Postdoctoral Opportunities

The University of Innsbruck invites applications for the position of a Full Professorship in Microbiology at the Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck.
The position will be based on a permanent civil-law employment contract with the University. PDF with information attached.

Please see the revised Terms and Conditions for the new Webster Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Environmental Sciences.
Established in honour of the late Earle J.D. Webster, the Webster Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Environmental Sciences was created to fund ground-breaking environmental science research toward making a better planet. Webster attended OAC in 1927, and later went on to distinguish himself as an elementary school educator and author. He showed lifelong interest in both geology and forestry. Applicants will be considered on the basis of demonstrated research excellence in subject areas related to environmental sciences, with preference to research in natural resource management (including forestry and geology). Apply to the OAC Awards Committee with an academic CV, a letter of support from the sponsoring OAC faculty member and a research proposal for the project(s) to be completed in the Fellowship year by April 15.2012.

Please find attached the Terms and Conditions for the new Webster Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Environmental Sciences. This generous award ($50,000 per offering) was made possible by a donation in honour of the late Earle J.D. Webster and was created to fund ground-breaking environmental science research toward making a better planet. Please see attached for more information and conditions.

We are looking for outstanding candidates for this post-doctoral position.  If you have such a candidate in mind, please have her/him send in an application (CV, letter of support from you, and research proposal for the project) to oacaward@uogueloh.ca and copied to Bev Hale (bhale@uoguelph.ca) by APRIL 15.  The selected candidate is expected to start his/her research between May 1 and Sep 1, 2012.*Application form attached.

What’s Mitacs Step?
·       Program provides graduate students and postdocs with opportunities to build on their professional and transferrable skill sets.
·       Opportunities are open to all past, present and prospective graduate students and postdocs.
 
Why should you Attend?
·       Strengthen your working relationships, increase your ability to connect with industry, improve research results and impact.
·       Access to industry recognized expertise.
 

Artist in Residence Past & Present Lecture

We are seeking applications for a Post-Doctoral Researcher to study the evolutionary genomic consequences of plant sexual reproduction in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (www.eeb.utoronto.ca) and the Department of Biology (www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3bio/homepage) at the University of Toronto. This project seeks to understand how repeated transitions between sexual and functionally asexual reproduction in the evening primrose family (Onagraceae) have shaped the evolution of plant transcriptomes, including the diversity and levels of expressed genes, the strength of selection of protein coding regions, the structural evolution of proteins, and the demographic and speciation history of sexual and asexual lineages.

This project is ideally suited for individuals seeking to be productive while doing cutting edge research within a large collaborative group that includes diverse interests and expertise. The successful candidate will be an integral and leading member of a group of researchers from Canada, U.S.A., Germany, Finland, Poland and China, where the collaborators’ expertise spans evolution, ecology, chemistry, physiology, cytogenetics and bioinformatics. In collaboration with the One Thousand Plant Initiative we have generated a large Illumina transcriptome dataset of 60 populations that represent over 30 species taken from a well resolved phylogeny of Oenothera, where there have been over 15 transitions between sexual and asexual reproduction.