BIOTEC welcomes new or recent doctorates in the fields of molecular biology, molecular genetics, microbiology, biochemistry and biotechnology. The following research topics are currently open for postdoctoral fellows: 1. Immunostimulation and viral infection in shrimp and crab. 2. Genomic and proteomic characterization of Laem Singh virus (LSNV), a new shrimp pathogen found in Thailand. 3. Protein structure determination to understand structure-function relationship and catalytic mechanism in human malaria. 4. Integrated computational tools for antimalarial drug design. 5. Post-genomics studies for identification of potential antimalarial targets. 6. Identification of pfDHFR-TS translational control complex. 7. In order to be eligible, applicants must have recently received their doctoral degree during the past two or three years. The Fellowship provides a stipend for upto two years (rate is subject to applicants’ experience), plus health insurance, one round trip ...

Image retrieval consists in finding among a database of target images those which represent the same scene as this represented by a query image. In this context, the key-point is the extraction of efficient descriptors from the images. Several recent studies have shown that color histograms can be very efficient in this context. However, color histograms do not take into account the spatial arrangement of colors and are very sensitive to illumination changes. Several authors have shown that the spatial organization of colors could significantly improve the performance of the image classifiers. Some spatial descriptors, such as color correlograms, may be used to represent in a global way the spatial arrangement of colors in the image, but they are sensitive to object occlusion and scale variation and are not designed to recognize objects in cluttered scenes. In very recent works, few searchers propose to extract local descriptors such as SIFT or SURF which have been proven to be more ro...

The European Commission has launched a call to fund scholarships for the study of MA programmes in European integration. The scholarship of the European Commission covers up to €20,000 per student per academic year to cover fees and subsistence costs. For details on the scholarship, see this link . In total, approximately 150 scholarships will be available. The UCD School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin invites applications to its MA in European Studies from citizens of European Neighbourhood Policy countries or Russia, who possess a first academic degree in either the social sciences or humanities (BA), and are in command of the English language. Interested students should apply to the UCD School of Politics and International Relations through the normal channels by Wednesday, 28 May 2008, and normal entry procedures apply. For details of the application procedure, see http://www.ucd.ie/spire/grad_admissions.html . UCD will then recommend to the Eu...