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]

2 PhD-POSITIONS in PLANT ECOLOGY and PLANT PATHOLOGY at Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany We advertise two open PhD-positions (BAT IIa/2) within the sub-projects A6 and B5 of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 607) “Growth and Parasite Defence” funded by the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft (DFG) since 1998. Ambitious candidates with a strong background/interest in modeling approaches, … [More Info]

PhD position (RUG): The objectives of project 1 are to assess the functional and structural prokaryote diversity of soil under potato (baseline) and to establish sensitive bacterial and archaeal bioindicators on the basis of molecular tools. Prokarya interacting with local fungi will also be studied. The effects of the presence of transgenes in potato will … [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]

UCD`s Food & Health Academic Cluster, is strategically aligned with National and International research and policy prioroties, through a comprehensive and inclusive program. Its expanding research programme, is focused on the food chain, extending from plants and animals through public health. Research is undertaken using a multidisciplinary approach, with integrated teams in subject areas including: … [More Info]

Postdoctoral and PhD Student Positions in Neurochoice, the University of Zurich, Switzerland SystemsX.ch, the Swiss initiative in systems biology, has initiated a new project entitled “Neurochoice: Neural Correlates of Collective Decision Making”, with principal investigators located at the Universi-ties of Zurich, Bern, and Geneva, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. One part … [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]