Fifteen (15) PhD Positions, CerealPath ITN, Ireland (2016)

Three-year, fully-funded doctoral studentships in crop disease research – Marie Słodowksa-Curie Action Project: ‘CerealPath’

CerealPath: a doctoral programme delivering integrated, innovative, structured training in cereal disease control

Are you interested in working as part of an integrated team of international researchers, to solve some of the greatest challenges facing world food security?

There is a massive and urgent effort needed to ensure security of food supply for the growing world population. The challenge is to double crop yields by 2050. Cereals are the most important source of human calories but we lose billions of euro worth of grain annually due to diseases that reduce yield.

CerealPath is a multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral training programme built using the complimentary expertise from 22 participants from 8 European countries, including 7 universities, 3 research institutes, 11 industry partners and one regulatory agency.

CerealPath is looking to recruit 15 exceptional Early Stage Researchers to undertake doctoral (PhD) level studies, through which they will be exposed to research and innovation in both industry and academia. The training equips researchers with the skills and opportunities to develop innovative methods contributing to integrated disease control programmes, thus matching their potential to the jobs of the future and helping Europe and the world meet the critical need of global food security.

All positions are fully funded for 36 months and will begin in January 2016.

The 15 positions are grouped into a number of thematic areas:
Gene discovery and breeding
Biological and bioactive disease control
Trade-off and pathogen evolution

Further details:
http://www.nature.com