Postdoctoral position in Tissue Engineering

Highlights:

1. Postdoctoral research fellowship and postdoctoral scientist positions are available immediately in the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at Columbia University.

2. The laboratory has a primary focus on translational models of tissue regeneration using adult or reprogrammed stem cells and novel biomaterials and/or bioactive cues. These positions are funded by multiple grants of varying lengths from the National Institutes of Health.

3. Please submit curriculum vitae, bibliography, cover letter and two letters of recommendation with your online application.

4. Qualified applicants must have a doctorate degree (PhD; MD; DDS; DVM), preferably in the areas of cell biology, genetics, molecular biology, drug release, biomaterials, chemical engineering, or bioengineering. Verbal and written communication skills as well as the ability to interact with fellow scientists in multidisciplinary areas required.

5. Minimum qualification: Doctorate

Reference: https://academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1255108893525

Postdoctoral positions and PhD-stipends at the Center for Evolution Climate and Macroecology

Highlights:

1. The center has been established with funds from Danish National Research Foundation (Danmarks Grundforskningsfond), the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark.

2. It is a long-term funded center of excellence that starts 1st of January 2010. It will integrate terrestrial and marine research in a cross-disciplinary research program addressing fundamental questions on the origin, maintenance, conservation and future of life and biological diversity on Earth.

3. The center will bring together ca. 40 marine and terrestrial high-profile scientists, postdoctoral scientists, PhD-students as well as technical and administrative staff. The center will juxtapose faculty staff scientists from the fields of macroecology, historical biogeography, oceanography, evolutionary biology, ecology, population biology, climate change research, conservation biology and environmental economics, who have been assigned to the center from the Department of Biology, the Natural History Museum of Denmark, and Forest & Landscape (all University of Copenhagen) and the National Institute of Aquatic Resources (Technical University of Denmark).

Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics

Highlights:

1. The Bo Porse group, BRIC and the Gene regulation and transcriptomics group, Department of Biology both at University of Copenhagen are jointly recruiting one highly qualified postdoc to work on bioinformatics in the project “Towards individualized patient care: Improving cancer diagnosis and Therapy”.

2. The project aims at characterizing cancer and normal cells at different developmental stages at a single cell resolution in order to obtain a better understanding of causal effects in different subpopulations using acute myeloid leukemias as a model system.

3. The computational analysis includes characterization/classification of transcriptional profiles of both normal and cancer populations, identification of activated oncogenic pathways including deregulation of miRNAs and gene enrichment analysis for in silico drug screening.

4. There will be a close collaboration between experimentalists and bioinformaticians in the project.

5. A successful candidate will have a PhD degree in bioinformatics or related fields. The candidate needs to be able to program in C, Java, Perl or Python, and be comfortable with Linux systems. Fluency in spoken and written English is a strong requirement. The postdoc will be hired by the Department of Biology.

6. We value experience in: systems biology, mathematical modeling, machine learning, experimental biology – especially related to expression profiling, applied statistics and R, computer science and SQL.

7. Terms of appointment and payment accord to the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations on Academics in the State (www.perst.dk/~/media/Circular/2008/061-08-pdf.ashx).

8. While negotiation for salary supplement is possible, the salary is between DKK 370.587 and 390,181 including annual supplement (+ pension DKK 63.370/66,720). More information about the two groups can be found at http://www.bric.ku.dk/research/Porse_Group and http://www.binf.ku.dk.

9. Further information about the position can be obtained from Ole Winther (winther@binf.ku.dk). The position is funded by a grant from Danish Council for Strategic Research (DSF). Preferred start date is January 2010.

10. Applications must be in English, emailed as a single PDF file to job@bio.ku.dk (Subject line: your name). The application should include a cover letter, a CV with the names and contact details of 3 references, and copies of relevant official exam documents. Closing date for applications is the October 30th, 2009 at 12:00 noon.

11. The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the diversity of society and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Reference: http://www1.bio.ku.dk/om/jobs/postdoc_bioinformatics/

Nobel Peace Prize 2009: U.S. President Barack Obama won!!!!!

Highlights:

1. U.S. President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

2. The stunning choice made Mr. Obama the third sitting U.S. President to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Mr. Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Mr. Obama’s name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.

3. Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said. “His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.

4. The committee said it attached special importance to Obama’s vision of, and work for, a world without nuclear weapons.

5. Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play,” the committee said.

6. Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in 1919. Former President Jimmy Carter won the award in 2002, while former Vice President Al Gore shared the 2007 prize with the U.N. panel on climate change.

7. The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this year’s prize.

8. In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses.

9. Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, he said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Sweden and Norway were united under the same crown at the time of Nobel’s death.

10. The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel’s guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change.

Reference: http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article31229.ece