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Fully Funded PhD Positions in Synthetic Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

scholarshipnigeria / March 23, 2011 Leave a Comment

The following PhD position is available.
Detection of protein dynamics using single molecule fluorescence confocal microscopy.

The ability to detect the fluorescence of a single fluorophore has led to great advances in understanding of heterogeneity and dynamics at the nanoscale level in life and material sciences. The specific emission properties of fluorophores like its intensity, decay time, emission wavelength (spectrum) and anisotropy can be used to probe changes in the fluorophores surrounding. For example, fluorescence decay time changes can be used as a powerful tool to monitor quenching and energy transfer processes. A confocal microscope setup will be developed with multiple avalanche photodiodes and a spectrometer (polychromator/CCD camera) that can be used to monitor changes in multiple parameters of the single fluorophore´s emission at the same time, providing a wealth of information. In order to extract as much information as possible, it is important to choose fluorophores with a high absorption coefficient, high fluorescence, low triplet, and low photobleaching quantum yield. For this, organic fluorophores (with and without the presence of photostability enhancing additives, like e.g. ROXS) will be tested and compared with a new class of silver cluster based emitters, attached to proteins in order to determine their photo stability performance. As a test case we will investigate the conformational changes that occur during binding and transport of substrate within the neurotransmitter transporter homologue, LeuT.

Qualifications
A MSc or equivalent degree in a field relevant to the research project and good English skills are required.

Scholarship Application Deadline:1st of April 2011, 12 noon

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PhD Positions in ICT in Information Engineering and Computer Science at University of Trento,2011, Italy

scholarshipnigeria / March 15, 2011 Leave a Comment

Admission requirements :Applications must be filled using the online application.Complete information on how to enrol will be published in late March.The notification of the results is considered as delivered through the announcement of the list.The successful applicants will not receive personal communications of their results.Recognition of Academic Titles :In order to apply for this call your academic titles DO NOT need to have been officially recognised by Italian authorities.Official recognition is not provided by the University, it is a governmental procedure which needs to be undertaken by the person concerned.

If you have already had your titles recognised in the past as equivalent to an Italian Degree, you should state it in your application, indicating the Italian Rector’s Decree recognising equivalence number (given by Italian authorities).
Candidates who have a foreign degree that has not been officially recognised as equivalent to the Italian degree must upload as attachment 2 (in the application Call form) an English translation, signed by the candidate, to enable the Doctoral School Committee to evaluate a possible equivalence.
PLEASE NOTE that in case you are accepted to the School you will be asked to provide (no later than the 10.11.2011) a Dicihiarazione di Valore issued by the Italian Embassy based in the country where the University that delivered your titles is from.Areas covered by the call include (but are not limited to) the following.
Please refer to the call for information on the application and selection procedure for generic and project-specific grants.

Scholarship Application Deadline:16th of March, 2011

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