International Scholarships

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]

A post-doctoral position in ribosome biochemistry is available for a qualified candidate to work on the development of in-vitro translation assays with purified ribosomes. The assays to be developed will provide an analytical assessment of specific steps in mRNA translation (decoding, peptide-bond formation, translocation) in wild-type and mutant prokaryotic and eukaryotic ribosomes. The ultimate objectives … [More Info]

The Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL/ETHL/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), Switzerland will be created on July 1st, 2007 under the direction of Professor Xile Hu. The main goal of the laboratory is to develop transition metal based … [More Info]

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]

The EPFL (http://www.epfl.ch) and the Brain Mind Institute are seeking an outstanding and highly motivated PhD student for a project with focus on the regulatory mechanisms of γ-secretase, an intramembrane-cleaving protease directly implicated in Alzheimers Disease as it releases the neurotoxic amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) from its large precursor (APP). References: PNAS. 2006, 103(18):6889-6894; J Biol … [More Info]

Postdoctoral Research positions in Vascular Molecular and Cell Biology are available within the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Positions are available to investigate signaling mechanisms of vascular cell function and vascular disease. Our laboratory takes a multidisciplinary approach to investigate vascular function ranging from molecular … [More Info]

METU-MEMS Center at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey offers two postdoctoral positions in the area of BioMEMS and microfluidics, for periods of 1-2 years, in the framework of the METU-MEMS Project funded under EU 7th Framework Programme. Assignments for Position: I. To perform fabrication of glass, PDMS, and/or parylene microfluidic channels for … [More Info]