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 ***************************************