6 PhD & 2 Postdoctoral Positions, IfADo Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Germany (2016)

About five million individuals are affected by liver diseases in Germany, and the causes of these diseases often remain unknown. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has recently funded a research network entitled ‘Systems Medicine of the Liver’ aimed at better understanding the etiology and progression of liver disease. Within this project, the PhD positions described below are available at the IFADO (Leibniz Research Centre) in Dortmund, Germany: http://www.ifado.de/toxikologie/. The successful candidates will work within an interdisciplinary network of molecular biologists, bioinformaticians, systems biologists and physicians. We are looking for highly motivated PhD candidates who are aiming for as successful career in science. The PhD students will be integrated into an international and successful research network.

Our institute offers excellent research conditions, including well-equipped cell and molecular biology labs, confocal and two-photon based microscopy, flow cytometry facility, genome wide analyses, and a mouse facility with different reporter strains of liver cell types. Please send your applications to the project leaders, whose e-mail address is given after the descriptions of the individual PhD projects. Positions 1-3 are specifically for experimentalists with a background in cell or molecular biology, biochemistry, pharmacy or related fields. Positions 4-6 require a background in the theoretical sciences, such as computer science, bioinformatics, physics, engineering or related fields who will work closely together with a team of cell and molecular biologists and imaging experts at IFADO.

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