Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans
This service provides information on Scholarships, Grants, Fellowships opportunities at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels including Research Institutions for Nigerians and Africans
These Scholarships are funded by the Accounting and Finance Division and meet course fees up to the home/EU rate. This means that the successful candidates will pay no course fees in September 2011 if they are home/EU fee category students. Overseas fee paying students are also encouraged to apply and would pay the difference between home and overseas fees
Scholarship Application Deadline: 30 June 2011
A major impediment in selecting resistant crop lines is that large numbers of crop lines need to be screened for the effects they have on pest insects. Moreover, the mechanisms of resistance to one pest are not necessarily also effective to another pest so that different pest species require their own approach. The goal of this research programme is to develop an automated methodology to screen large numbers of crop lines for resistance to two major pest species in Dutch greenhouse crops, aphids and thrips, and identify the responsible genetic loci by a genetical genomics approach. The method will be developed for Arabidopsis by taking advantage of the HapMap collection of ca 400 Arabidopsis accessions that have been collected globally and genotyped for 250.000 SNPs. Tools will be developed to objectively quantify differences in insect resistance in a rapid and reliable way, and subsequently genes and molecular markers will be identified for different resistance mechanisms in the model plant Arabidopsis. Subsequently, this knowledge will be transferred to ornamental and other crops. In this multidisciplinary proposal, the mechanisms will be characterized at the molecular, biochemical, physiological and ecological level and can subsequently, together with the novel insect behaviour assay systems, be used to screen large numbers of lines of various crop species for orthologous genes and markers involved in similar resistance mechanisms. For this research programme we will employ 2 PhD students.
Eligibility:
An MSc degree in Biology, Plant Biotechnology or Plant Sciences with a multidisciplinary profile. You should be a molecular biologist or plant biotechnologist with affinity to ecology of insect-plant interactions or an insect-plant ecologist that has experience with molecular techniques. Experience with investigating arthropod behaviour, statistics and computer technology will be considered an additional value. You should be a team player with demonstrable experience in collaboration with ecologists, molecular biologists and/or entomologists. Excellent communication skills.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 16 January 2011
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The candidate will realize an experimental setup for spatial intensity and phase modulation aimed to obtain focusing of light beams in ordered or disordered nanostructures [1]. The degree of focusing will be studied for different kinds of nanostructures (like photonic crystals[2] and photonic glass[3]) and for nonlinear systems. Job will include the developing of a genetic optimization algorithm, and time resolved measurements. Candidate will have the opportunity to exploit advanced devices (femtosecond lasers, spatial light modulators, correlated single photon counters). The present value of the fellowship is between 1200 and 1500 euro/month depending on the CV of the candidate.
Scholarship Application Deadline: Feb. 25th 2011
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