroughs in the understanding of the mechanisms underlying the dialogue between the intestinal microbiota and hosts. To reach this aim, Cross Talk will: (more…)

PhD Research Grant and PhD Teaching Assistant Opportunities At both entities (UHasselt and K.U.Leuven) of I-BioStat

Over the coming weeks, a variety of opportunities for 4-year PhD research grants and 6-year teaching assistant (also leading to a PhD) positions will become available.

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For International Students: International PhD Program Tuebingen (Germany), Spring 2009.

The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tuebingen invite applications for PhD positions in following areas:

• Cell Biology
• Biochemistry
• Developmental Genetics
• Structural Biology
• Quantitative Genetics
• Plant Development
• Evolutionary Biology
• Bioinformatics

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