The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is one of Australia’s leading medical research institutes, with over 600 scientists, students and support staff. We pioneer study into the most widespread diseases affecting our community today, including cancer, neurodegenerative and mental diseases, disorders of the immune system, diabetes and obesity, osteoporosis and other skeletal disorders.The Ovarian Cancer Research Laboratory at the Garvan Institute has a particular interest in the application of genomic technologies to address clinically significant issues such as primary and acquired chemoresistance. The lab spans the Garvan Institute and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Melbourne) through Professor David Bowtell’s joint appointment at these two leading institutions.
Research Associate under Network Project on Agricultural Bioinformatics
ICAR -Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar (Haryana) will conduct walk-in-interview for contractual positions of Research Associate (One) and Senior Research Fellow (Two) as per detail mentioned below.
Name of the project | Network Project on Agricultural Bioinformatics |
Number of positions | One |
Qualifications | Ph.D Degree in Bioinformatics/Biotechnology/ Biochemistry/ Genetics & Breeding/Life Sciences OR Master’s Degree in relevant subject with at least 2 years research experience. Desirable: Working experience in Molecular Biology/ Genomics/Bioinformatics, specifically, sequence data analysis using software’s proficiently. |
Emoluments | Master’s Degree Holders Rs. 38,000/- per month Doctoral Degree Holders Rs. 40,000/- per month |
Date and time of reporting for Interview | 11.08.2015 at 11.00 AM. at ICAR-CIRB, Hisar (Haryana) |
Senior Research Fellow (SRF) under AICRP on Nutritional and Physiological Interventions for Enhancing Reproductive Performance in Animals”
Name of the project | “AICRP on Nutritional and Physiological Interventions for Enhancing Reproductive Performance in Animals” |
Qualifications | Master’s Degree in Animal Reproduction, Animal Nutrition, Animal Physiology or Life Sciences. Desirable: Ph.D in relevant field/experience of working in a research project |
Emoluments | Rs.25000/- per month for 1st and 2nd year and Rs. 28000/- per month for 3rd year. |
Date and time of reporting for Interview | 11.08.2015 at 11.00 AM. at ICAR-CIRB, Hisar (Haryana) |
Senior Research Fellow (SRF) under National Agricultural Scientific Fund (NASF) project on “Lactation stress associated postpartum anestrus SNP array in buffaloes”
Name of the project | National Agricultural Scientific Fund (NASF) project on “Lactation stress associated postpartum anestrus SNP array in buffaloes” |
Qualifications | Master’s Degree in Vety. Reproduction, Animal Physiology, Animal Biotechnology or Life Sciences. Desirable: Ph.D in relevant field/experience of working in related field. |
Emoluments | Rs.25000/- per month for 1st and 2nd year and Rs. 28000/- per month for 3rd year |
Date and time of reporting for Interview | 11.08.2015 at 11.00 AM. at ICAR-CIRB, Hisar (Haryana) |
Applications on plain paper giving complete permanent and correspondence address including telephone no. and email address (if available), details of educational qualifications (starting from High School or equivalent) and/or experience if any along with attested copies of all mark sheets/ certificates are invited for the post of Project Fellow in the ongoing SERB-DST sponsored research project under the Young Scientist scheme entitled “Genome-wide screening of Outer Membrane Proteins in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis(MAP) K-10: a repertoire of candidate immunogens for translational medicine”(Project No. SB/YS/LS-125/2014)on the following terms and conditions:
Applications are invited in the prescribed Proforma for filling up of position of Project Fellow on a purely temporary basis. The detail of the Sponsored Project under which engagement is proposed to be made is as under:
Dr. Narendra Kadoo), CSIRNational Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, & submitted so as to reach the office on or before 11/08/2015
The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is a premier national autonomous Institute of the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India, in the field of teaching, training and research. The WII wishes to engage 11 research personnel viz., 02–Project Biologists, 01–Research Associate, 01–Senior Research Fellow, 01–Project Assistant, 01–Project Fellow and 05–Junior Research Fellows (Indian national only) through a walk-in-interview on Monday, 24th August 2015. The details of the available positions along with essential and desirable qualifications, terms and conditions and how to apply are given below:
The speed of implementation for genetic engineering is faster than ever. As a result, implications are larger and the stakes are higher.BIOGRAPHY OF Raymond McCauley:
Raymond McCauley is a scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur working at the forefront of biotechnology. Raymond explores how applying technology to life — biology, genetics, medicine, agriculture — is affecting every one of us.. He is known for using storytelling and down-to-earth examples to show how quickly these changes are happening, right now.Read More
In a triumph for cell biology, researchers have assembled the first high-resolution, 3-D maps of entire folded genomes and found a structural basis for gene regulation, a kind of “genomic origami” that allows the same genome to produce different types of cells. The research appears online Thursday in the journal Cell.
“More and more, we’re realizing that folding is regulation,” said study co-first author Suhas Rao, a researcher at Baylor’s Center for Genome Architecture and a 2012 graduate of Harvard College. “When you see genes turn on or off, what lies behind that is a change in folding. It’s a different way of thinking about how cells work.”
The calcite-encrusted skeleton of an ancient human, still embedded in rock deep inside a cave in Italy, has yielded the oldest Neanderthal DNA ever found.These molecules, which could be up to 170,000 years old, could one day help yield the most complete picture yet of help paint a more complete picture of Neanderthal life, researchers say.
"The Altamura man represents the most complete skeleton of a single nonmodern human ever found," study co-author Fabio Di Vincenzo, a paleoanthropologist at Sapienza University of Rome, told Live Science. "Almost all the bony elements are preserved and undamaged."
The notion that police can identify a suspect based on the tiniest drop of blood or trace of tissue has long been a staple of TV dramas, but scientists at Harvard have taken the idea a step further. Using just a single human cell, they can reproduce an individual’s entire genome.
“If you give us a single human cell, we report to you 93 percent of the genome that contains three billion base pairs, and if there is a single base mutation, we can identify it with 70 percent detectability, with no false positives detected,” Xie said. “This is a major development.”
Cancer researchers must use one of the world's fastest computers to detect which versions of genes are only found in cancer cells. Every form of cancer, even every tumour, has its own distinct variants.
"This charting may help tailor the treatment to each patient," says Associate Professor Rolf Skotheim, who is affiliated with the Centre for Cancer Biomedicine and the Research Group for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Oslo in Norway, as well as the Department of Molecular Oncology at Radiumhospitalet, Oslo University Hospital.
One of the deadliest forms of paediatric brain tumour, Group 3 medulloblastoma, is linked to a variety of large-scale DNA rearrangements which all have the same overall effect on specific genes located on different chromosomes. The finding, by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), both in Heidelberg, Germany, and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in San Diego, USA, is published online today in Nature.
"We were surprised to see that in addition to MYC there are two other major drivers of Group 3 medulloblastoma – two sister genes called GFI1B and GFI1," says Korbel. "Our findings could be relevant for research on other cancers, as we discovered that those genes had been activated in a way that cancer researchers don't usually look for in solid tumours."
François Rechenmann is a researcher in bioinformatics. He was research director at INRIA for over 30 years and has worked in the team Ibis whose research projects focus on digital biology. It now focuses its activities CEO of bioinformatics company Genostar .François Rechenmann, 56, graduated in computer science from ENSIMAG/INPG in 1973. He got his PhD thesis from INPG in 1976, with the support of a CNRS grant. From 1976 to 1977, he worked as a scientist in the european Joint Research Center at Ispra in Italy (JRC-EURATOM).Since 1978, he is a researcher (senior researcher, "directeur de recherche", since 1983) of the french national research institute in computer science (INRIA).He has contributed to the MODULECO projet (development of methods and software for large econometric models) and the EDORA project (dynamical systems in ecology), before creating the SHERPA research group on object-oriented knowledge modeling, in Grenoble in 1988. Read More
There has been a huge effort in the advancement of analytical techniques for molecular biological data over the past decade. This has led to many novel algorithms that are specialized to deal with data associated with biological phenomena, such as gene expression and protein interactions. In contrast, ecological data analysis has remained focused to some degree on off-the-shelf statistical techniques though this is starting to change with the adoption of state-of-the-art methods, where few assumptions can be made about the data and a more explorative approach is required, for example, through the use of Bayesian networks. In this paper, some novel bioinformatics tools for microarray data are discussed along with their ‘crossover potential’ with an application to fisheries data. In particular, a focus is made on the development of models that identify functionally equivalent species in different fish communities with the aim of predicting functional collapse.
At the Department of Clinical Science, Section of Oncology University of Bergen a 4-year temporary position as PhD-student are open within the field of cancer genetics / genomics. The candidate will be appointed for a period of four (4) years or max 4 months after completed the PhD-degree, if this is achieved within a shorter time than four years. The position include 25 % duty work such as teaching, exam work or supervision, depending on the demands at the department.The position is associated with a research group at Section of Oncology and at the Mohn Cancer Research Laboratory, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway (www.haukeland.no/mohnlab). Both positions are funded by the University of Bergen.
The project may also potentially include in vitro functional characterization of identified mutations.Additional information about the position will be available through contacting Senior Scientist Stian Knappskog e-mail [email protected] , phone: (+47) 559764447.
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The Human Genome Project was an international research effort to determine the sequence of the human genome and identify the genes that it contains. The Project was coordinated by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Energy. Additional contributors included universities across the United States and international partners in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and China. The Human Genome Project formally began in 1990 and was completed in 2003, 2 years ahead of its original schedule.
The selected candidate will become a member of the newly formed System Biology group in the Department of Enviromental Toxicology, and will be enrolled in the ETHZ/UniZ systems biology graduate program. The goal of the PhD project will be to use genome-scale metabolic modelling and gene expression measurements in green algae to 1) determine the metabolic mechanisms of toxicity after exposure to different chemicals and 2) to predict the adverse outcome after exposure to single chemicals and chemical mixtures. The project will include development of metabolic models and their integration with omics datasets, with option of including laboratory work.
The crowdfunding campaign is to raise money to build an app to give Sri Lankan farmers and any other palm tree farmer piece of mind from red palm weevils. Weevils breed inside the tree, eating it from the inside. The tree shows no external signs until it is too late, yet Thrish has discovered a way of detecting the weevils using the a combination of the processing power of the brain and a smart phone. Thrish's research helped us understand the behaviour of weevils and now with the device we can detect them.
The call for applications for the 2015 EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdocs Fellowship (EIPOD) is now open until September 10th. The fellowships are funded by EMBL and a grant from Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions from the EU and provide young scientist with full funding for a three year position. Applicants are invited to propose an interdisciplinary project according to their scientific interest. Each project should involve two EMBL groups. External partners from academia or industry are welcome.
Successful candidates will pursue interdisciplinary projects, transferring techniques to a new context or connecting scientific fields that are usually separate, across at least two labs at the five EMBL sites.
Sitting humbly in his silence, gathering dozens of pages of data, New Mexico State University student Cesar Montelongo is tucked away in a biology lab eager to make his mark on society. Montelongo is a biology master’s graduate with a unique past, inspiring story and bright future.
Bioinformatics is the process in which scientists and doctors manage biological information. It is the area where Montelongo believes he can make a difference in patients’ lives.
“I have a hope that bioinformatics will make a difference in how patients are treated, and overall how the medical field works,” he said. “My father became very sick in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and for the longest time we had no idea what was wrong with him. With my father incapacitated and all the violence throughout the city, that made a huge impression on me. It was in that moment I decided I wanted to become the kind of person who could prevent that.”
UT Southwestern Medical Center announced today that it has received an exceptional $25 million gift from Lyda Hill, funding the establishment of the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics to bridge research and clinical care.
The new Department, recently approved by the UT System Board of Regents, is dedicated to developing UT Southwestern’s capability in bioinformatics, a discipline that provides tools for managing and analyzing the extremely large data sets that are increasingly key to addressing the most important scientific and medical challenges. Finding the patterns in these data sets has become an essential component of biomedical discovery and is crucial to developing new therapeutic strategies and to understanding the foundations of life and the defects that cause disease.
Miss Hill added, “Over the long term, I believe bioinformatics will prove indispensable in bridging the outstanding research activity at UT Southwestern with the most promising clinical applications. My hope is that our investment will help overcome the technological barriers in managing and analyzing data, enabling patients to benefit from research breakthroughs.”
The Vienna Biocenter (VBC) PhD Programme in Life Sciences has been running since 1993, providing students from all over the world with excellent training. As a student at the Vienna Biocenter you will be supervised by a top scientist and have full access to state-of-the-art facilities, thus giving you the opportunity to start a strong scientific career.The VBC campus is highly multidisciplinary with research areas ranging from molecules to populations: RNA biology, gene regulation and epigenetics; Biochemistry, structural and cell biology; Stem cells and developmental biology; Molecular medicine; Neurosciences; Plant biology; Bioengineering and computational biology; and Evolutionary and population biology.
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The VBC PhD Programme (www.vbcphd.at) is organized jointly by the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP – http://www.imp.ac.at), the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL – http://www.mfpl.ac.at), the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA – http://www.imba.oeaw.ac.at) and the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI – www.gmi.oeaw.ac.at). Degrees are awarded by the Vienna University or the Medical University of Vienna.