Postdoctoral positions are immediately available to study breast cancer metastasis at the Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Individuals with experience on biochemistry and molecular biology are preferred. Application Interested candidates are invited to forward their CV and names of three references via e-mail to: Binhua P. Zhou, MD., Ph.D. Assistant Professor The Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX e-mail: bpzhou@utmb.edu Website: http://www.utmb.edu/scccb/ZhouB.htm

Two PhD students in biomedical engineering (one computational and one experimental) are sought at ETH Zurich within an international collaborative project with The University of Western Australia and the University of Bern, Switzerland. The goal of this project is to improve the understanding of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) and to find novel treatments for this condition. Job description and candidate profile (computational position) The successful candidate is expected to work on the combined computational and analytical modeling of the interaction of intracranial blood flow with the dynamics of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The basis of the models will be magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets. This candidate must have a: * Master degree or equivalent in mechanical or biomedical engineering or a similar field * Solid background in applied computational fluid dynamics (CFD) * Programming experience in C, Fortran or other high-level languages * Solid command ...

What might you gain while pursuing post-doctoral research in the Yin lab? 1. Hands-on training in the emerging and exciting area of systems biology, focusing on virus-host interactions, 2. Experience in how to integrate research, teaching and learning (see www.delta.wisc.edu) — skills that are highly valued by academic employers and funding agencies, 3. Guidance by a mentor who has a strong record of placing students and post-docs in stimulating academic (Caltech, Duke, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Tufts, UConn-Storrs, UC-Berkeley), government, and industry positions, 4. Opportunities for personal growth at a world-class university, located in safe, attractive and affordable city surrounded by beautiful lakes. We are advancing new technologies to better understand the growth, spread and evolution of viruses. Active NIH-supported projects are in three areas: (1) flow-enhanced spread and characterization of infections in microfluidic devices, (2) phenotype distributions from measu...

Model Based Development (MBD) has established itself as the key approach to software engineering of increasingly complex systems in automotive and aerospace domains. It has proved successful at managing complexity associated with functionality. A new approach is to use model-based techniques also for quality evaluation and predictions. Since most of quality attributes such as performance, reliability, availability, safety, and security have a probabilistic nature, probabilistic verification techniques are the best solution to perform model-based quality evaluation. The research project shall explore the possibilities of probabilistic modelling and verification techniques to reason about quality attributes early in the software development lifecycle. To get a detailed introduction into this research project please have a look at the following background literature: - Controller dependability analysis by probabilistic model checking (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2006.07.003) - ...

Partial fee waiver scholarships available to International students to undertake a Development related Masters in one of the following postgraduate taught programmes within the Institute for Development Policy & Management, University of Manchester: * MSc Organisational Change & Development * MSc International Development: Urban Development * MSc Globalisation & Development * MSc Industry, Trade & Development * MSc Development Finance * MA International Development: Public Policy & Management Further details available from: Paul Arrowsmith Recruitment & Admissions Administrator School of Environment & Development University of Manchester Arthur Lewis Building, Rm 2.022 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Tel: 0044 161 275 0800 Fax: 0044 161 275 0421 Email: Paul.Arrowsmith[ at ]manchester.ac.uk

Fee waiver scholarship is available from April 2008 to work on 4 Months, CDU/NTG-funded, cross-disciplinary project on the design of high performance automatic diagnostic tools from a human factors perspective. The School of Engineering and Information Technology is undertaking the signal processing aspects of the project which involves measurement and processing of ECG and EEG signals and also human performance measurement and analysis during heat stress, sleep apnoea, and evoked potentials trials in both calm and adverse weather conditions. Experimental testing, simulation studies and theoretical modelling will also be undertaken. Three PhD students are working on the overall aspects of the project and the accepted research student will develop multivariable signal processing techniques to relate changes in biomedical signals to the performance of human diseases. Applicants must possess strong academic record. Skills required are the ability to work across subject boundaries, core st...

PhD in Quantitative Social Science Graduate Programme in Social Research Methods and Statistics Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR) SEVEN fully funded PhD studentships commencing September 2008 CCSR is a multi-disciplinary research centre in the School of Social Sciences, specialising in the development and application of quantitative research methods. The prestigious Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) awards are available to UK and EU citizens and pay for fees, a £750 annual research training support grant and (for UK residents) an annual stipend of up to £15,300. Applicants can apply for either a 1+3 award (four years covering linked Masters and PhDs) or a + 3 award (three years with direct entry to PhD research). Two university-funded studentships are also open to overseas students. What topic? We welcome applications in a wide range of topic areas relating to our research themes which include: * Pure and applied social statistics and research methods * Soc...

PhD student position in Computer Science - Intelligent Systems - Biologically motivated object recognition Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen Topic of research The objective of the project is to develop an object recognition technique that is motivated by the function of the visual cortex. Major aspects are representation and learning. Type and level of the position This is a temporary research position at the level of a PhD student for a period of maximum four years. The tuition fees will be waived and the student will receive a full scholarship. In this period the student will follow relevant courses and prepare and defend a PhD thesis. The position is embedded in the research group Intelligent Systems. The tradition of the group is that PhD theses are based on excellent papers in high imact journals so that our PhD graduates have a very strong competative position on the academic market. Thesis director and supervisor will be professor N. Petkov....

A fully funded PhD position is available immediately in the field of computational chemistry, more specifically in the field of atmospheric water clusters, here in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. The work is in the field of computational chemistry and deals with cluster structure and stability as well as coupling between atmospheric cluster distribution and climatic impact. The project will involve modeling energetic and spectroscopic properties of molecular clusters such as, for instance, neutral and ionic water clusters, as well as select metal/water clusters, at ambient and extreme conditions. Several different methodologies will be applied including 1) density functional theory, 2) ab initio methods and 3) time dependent density functional type calculations. All computations will be performed on HPC clusters at the University of Hong Kong. Successful applicants will join a dynamic, research-oriented department with strong collaborative links to the ...