International Scholarships

International Ph.D. Programs Life Sciences The Life Science Zurich Graduate School consists of nine highly competitive Ph.D. programs, run jointly by the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. Each program offers research and education opportunities in a stimulating international environment for ambitious students who wish to work towards a Ph.D. degree. Accepted students perform … [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]

Universität Zürich, Geographisches Institut, Abt. GIVA Representation of geographic relevance in mobile applications The Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis group at the University of Zurich invites applications for a doctoral research assistant position in Geographic Information Science/Geovisualization to work on a 3-year project. The highly motivated, successful applicant will be asked to develop methods for … [More Info]

Mobile DNA is DNA that can change its position within a genome. It is an integral component of most bacterial genomes, and also implicated in the spreading of drug resistance genes among pathogenic bacteria. Why does mobile DNA persist in genomes? On one hand, mobile DNA may be a very effective parasite, replicating itself at … [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 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]

Full-Time PhD Studentship School of Applied Social Sciences Faculty of Health & Life Sciences Applications are invited for a fully funded three-year PhD studentship starting in October 2008. The studentship includes a bursary of £12,600 per annum (tax-free) for three years and all tuition fees. Candidates should hold a good first degree (at least an … [More Info]