PhD Student Position in Computational Systems Biology in Netherlands

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Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam offers PhD Student Position. The position is offered in the field of Computational Systems Biology. The student applying for the position should have a Master’s degree (or equivalent) and appreciation of biological or medical experimentation and experience in dynamic modeling. The position is based on a full-time appointment (38 hours per week) the gross monthly salary will range from €2062,- in the first year to €2664,- in the last year.

Study Subject(s): Position is offered in Computational Systems Biology.
Course Level: This position is available for pursuing PhD programme at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Scholarship Provider: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Scholarship can be taken at: Netherlands

Eligibility: The PhD student is an enthusiastic scientist with a Master’s degree (or equivalent) and appreciation of biological or medical experimentation and experience in dynamic modeling. The candidate has the desire to contribute to the success of a team and the ambition to move systems biology.

Scholarship Open for International Students: The students of Netherlands can apply for the position.

Scholarship Description: Systems Biology discovers the principles underlying the emergence of the functions of Life from molecular interactions. Matteo Barberis and Hans Westerhoff have engaged in such discoveries in areas such as metabolism, the cell cycle, gene expression, sleeping sickness, and signal transduction. This project aims to develop cases where highly different biological dimensions are brought together computationally. One model will connect metabolic, cell cycle and epigenetic networks to whole-body aspects and to nutrition in the context of personalized medicine. A second model will connect temperature stress in an extremely thermophilic Archeon with metabolic black holes and toxicity. A third will connect transcription to protein synthesis to metabolism in the context of rare metabolic diseases. The project is a generalization of the challenge of multi-scale modeling so as to add temporal, organizational, chemical and functional dimensions to the spatial scales.This project will be supervised by Dr. Matteo Barberis and Prof. Hans Westerhoff at the Amsterdam Faculty of Science-location of SILS.

Number of award(s): Not Known

Duration of award(s): The appointment will be on a temporary basis for a period of 4 years (initial appointment will be for a period of 18 year and after satisfactory evaluation it can be extended for a total duration of 4 years) and should lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis).

What does it cover? Based on a full-time appointment (38 hours per week) the gross monthly salary will range from €2062,- in the first year to €2664,- in the last year.

How to Apply: Applications are to be submitted electronically. Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a cover letter and the names and contact details of two academic referees. All these should be grouped in one PDF attachment.

Scholarship Application Deadline: The last date to submit the form is March 29, 2013.

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PhD Student Position in Computational Systems Biology in Netherlands