PhD Research Fellowships in Microbial Evolutionary Biology at University of Oslo, Norway

University of Oslo offers Doctorate Research Fellowships in the Department of Biology in Norway-2011

Study Subject(s): Microbial Evolutionary Biology
College Scholarship Level: PhD
Scholarship Provider: University of Oslo
Students Scholarship Positions can be taken at: Norway

Eligibility:-The applicant should hold a Cand Scient/MSc or equivalent in biology and have considerable experiences with programming/scripting in JAVA, Python/Perl, C++ and HTML, as well as bioinformatics programming for both high performance computing and PCs.
-In addition, the position requires strong background in molecular biology, cell biology and experience with RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis and characterization of proteins.
-Furthermore, the candidate should have some experience with cell culturing, preferably growing of heterotrophic unicellular eukaryotes. The applicant must have serious research interests in microbial evolution. -In addition, because this research project is a collaboration with Spanish research groups, it is advantageous to speak Spanish

Scholarship Description: A 3-year PhD position (stipendiat, SKO 1017) in microbial evolutionary biology is available at the Department of Biology. The PhD candidate will be part of a strategic programme in Microbial Evolution (MERG) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural sciences, but will also collaborate with other research groups at the University of Oslo and University of Barcelona. Applications and inquiries are invited from qualified, motivated and enthusiastic students wishing to pursue a PhD-degree in microbial evolution, with particular emphasis on evolution of regulatory RNA molecules among single celled eukaryotes. A major goal for the research is to understand the diversity of such regulatory elements among the Choanozoa and relate these molecules to the evolutionary transition from unicellular eukaryotes to multicellular animals. The project will be done with bioinformatics and RNA sequencing approaches.

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