The Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) is a new interdisciplinary institute with the mission to carry out internationally outstanding research on the interactions of biodiversity and climate change on the organism level. It has been founded by the Senckenberg Gesellschaft fuer Naturforschung, the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, and others partners. The Centre is funded [...]

Département de sciences biologiques
Faculté des arts et des sciences
The Department of Biology invites applications for a tenure-track position for an Assistant Professor specializing in Ecological Modeling.
Responsibilities
Teach undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses, supervise graduate students, conduct independent research, produce publications, and contribute to the life and administration of the University. Upon arrival, the priority will be [...]

As a collaborating group of academic and government scientists, we are seeking 5 Ph. D. students to work as a part of a multidisciplinary team conducting manipulative experiments designed to examine the effects of multiple stressors in small wetland ecosystems. The focus of this NSERC funded research program will be on the potential effects of [...]

Grade 7: Salary £28,983 – £35,646 p.a.
Applications are invited for a Statistical Bioinformatician/Geneticist in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM). The institute is located on the John Radcliffe Hospital site in Headington, and is part of the University of Oxford. This is a unique position jointly funded by a five-year Wellcome Trust Programme and [...]

Position announcement: Climate Change Ecologist
Job Description: The Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center in Davie, Florida is seeking an enthusiastic individual to work as part of a multi-agency team modeling potential effects of climate change on biodiversity.
Duties Include: This individual will help develop species [...]

University of Bristol – Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Excellent postgraduate research degree (PhD) opportunities
MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Research (CAiTE)
Two studentships will be available to outstanding and highly motivated science graduates (minimum 2.i, EU only), to commence October 2010.
4 year PhD studentships with a specific focus on causal analyses [...]

We have a 4-year PhD studentship funded by Cancer Research UK available to start in October 2010 which is to be awarded competitively to the best student applying to the Cancer Research UK Centre in Leeds. The studentship is open to UK/EU students and will provide a stipend and full fees. Interested applicants should have, [...]

Salary: £23,566-£26,523 pa or £27,319-£35,646 pa
The funds for this post are available until the 30th April 2013 in the first instance.
A Data Manager is required to work on a project involving the management of data from large-scale association studies in breast cancer, funded by Cancer Research UK. Data from over 40 studies worldwide, involving over [...]

The Developmental Therapeutics Program’s primary emphasis is on drug discovery and characterization, identification of new therapeutic molecular targets and participation in the evaluation of samples and results from animal models with a goal of identifying drugs with potential therapeutic value. You will use statistical analysis, data mining approaches, and gene/protein functional annotation tools and programs [...]

Networks of a very small number of McCormick neurons, synapses and astrocytes would be simulated taking into account as much detail as possible. Three compartment neuron model (dendritic tree, soma, axon) will be followed. Attempt will be made to incorporate directional aspects of dendritic computation. Information will be assumed to flow through bursts rather than [...]