The Graduate School of Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, and the German Government within the German university excellence program) at the University of Luebeck is now offering a PhD scholarship for the project “Efficient Methods of Exact Solutions of Complex Problems in Molecular Biology“ in the research field of Computing in Structural and Cell Biology.

The Project:
Finding an optimal alignment is a very difficult and time consuming task due to the inherent algorithmic complexity. Therefore, most software systems provide only approximate solutions. We have developed new exact sequential algorithms that give better performance. A current PhD project tries to parallelise our new methods in a suitable way such that further significant speedups by parallel processing can be achieved. The algorithms are tested on our high performance shared-memory parallel machine SunFire 15K. An important innovation for our solution is the reduction of the tasks to specific graph theoretical problems that can be solved efficiently also in parallel, for example to distance problems in specific regular graphs.?

PhD scholarship amounts to 1250 € per month. Students with a master’s degree (or its equivalent) in computer science, mathematics or engineering are invited to apply for admission. The application deadline is January 15, 2009. In certain cases, students must submit, as part of their application, the results of one of the acknowledged language tests to prove their English proficiency.

For further information, please visit our website at www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions via email: management[ at ]gradschool.uni-luebeck.de before sending your application.

The Graduate School of Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, and the German Government within the German university excellence program) at the University of Luebeck is now offering a PhD scholarship for the project “Synaptic Plasticity: Regulatory Mechanisms in Receptor Trafficking“ in the research field of Computing in Structural and Cell Biology.

The project deals with the modelling and the simulation of the molecular mechanisms of LTP and LTD in the synaptic transmissions. The proposed project aims in the explanation of fundamental mechanisms of multistable reactions both in synaptic plasticity and in more general context. An essential part of such reactions is a positive-feedback loop, which has been found in various biochemical and medical investigations.?

PhD scholarship amounts to 1250 € per month. Students with a master’s degree (or its equivalent) in computer science, mathematics or engineering are invited to apply for admission. The application deadline is January 15, 2009. In certain cases, students must submit, as part of their application, the results of one of the acknowledged language tests to prove their English proficiency.

For further information, please visit our website at www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions via email: management[ at ]gradschool.uni-luebeck.de before sending your application.

The Graduate School of Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, and the German Government within the German university excellence program) at the University of Luebeck is now offering a PhD scholarship for the project “Computational analysis of RNA structure “ in the research field of Computing in Structural and Cell Biology.

The Project: We propose to develop computer-based tools for the automated theoretical design of gene interruption and to implement suitable algorithms. The development will be based on novel machine learning methods for motif detection and classification.

PhD scholarship amounts to 1250 € per month. Students with a master’s degree (or its equivalent) in computer science, mathematics or engineering are invited to apply for admission. The application deadline is January 15, 2009. In certain cases, students must submit, as part of their application, the results of one of the acknowledged language tests to prove their English proficiency.

For further information, please visit our website at www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions via email: management[ at ]gradschool.uni-luebeck.de before sending your application.

The Graduate School of Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, and the German Government within the German university excellence program) at the University of Luebeck is now offering a PhD scholarship for the project “Analysis of adult stem cells by computer vision“ in the research field of Computing in Structural and Cell Biology.

In this project, time-lapse imaging of living cells is combined with computer vision and machine learning technologies to discover patterns in the in vitro behaviour of the cells. This non-invasive approach has the advantage that the cells are left undisturbed, since already small perturbations may alter the growth and differentiation characteristics of the cells. Moreover, the method allows for the investigation of large cell numbers, thus ensuring the statistical relevance of the obtained data.

PhD scholarship amounts to 1250 € per month. Students with a master’s degree (or its equivalent) in computer science, mathematics or engineering are invited to apply for admission. The application deadline is January 15, 2009. In certain cases, students must submit, as part of their application, the results of one of the acknowledged language tests to prove their English proficiency.

For further information, please visit our website at www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions via email: management[ at ]gradschool.uni-luebeck.de before sending your application.

The Graduate School of Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, and the German Government within the German university excellence program) at the University of Luebeck is now offering a PhD scholarship for the project “Correction of Susceptibility caused Distortions in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging” in the research field of methods for brain mapping and imaging.

Recently a research group at the host university has discovered a method for computing the distortions of the static field in MRI. This method is based on multi-grid methods, and has been successfully applied to the correction of the geometric distortions in T1-weighted images.

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