Eleven four-year doctoral student positions open in the Biocenter Oulu Doctoral Programme (BCO-DP), University of Oulu
The University of Oulu, located at the heart of the globally recognized Oulu region R&D hub in Northern Finland, is an international scientific community, with 16 000 students and approximately 3 000 employees. The strenghts of the University are wide multidisciplinary study/research interests and modern research and study environment and good cooperation with international educational and research institutes.
BCO-DP is an integral part of Biocenter Oulu (BCO), which is a research institute heading the University of Oulu´s (UO) strategic research focus area of Biosciences and Health. BCO-DP operates in an international high-quality multidisciplinary research environment supplied with cutting-edge infrastructures, providing doctoral training in cell and molecular biology, molecular medicine, genetics, structural biology, bioinformatics, biocomputing, biobusiness and interdisciplinary topics.
The following jobs are open: Eleven (11) four-year doctoral training positions 2016-2019 in the Biocenter Oulu Doctoral Programme (BCO-DP) in Biosciences, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and related fields.
Position
Research topic of the research group or title of the project
Project Leader(s)
POSITION 1:
Computational Medicine: Population-based stratification of individual cardiovascular risk - a multi-omics approach (epidemiology focus)
Mika Ala-Korpela
POSITION 2:
Computational Medicine: Population-based stratification of individual cardiovascular risk - a multi-omics approach (genetics focus)
Johannes Kettunen
POSITIONS 3 and 4:
Molecular mechanisms of actin-based motility
Inari Kursula
POSITION 5:
Hypoxia response pathway as a target for novel therapeutics
Johanna Myllyharju and Peppi Karppinen
POSITION 6:
Molecular Determinants of Metabolic Syndrome (MetSyn)
Markku Savolainen, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin and Karl-Heinz Herzig
POSITION 7:
Dysfunction of cellular metabolic and signaling pathways behind severe neurological and multiorgan diseases in children
Johanna Uusimaa and Reetta Hinttala
POSITIONS 8 and 9:
Regulatory Genomics and Functional Cancer Genetics
Gonghong Wei
POSITION 10:
Structural Enzymology: A Quantitative Approach
Rik Wierenga
POSITION 11:
Assessing the role of ubiquitin-specific protease-28 (USP28) for adipose tissue homeostasis
Thomas Kietzmann and Pamela Fischer-Posovszky
For further information about the available positions and the application process, please see: http://www.oulu.fi/uniogs/doctoralstudentpositionscall. The BCO-DP positions are under sub-call 9, and all application documents are to be submitted electronically before the deadline on Wednesday 09.09.2015, at 24.00 (midnight, Finnish local time, UTC + 3hr).
*************************************** Ritva Saastamoinen, PhD, Docent Biocenter Oulu Doctoral Programme Coordinator Adjunct associate professor
Biocenter Oulu PL 5000 (Aapistie 5a) FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland
Tel: (+358) 0294 48 6102 ritva.saastamoinen(at)oulu.fi ***************************************