PhD Scholarships Information

Research Fellow,Nematode Neurobiology, UK

Job Description: Queen’s University’s purpose is two-fold: to produce research which is genuinely international in its quality and reach; and to deliver a first-class educational experience which deepens the knowledge of its students and delivers a broader experience which gives them the skills they will need in the wider world. The University is successful at both, as demonstrated through external reviews of its performance.

In December 2008, the results of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), which measures research performance across all UK universities, were announced. The outcome for Queen’s reinforced its position as a leading research-intensive university. The RAE identified areas of world-class research across all academic disciplines: Queen’s had 11 subject areas ranked in the top 10 in the United Kingdom and 24 in the top 20. Northern Ireland has, in Queen’s, a world-class university leading the way in areas central to our future, including engineering, medicine, the humanities and the professions.
Available for 4 years in the first instance, the successful candidate will be required to spend up to 6 months at each of the collaborating institutes (Iowa State University (USA) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).
Anticipated interview date: Monday 13 September 2010.

Salary scale: £29,853 – £38,951 per annum (including contribution points).

Closing date: 4.00pm, Friday 20 August 2010.

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PhD Studentship,Novel Scents and Drugs through an Expansion of the Terpenome,Cardiff University,UK

Job Description: The recent resurgence of natural products chemistry has been driven by the need for new compounds with useful applications and by new basic work that has led to an understanding of how the chemical diversity observed in bioproducts such as polyketides is generated. Only recently have the details begun to emerge of how the remarkable diversity in the terpenome is created by Nature. One of the key steps is the conversion of the linear precursors of all terpenes into (mostly) cyclic hydrocarbon products by the family of closely related terpene synthases. Recent work has revealed many of the intricate mechanistic details of sesquiterpene synthase chemistry, and has indicated that a simple combinatorial code exists within a shared protein fold that determines the catalytic outcome of terpene synthase catalysed reactions. Hence terpene synthase chemistry is a classic example of combinatorial chemistry. While biosynthetic constraints limit the substrate pool of terpene synthases in nature to only a small number of isoprenyl diphosphates, it has become apparent that it is possible to expand the vast pool of naturally occurring terpenoids (the terpenome) through the enzymatic conversion of non-natural substrate analogues. This provides an approach for the generation of terpenoids and terpenoid analogues, molecules that have historically been difficult to obtain synthetically because of their highly complex molecular architectures.
We are seeking a bright and highly motivated student to join a dynamic, multidisciplinary research group in Chemical Biology to work on a project that combines synthetic organic chemistry, chemical biology and mechanistic enzymology to elucidate the enzymatic reaction mechanisms of terpene biosynthesis and to generate novel “non-natural” natural products with biological and medicinal activities.
Application Deadline 31August 2010

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PhD Scholarship, Birkbeck College, In Organizational Psychology

Job Description: Applications are invited for a full-time PhD studentship in the Department of Organizational Psychology starting in October 2010. The studentship will cover fees at Home/EU rate, plus an annual stipend of approximately £13,850.

Who is eligible?
We welcome applications from strong candidates with research interests in any field of organizational psychology and a desire to pursue an academic career.

The studentship is open to EU and UK candidates with a 2:1 or 1st class undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in any discipline and, preferably, a master’s degree in a relevant subject area.

Information about research interests of our academic staff can be found on the staff web pages.
How to apply

Please complete the studentship application form Word icon and return to Cari Caldwell by 31 August 2010.

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PhD Scholarship, In Computer Science

Job Description: The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems is offering a PhD research studentship for the academic year 2010/11. This will provide funding for up to three years covering tuition fees (at the UK/EU rate) and an annual stipend of approximately £13,850.
The Department, based in Bloomsbury in the heart of London, is a world-class centre of expertise in information and knowledge management, intelligent systems and computational intelligence. We also have major interdisciplinary activities in bioinformatics and technology-enhanced learning. Our research collaborations include many industrial partners and other academic institutions in the UK and abroad.
The two main research groups in the School are
• Computational Intelligence
• Information Management and Web Technologies
with two main interdisciplinary activities:
• London Knowledge Lab
• Life Sciences Informatics
Applications will be considered in all areas of Computer Science research. However, priority will be given to research falling within the following areas: Adaptive Systems, Bio-inspired Computing, Computer Vision and Image Processing, Data Management, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Information Systems, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (and Logic in Computer Science), Pervasive Computing, Social Computing and Networks, Semantic Web, and Web Technologies.
To apply, please complete an MPhil/PhD application form, including a CV and statement of proposed research area, as detailed at http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/research/degrees-apply.html. Please quote: PhD studentship 1007. In addition, please complete the studentship application form and email it to Dr Peter Wood ( ptw@dcs.bbk.ac.uk ), to whom informal enquiries may also be made. The closing date for applications is 31 August 2010.

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