[ome-users] PHD and Postdoc Studentship

[Juhui WANG]

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An innovative and outstanding young scientist training program is 
available at INRA (http://www.international.inra.fr/). The studentship 
will be founded for 5 years at once. The first three years will be 
devoted to a PhD training which is supported by three French 
laboratories: Team BANG (contact: dirk.drasdo at inria.fr) at INRIA, Unit 
MIA (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics – contact: 
Juhui.Wang at jouy.inra.fr) and Unit BDR (Developmental Biology and 
Reproduction – contact: Isabelle.Hue at jouy.inra.fr) at INRA. The last two 
years will be devoted to a post-doc training at foreign laboratories 
outside France.

The successful candidate will be expected to work on a funded project 
developing a computational model of the bovine trophoblast morphogenesis 
which is capable of explaining the growth and pattern formation observed 
in the developmental processes. The simulation method will combine 
individual-cell-based models (for further information on this model 
type: http://ms.izbi.uni-leipzig.de/) with continuum equations for the 
intracellular regulation to investigate the effects of chemical 
substance production, transport and consumption on the properties of the 
cells and the shape of the developing embryo. Image processing is used 
to analyze the experimentally found development scenario. Basic 
optimization techniques will be used to identify the most likely out of 
the possible models and estimate the model parameters, and sensitivity 
analysis will be considered to analyze the model behavior.

The new fellow will also play an integral role in ongoing collaborations 
with leading scientists on embryonic development and biomedical 
engineering/computational tissue modeling.

Applicants should have a master degree relevant to mathematical, 
physical, or biomedical modeling. The applicant must be highly 
motivated. Technical skills in basic applied mathematics and programming 
(C/C++, if possible: OpenGL) are necessary. The base salary is about 
2000 Euros per month for the PhD training period and 2500 Euros per 
month for the Post-doc training period. Further information including 
the research context may be obtained from the persons mentioned at the 
first paragraph. APPLICATIONS WILL PROBABLY CLOSE BEFORE THE END OF MAY.

To apply, Please take contact with us immediately. The application might 
be highly competing.

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Juhui WANG						Email:	juhui.wang at jouy.inra.fr	
INRA - Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées		Tel:	+(33) 01 34 65 22 29	
Domaine de Vilvert					Fax: 	+(33) 01 34 65 22 17	
F-78352 Jouy-en-Josas