[ome-devel] Fwd: Open PhD position for a Master's student with OMERO experience

[Jason Swedlow]

Dear All-

See email below from Ronan Fleming.

Cheers,

Jason

Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression | Open Microscopy Environment | University of Dundee

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Subject: Open PhD position for a Master's student with OMERO experience
From: "Ronan M.T. Fleming" <ronan.mt.fleming at gmail.com>
To: jason at lifesci.dundee.ac.uk,richard.baldock at igmm.ed.ac.uk,gaudenz_danuser at hms.harvard.edu,ilan.davis at bioch.ox.ac.uk,igg at nih.gov,murphy at cmu.edu,pfid at pasteur.fr
CC: Wilma Woudenberg <W.Woudenberg at dundee.ac.uk>



Dear Prof. Swedlow, Prof. Baldock, Prof. Danuser, Prof. Davis, Prof.
Shorte, Dr. Goldberg, and Dr. Murphy,

last year I had a summer undergraduate student install and maintain an
OMERO instance within my old laboratory in Iceland. Motivated by that
positive experience, I'm trying to hire a new PhD student with
existing OMERO experience and an interest to start to build a
morphologically accurate computational model of neuronal
electrophysiology, metabolism, and subcellular mitochondrial transport
from microscopy images. My group's expertise is in computational
modeling of metabolism (e.g. see doi:10.1038/nbt.2488), which we would
like to apply to the study of Parkinson's Disease, in particular
dopaminergic neurons. Most genome-scale metabolic models have a single
cytoplasmic compartment, assuming spatial concentration gradients are
negligible. Clearly this assumption does not apply to neuronal
cytoplasm, especially for dopaminergic neurons with their long axons
and extensive axonal arborisation.

I'd be very grateful if one of you could help me find a suitable
candidate. (I pasted the advert below)

Regards,

Dr. Ronan Fleming,
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine.


------- Open PhD Position ------->
The University of Luxembourg has the following vacancy in the
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB):

Doctoral Candidate (PhD student) in Systems Biochemistry (m/f)
* Fixed-term contract 3 years, 40h/week
* Employee status (start date: as soon as possible)

Area:
Morphological reconstruction and computational modelling of dopaminergic neurons

Mission:
* Algorithmic reconstruction of dopaminergic neuronal morphology from
in vitro and in situ microscopy images (See these doi’s:
10.1523/?JNEUROSCI.4029-08.2009, 10.1038/nature12107,
10.1016/j.neuron.2007.03.025, 10.1109/TVCG.2011.55,
10.1002/bies.201200032)
* Multiscale computational modeling of electrophysiology, metabolism
and subcellular organelle transport in morphologically accurate
dopaminergic neuronal models using numerical optimization algorithms
(See doi:10.1038/nbt.2488 and
http://www.stanford.edu/group/SOL/multiscale/index.html).

Profile:
* A Master degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Applied
Mathematics or related disciplines.
* Experience of version controlled software development in Python and MATLAB.
* Experience with open source bioimage informatics and analysis
platforms, e.g., OMERO.
* Excellent spoken and written English.
.
Offer:
* Fully funded position in an exciting international environment,
where the working language is English.
* Opportunity to join the Systems Biochemistry Group within the
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine and enroll in the Doctoral
School in Systems and Molecular Biomedicine
* The University offers highly competitive salaries based on the
candidate's experience and is an equal opportunity employer.

Further Information
Informal enquiries can be made to:
Dr. Ronan M.T. Fleming,
Principal Investigator,
Systems Biochemistry Group,
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine.
www.uni.lu/lcsb/research/systems_biochemistry

Applications (in English) should contain the following documents:
* A detailed curriculum vitae
* Cover letter mentioning the reference number
* List of publications
* Description of past research experience and how future interests
complement the proposed role
* Name and addresses of three referees
<------ Open PhD Position --------



My References for this email:
http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/about/who-ome
http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/gre/staff/jason-swedlow
http://www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/people/r.baldock.html
http://lccb.hms.harvard.edu/
https://sites.google.com/site/davislaboxford/lab-members/ilan-davis
http://www.grc.nia.nih.gov/branches/lg/iicbu/iicbu.htm
http://murphylab.web.cmu.edu/
http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/RAR/RAR2012/ShortePFID.pdf

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Mr. Ronan MT Fleming B.V.M.S. Dip. Math. Ph.D.
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Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine,
University of Luxembourg,
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Luxembourg,
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