International Scholarships

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on the identification, cloning and heterologous expression of the genes encoding the enzymes catalysing the four steps of the important pathway of plant sterol dealkylation to cholesterol in insects. The project will involve a range of post-genomic technologies, including bioinformatics and proteomics. Most species of invertebrate … [More Info]

PhD Fellowship in Chemical Ecology and Nematology at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) This PhD project is hosted by the Chemical Ecology Group and the Nematology Group (www.ice3.se) Chemical communication in the rhizosphere is a current frontier in biology. Volatiles released aboveground from green plants are known to mediate interactions with other plants, microorganisms … [More Info]

Requirements: Highly qualified applicants from all over the world are invited to apply, provided that they are not older than 30 years. All applicants must hold or anticipate receiving a university degree within the first half of 2009. This university degree should qualify for the start of a doctorate thesis in their home country and … [More Info]

MERIT / ERASMUS-MUNDUS 2008/2009 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP CALL This is the call for applications to the Erasmus-Mundus student scholarships for MERIT – the European Master of Research on Information and Communication Technologies (see http://www.meritmaster.org ). MERIT is a European 2-year post-graduate programme taught in English at the following institutions: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain … [More Info]

IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program 2008 Summer Fellowship in Austria for Graduate Students in Natural and Social Sciences, Math, Policy and Engineering. Each summer, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located in Schloss Laxenburg near Vienna, Austria, hosts a selected group of graduate students, primarily doctoral, from around the world in its Young … [More Info]

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY (IAS-STS) Fellowship Programme 2008-2009 The IAS-STS in Graz, Austria, promotes the interdisciplinary investigation of the links and interactions between science, technology and society as well as technology assessment and research into the development and implementation of socially and environmentally sound technologies. The IAS-STS invites researchers to … [More Info]

There are 3 PhD positions open at the JM Rendel laboratories, Rockhampton in the Division of Livestock Industries, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia. These 3 PhD positions relate to scientific research projects in the area of Quantitative genetics/genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology and are funded by the Office of the Chief Executive … [More Info]