International Scholarships

The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for the “Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques” in Jena, Germany, offers 15 PhD positions in molecular biology, ecology, entomology, microbiology, (bio)-chemistry, neuroethology or bioinformatics beginning in January 2009. The Research School is the first graduate school worldwide where modern chemical and molecular techniques are … [More Info]

The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (www.helmholtz-hzi.de) seeks: a PhD Student for the Department of Cell Biology Code No. 25/2007 Bioinformatics and experimental investigation of a Roseobacter bacterium (finisching and manual annotation of the genome sequence, cultivation in a chemostat, transcriptome and proteome analysis. The Ph.d. project is integrated into a joint research consortium in … [More Info]

The Bioinformatics Group in the Institute for Functional Genomics at the University of Regensburg invites applications for a: PhD Student Position (BAT II a/2) in Bioinformatics The focus of research will be the investigation of novel methods for reconstructing signalling networks and the diagnosis of disrupted signalling pathways in tumors using microarray data. A suitable … [More Info]

Studentships available in the Life Sciences Graduate Program of the International University Bremen, “Biological Recognition” (BioRec). The graduate school “Biological Recognition” (BioRec) at the International University Bremen (IUB) has studentships available to begin in September, 2007. Application deadlines are February 1st and May 1st, 2007. IUB (http://www.iu-bremen.de) is a private research and teaching university in … [More Info]

The research group “Biomedical Computer Vision” (BMCV) at the University of Heidelberg, IPMB, Dept. Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics, and the DKFZ Heidelberg, Dept. Theoretical Bioinformatics is developing algorithms and methods for computer-based analysis of biological and medical images, in particular, cell microscopy images. The main aim is to derive quantitative information about the shape, motion, … [More Info]

International Max Planck Research School “Ecological Interactions” Project 7: How do wood-feeding insects digest their diet? Supervisors: Prof. Jonathan Gershenzon, Dr. Axel Schmidt, Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth, MPI-CE Wood-feeding insects are sometimes known to use microbial symbionts present in their guts to help in digestion and nutrient mobilization. However, nothing is known about how such insects … [More Info]

The Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) is funded by the German Excellence Initiative. It conceptionally combines different research areas (microbial communities, interactions with plant, animal and human hosts and environmental interactions) to a comprehensive picture of microbial communication (www.jsmc.uni-jena.de). JSMC is an ambitious Graduate School prospectively comprising 150 PhD students who will be educated … [More Info]