PhD Student Fellowships - Friedrich Miescher Institute

International PhD Programme 2007

Applications are invited for internally funded PhD student fellowships at the FMI in Basel, Switzerland. The FMI is part of the Novartis Research Foundation. Our research focuses on epigenetics, growth control and neurobiology. We employ state-of-the-art technologies to explore basic molecular mechanisms of cells and organisms in health and disease

Research group leaders:

Joy Alcedo / Silvia Arber Mohamed Bentires-Alj / Pico Caroni Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann / Rafal Ciosk Witold Filipowicz/ Rainer Friedrich Susan Gasser / Helge Grosshans Brian Hemmings / Jan Hofsteenge Nancy Hynes / Andreas Lüthi Patrick Matthias/Andrew Matus Frederick Meins / Denis Monard Yoshikuni Nagamine/Thomas Oertner Antoine Peters / Botond Roska Dirk Schübeler / Nicolas Thomä


Topics include:

Biology of aging/ Cancer and metastasis / Cell adhesion / Protein structure / Proteomics and genomics / Molecular mechanisms of cell signaling/Cell type specification and differentiation / Connectivity and function of neuronal circuits/Vision, olfaction, motor control / Synaptic plasticity / Learning and memory / Epigenetic regulation and chromatin modification / Gene expression and silencing/Genomic integrity/ MicroRNAs and posttranscriptional regulation

Our international PhD programme has 100 graduate students from more than 25 countries. The working language is English. Most students are registered at the University of Basel.

For application forms and further information, contact:

Application deadline: 21 May 2007

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research,
Maulbeerstrasse 66,
4058 Basel,
Switzerland

http://www.fmi.ch