Two PhD positions at Pharmaceutical Biosciences, UU

Currently Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences at BMC Uppsala has two PhD positions open for application. The PI encourages applicants with suitable backgrounds, not least from either of the Masters or Masters in Engineering Programmes for Molecular Biotechnology or Bioinformatics, as applies for the respective positions. Please note the tight deadline and read further in the pdf´s!

Pharmaceutical Science with a focus on automated phenotypic drug profiling

Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics with a focus on analysis of high-content imaging with AI

Department: Pharmaceutical Biosciences, UU
Place: BMC Uppsala
Start: March 1, 2021 or as else agreed upon
Application: Deadline January 28, 2021

Framtidsmässan Digital 2021

Framtidsmässan är Sveriges största karriärevent för och om offentligt sektor. Det är en heldag där universitet- och högskolestudenter samt nyutexaminerade kan träffa arbetsgivare i offentlig sektor från hela landet. Det finns goda karriärmöjligheter inom offentlig sektor och detta är det perfekta tillfället för dig att fixa sommarjobbet, exjobbet, praktiken eller knyta värdefulla kontakter inför framtiden! Även i år arrangeras mässan digitalt.

Framtidsmässan 2021

Arrangörer: Framtidsverket i samarbete med flera andra organisationer
Plats: Online
Tid: 25 mars, kl 9-16
Anmälan: Registrera dig via länk i pdf:en

PhD position in biodiversity of restored wetlands, Copenhagen

The Department of Biology at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) is offering a PhD position on Biodiversity and climate gas exchange commencing April 1, 2021 or as soon as possible thereafter. The overall aim of this PhD project is to: Quantify how changes in hydrology and disturbance regime of wetlands influence multi-taxon biodiversity and how plant functional composition relates to greenhouse gas exchange. More info in the pdf! Additional PhD positions at University of Copehagen can be found here!

PhD position in Biodiversity of restored wetlands

Department: Biology, University of Copenhagen
Place: Copenhagen, Denmark
Start: April 1, 2021 or soon thereafter
Application: Deadline February 8, 2021

Degree projects and research training in epigenetics, plasticity and adaptation

The Nematode lab at Animal Ecology, EBC, is looking for students interested in evolutionary aspects of epigenetic inheritance, phenotypic plasticity, adaptation and their interplay. They use either experimental evolution or genetic manipulation (mutants, RNAi) in nematode model organisms (Caenorhabditis remanei and C. elegans) to answer evolutionary questions. Please see the pdf for further details!

Master theses / Research training using nematode models

Department: IEG, UU
Place: EBC, Uppsala 
Start: As agreed upon
Application: Contact the PI!

Greensways Fältprogram inom naturvård, 2021

Nu öppnar ansökan till Greensways Fältprogram år 2021, ett årligen återkommande utvecklingsprogram hos konsultföretaget Greensway. Du får värdefulla erfarenheter samtidigt som du är anställd med lön. De söker dig som är intresserad av naturvård och fortfarande studerar eller just har tagit examen. Fältprogrammet är en unik möjlighet till erfarenhet av tillämpat miljöarbete i ett utvecklingsinriktat företag. Läs vidare i pdf:en och på företagets hemsida, via länkar i pdf:en!

Greensways fältprogram 2021

Företag: Greensway
Plats: Uppsala
Start: Fältsäsongen 2021
Ansökan: Deadline 31 januari!

Two PhD positions in Potsdam/Bremen, Germany

Here are a couple of interesting PhD student positions in paleogenetics / paleoecology that you are very welcome to consider applying for if these are areas of interest to you!

PhD 1: "Bioinformatic pipelines for metagenomic data from sedimentary ancient DNA"

PhD 2: “Palaeogenomic network analyses”

Departments: Geosciences, Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (both positions) / Computational Systems Biology, Life Sciences & Chemistry, Jacobs University (collab. position 2)
Places: Potsdam / Bremen (alt. for position 2), Germany
Start: Not explicitly specified
Application: Deadline for both is February 17, 2021

KarriärTisdagar i vår/ CareerTuesdays this semester

Nu drar vårens KarriärTisdagar igång - kolla schemat! / The spring semester CareerTuesdays are commencing - check the schedule!

KT Schema / CT schedule

Organisatör: UU Karriär/UU Careers, Uppsala universitet
Plats: Online
Tid: Se schemat

Exjobb- och praktikplatser på SLU Artdatabanken

SLU Artdatabanken är ett viktigt kunskapscentrum för Sveriges arter, naturtyper och för biologisk mångfald. De bidrar till en hållbar förvaltning av naturresurser genom att samla in, analysera och tillgängliggöra data samt beskriva och presentera fakta om biologisk mångfald. Här erbjuder de möjligheter till examensarbeten eller ev. praktik. Om du som student vill göra något med naturvårdsrelevans hos dem, så bifogas här flera förslag på arbeten på kandidat- eller masternivå samt tilltänkta handledare. Ta kontakt med dem om något verkar intressant för dig!

Projektförslag, SLU Artdatabanken

Institution: SLU Artdatabanken
Plats: Campus Ultuna, Uppsala
Start: Våren 2021 (och framåt)
Ansökan: Kontakta tilltänkt handledare!

Degree projects in molecular cancer genetics, Rudbecklab.

The Molecular Cancer Genetics group at IGP, Rudbeck Laboratory, is looking for students interested in improving treatment and diagnostics for cancer. Different proposed projects range from studies of initial cancer formation over its development and metastasizing on to improvements of diagnosis and treatment. Here are possibilities for a number of interesting degree projects - read the pdf for specific present proposals!

Molecular cancer genetics, IGP

Department: IGP, UU
Place: Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala 
Start: As agreed upon
Application: Contact the PI!

PhD position in Arctic global change biology, Aarhus University

Applications are invited for a PhD fellowship/scholarship at Graduate School of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark, within the Bioscience programme. The title of the projects is "Climate change and long-term shifts in phenology and community dynamics of Arctic plants and arthropods".

PhD, Arctic global change biology

Department: Department for Bioscience / Bioscience Programme, Graduate School of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University
Place: Aarhus (/Greenland), Denmark
Start: May 1 (or later), 2021
Application: Deadline February 1, 2021

Help develop a new cleaning product at HM Group AB

Here is a project offer suitable principally for a long term Research training/Internship or Project work, perhaps ideally in an extended part time format. Talk to supervisor and your course coordinator about possible arrangements! You will be able to follow and help in this initiative, from early stages with contacts at biotech companies for analyses, with certification processes and potential clients. If work goes well during the spring there may potentially be opportunity to work in the project also during the summer.

HMG AB: New cleaning product

Company: HM Group AB
Place: Uppsala
Start: Spring 2021 (or later) according to agreements
Application: A.s.a.p., initial contact via mail link inside the pdf!

Master thesis project: "Isolating yeasts from historical artifacts", EBC

Do you want to contribute to establishing a historic record of yeast and its use throughout history? Here is a project, suitable for a degree project (or possibly a research training as an alternative - ask the supervisors!) with that scope. You will attempt to isolate yeast from specific historical artifacts, traditionally used for baking and brewing, in order to investigate the molecular differences between yeast strains from various historical periods. The items will be provided by the Gustavianum (the Uppsala University museum collection). Isolates will then be genome sequenced for state-of-the-art comparative genomics. Read more in the pdf!

Isolating yeasts from historical artifacts

Department: IEG/IOB/SciLifeLab, UU
Place: EBC, Uppsala
Start: Spring 2021, possibly later
Application: Contact the PIs/supervisors!

Vem är din bästa lärare? / Who is your favourite teacher?

Dags att nominera kandidater till Pedagogiska priserna 2021! Se detaljinfo i pdf! / Time to nominate candidates for the 2021 Pedagogic Awards! See detailed info in the pdf!

Ped priset 2021 - Sve/Eng

Organiser: Division for quality enhancement, UU
Deadline for nominations: March 18, 2021

Taxonomic-specific sorting of microbes using microfluidics, EBC/SciLifeLab

Would you like to contribute to the development of a method that could revolutionize the study of microbial diversity? Here is a proposal for a project, suitable for a degree project (or possibly a research training - ask the supervisors!), meant to increase the toolbox for taxonomic studies of microbes, by way of enrichment of target cells using microfluidic sorting after PCR-based discriminatory amplification. Read more in the pdf!

Taxonomic-specific sorting of microbes using microfluidics

Department: IOB/SciLifeLab, UU
Place: EBC, Uppsala
Start: Spring 2021, possibly later
Application: Contact the PI/supervisor!

Four master thesis projects in the Behrendt lab, EBC/SciLifeLab

Here are four interesting degree projects, offered at EBC/SciLifeLab, that you may want to consider. Get all the details about the specific projects and contact info from the attached pdfs! Molecular biotechnology students (masters or masters in engineering) are particularly encouraged to apply!

Does light mediate bacteria-phytoplankton interactions?

The phenotyping of single microalgae for industry applications

The biophotonic behavior of coral symbionts

The effects of hypoxia on single phytoplankton cells

Department: Department of Environmental Toxicology, IOB/SciLifeLab, UU
Place: EBC, Uppsala
Start: Spring 2021, possibly later
Application: Contact the PI/supervisor!

Master degree project on amyloid-like β-lactoglobulin protein, KTH

Protein nano-fibrils research is an expanding area with great interest mostly because of applications in biomaterials, food technology, and the study of degenerative diseases. The milk protein β-lactoglobulin serves as a useful model in which fiber formation processes can be studied. In this particular project, you will survey the background factors (temperature, concentration, time of incubation, etc.) that give higher yields and structural homogeneity of recombinant β-lactoglobulin fibers.

Fibrillation processes and morphology studies of amyloid-like β-lactoglobulin protein

Department: Protein Technology, KTH
Place: AlbaNova Univercity Center, Stockholm
Start: By agreement
Application: Contact supervisors/PI!

Two interesting research training offers at Neuroscience, BMC Uppsala

Here are offers for two potential internships/research training projects at BMC Uppsala. One concerns plasticizers and their effects on endocrine signalling and cancer development, the other setting up a luciferase reporter system for being able to study circadian rythm in cell cultures. Read further in the two pdfs!

Plasticizers and cancer

Luciferase reporter system for studying circadian rythm

Department: Neuroscience, UU
Place: BMC Uppsala
Start: By agreement
Application: Contact the PI!

Two PhD positions at University of Würzburg, Germany

Here are two PhD positions in Animal Ecology, presently open to apply for at University of Würzburg. Please note that they have slightly different deadlines if you intend to apply!

PhD position 1: honeybee ecology

PhD position 2: tropical agroecology

Department: Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg
Place: Würzburg, Germany
Start: Spring 2021
Application: No later than January 31, 2021 (PhD 1) or January 21, 2021 (PhD 2)

Master or bachelor degree project 2021: "Bats in towns"

Would you be interested in doing a degree project meant to help Tierp municipality know more about their bat populations? So that they may protect them better, for example by planning for parks or patches of nature where they are found in larger densities. This knowledge will also help identify town areas where there is a need to strengthen the green infrastructure in order to make it functional. Talk to your course coordinator about help finding an academic supervisor!

Investigating bat populations in towns, Tierp municipality

Workplace: Tierp municipality
Place: Tierp
Start: Spring/summer 2021
Application: Use the contact email provided in the pdf!

Examensarbete/forskningspraktik inom infektionsbiologi hos ryggradslösa djur, EBC

Gillar du att arbeta i labbet och är intresserad av ovanstående ämne och jämförelser med hur motsvarande system fungerar i högre djur? Här finns spännande och flexibla möjligheter till exjobb eller forskningspraktik, på kandidat- eller masternivå, under våren 2021, eller ev. senare. Läs vidare i den bilagda pdf-filen och ta en kontakt för vidare diskussion av detaljer om detta låter intressant!

Infektionsbiologi hos sötvattenkräfta

Institution: IOB, UU
Plats: EBC, Uppsala
Start: VT 2021
Ansökan: Kontakta PI/handledare!

Internships: wildlife conservation in the Aegean sea

Archipelagos Institute is a Greek non‐profit, non‐governmental organization committed to the biodiversity of the Greek seas and islands. Among other things Archipelagos continually hosts students and young scholars from a wide range of disciplines in their multidisciplinary research projects meant to protect the rare wildlife in the Aegean sea.

Internships at Archipelagos - general info

Internships at Archipelagos - specific projects 2021

Remote internships 2021 (if you are unable to travel due to Covid-19 restrictions)

Institute: Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation
Place: Pythagoria, Samos, Greece
Start: Depends on the project/agreements
Application: Direct inquiries to Archipelagos (link inside the pdfs above!)

Växa Sverige is seeking a new colleague within Big Data and Genetics

The breeding organisation Växa Sverige is looking for someone with an academic degree in bioinformatics, IT and informatics, data techniques or similar. Växa Sverige has a comprehensive database with registrations and information about Swedish cattle. The position will cover a combination of new method development and new data usage, as well as some regular job assignments of a more routine nature, such as preparing data before the monthly breeding evaluations and calculating genomic values. Our new colleague will also be a key figure in a larger project aimed at updating the IT infrastructure regarding breeding services. In addition to the tasks mentioned above, there will be opportunities in the future for data processing and development in some of our other knowledge areas, such as animal health, epidemiology or feeding.

Position, Växa Sverige: Genetics & Big Data (Sve & Eng)

Company: Växa Sverige
Place: Uppsala (or possibly elsewhere as agreed upon)
Start: Spring 2021
Application: Deadline January 20, 2021

Evening course: Modeling in Ecology and Evolution

Here is a joint master/PhD student course that will be run part-time, mainly Tuesday evenings, during January-March 2021. If interested, please check the details in the pdf and on the course web page (linked inside the pdf) and register pronto! Note the short deadline!

Evening course: Modeling in Ecology and Evolution

Course organisers: IEG, Animal Ecology, UU
Place: EBC, Uppsala / Online
Start: January 19, 2021
Registration: Deadline January 8 (Note the close deadline!)

Scholarships - Swedish Phytogeographical Society

The Swedish Phytogeographical Society each year offers a number of research scholarships, from the B. Lundman's Fund for Botanical Studies and the B. Lundman's Fund for Anthropological Studies, with deadline January 31. The Society promotes, among many other topics, research projects in plant ecology and plant geography. Scholarships are awarded to members of the Society, primarily to postgraduate students and students at Uppsala University. See further details inside the pdf and on the linked Society web pages!

Scholarships 2021 - Swedish Phytogeographical Society

Organisation: Swedish Phytogeographical Society
Place: Depends on the project applied for
Start: Depends on the project applied for
Application: See detailed instructions! Deadline January 31, 2021

PhD student in marine biodiversity, University of Gothenburg

Department of Marine Sciences is seeking a curious and enthusiastic PhD student to work with questions relating to the functional consequence of changes in biodiversity. You will join the Functional Biodiversity Lab at the department, whos current main focus is to better understand the consequences of biodiversity change as one moves across multiple spatial scales.

PhD: Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across spatial scales

Department: Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg
Place: Gothenburg
Start: Not specified (/by agreement)
Application: Deadline January 17, 2021

Max Planck summer internship program, Munich, Germany

Interested in the new Summer Internship Program (MaxSIP), recently launched jointly by the Max Planck Institutes of Neurobiology and of Biochemistry in Munich, Germany? MaxSIP provides opportunities for highly motivated Bachelor and Master students to join one of the labs at the two participating Max Planck Institutes, to conduct a 10-week summer research internship project. The fully funded program will allow participating students to become familiar with different scientific approaches and advanced laboratory methods.

Max Planck summer internship program

Departments: Max Planck Institutes of Neurobiology and of Biochemistry
Place: Munich, Germany
Start: Summer 2021
Application: Between January 1 and February 15, 2021

15 PhD positions: CeMM International PhD Program in Molecular Technologies and Systems Medicine

CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, is offering 15 fully funded PhD positions to bachelor/master graduates to join their International PhD Program in Molecular Technologies and Systems Medicine. They are seeking students from a wide range of backgrounds, who have "a keen interest in interdisciplinary teamwork and science that will nurture the precise, personalized, predictive and preventive medicine of the future".

CeMM International PhD Program in Molecular Technologies and Systems Medicine

Department: CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Place: Vienna, Austria
Start: September 2021
Application: Deadline January 27, 2021

Miljöförvaltningen, Borås Stad, söker praktikant

Borås Stad har under hösten påbörjat framtagandet av nya miljömål. Under vinter/vår 2021 ska nuvarande mål revideras, genom att utvärdera miljöarbetet hos förvaltningar och kommunala bolag samt ta fram underlag till framtida miljöarbete. Till detta arbete söker de en praktikant som kan bistå under vårterminen. Arbetet kan även skötas digitalt på distans. Ta en snabb kontakt om detta låter intressant för dig!

Praktikant Borås

Arbetsgivare: Borås Stad
Plats: Arbetet kan skötas på distans/on-line
Start: A.s.a.p.!/Våren 2021
Ansökan: Ta en omedelbar kontakt!!

Projects in bee genomics, IMBIM, UU

Motivated master students interested in doing a project on bee genomics are encouraged to explore offers at IMBIM, BMC (see the pdf). Different projects suitable for students interested in bioinformatics, lab work, and/or field collections are available. The lab. uses next generation sequencing to study evolution, population genetics, functional genomics and conservation of biodiversity in bees.

Interested in a project in bee genomics?

Department: IMBIM, UU
Place: BMC Uppsala
Start: Spring 2021
Application: Contact the PI/supervisor
 

Two Phd positions in Ecology, Linnaeus University

Linnaues University (LNU) in Kalmar is recruiting two doctoral students in Ecology to a research project that seeks to aid the understanding of consequences of future climate change in the Baltic Sea. Specifics of the two positions below, but full info about these and additional positions can also be found here.

PhD 1) Microbial ecology of Baltic Sea sediments

PhD 2) Evolutionary ecology of Baltic Sea organisms in the face of climate change

Department: Department of Biology and Environmental Science, LNU
Place: Kalmar
Start: Agreements
Application: Deadline January 8, 2021

Present PhD positions announced at Lund University

Here are a couple of PhD positions that some of you may be interested in applying for. More presently available alternatives can be found here (click Doctoral students).

PhD 1: Developmental basis of parallel evolution in Mediterranean wall lizards

PhD 2: Genome-scale evolutionary, phylogenetic, biogeographic, and population genomic studies of entomological collections at the Biological Museum

Department: Department of Biology, Lund University
Place: Lund
Start: February 1, 2021 (PhD 1) or March 1, 2021 (PhD 2) or according to agreements
Application: January 10, 2021 (PhD 1) or December 18, 2020 (PhD 2)

PhD positions currently open for application, University of Gothenburg

Here are a couple of potentially interesting PhD positions at University of Gothenburg. Even more can be found on their page with vacancies advertisements (choose Doctoral student under Professional area).

PhD 1: Tropical plant evolution

PhD 2: mRNA translation as a target in leukemia

Departments: Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences (BioEnv) and Medical Sciences, University of Gothenburg, respectively
Place: Gothenburg
Start: Agreements
Application: Deadlines December 15 (PhD 1) and December 28 (PhD 2) 

PhD student position in Biology, SLU

Here is an opening for a position as PhD student at the Dept. of Ecology, SLU Uppsala. The PhD student will collect data in an experiment placed out from northern (Gällivare) to southern (Halland) Sweden and also conduct lab experiments. An important part of the work consists of statistical modelling of how organisms respond to microclimate and predictions of the microclimate, given forest conditions and current and future climate. The supervision group consists of researchers with a background both in pest control and conservation biology.

The effect of climate on organisms associated with dead wood - consequences for biodiversity conservation and pest management

Department: Ecology, SLU
Place: Ultuna campus, Uppsala
Start: By agreement (/a.s.a.p.)
Application: Deadline Janaury 6, 2021

National Graduate School in Medical Bioinformatics 2021

If you have been or is being accepted as a PhD student in bioinformatics between January, 2020 and April, 2021 (with the possibility of some additional flexibility) you are eligible to apply for the National Graduate School in Medical Bioinformatics; meant for "advanced education in medical bioinformatics for future leaders in life science research". The programme is limited to some 20 students annually.

National Graduate School MedBioInfo, 2021

Organisers: SciLifeLab, many different Swedish Universities, etc.
Place: Uppsala, etc.
Start: 2021
Application: February 28, 2021

PhD position in Structure Biology, Umeå University

Interested in furthering our understanding of virulence factors and their regulation in listeria infections? Then this PhD position may be of interest to you.

PhD in Structure Biology: PrfA, an important regulator/transcription factor of listeria virulence genes

Department: Chemistry, Umeå University
Place: Umeå
Start: By agreement
Application: Deadline December 10, 2020

PhD position on germline-restricted chromosomes in song birds, Norwich, UK

Although the cells within a multicellular organism originate from a single cell, they may contain massively different genomes due to programmed DNA elimination. This fascinating but understudied phenomenon consistently removes specific genome fragments or entire chromosomes (germline-restricted chromosomes, GRC) during the differentiation from germline to soma of various organisms. This PhD project aims at resolving a key mystery of programmed DNA elimination in song birds: What are the functions of the GRC in the germline and its elimination from the soma? Read more in the pdf!

PhD, Expression and elimination of the avian germline-restricted chromosome (SUHA_U21SCIEC)

Department: School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
Place: Norwich, UK
Start: October, 2021
Application: Deadline January 15, 2021

Two PhD student positions in limnology on climate change effects on ice-covered lakes, EBC

Are you interested in studying the ecology of ice covered lakes in the Northern Hemisphere? If so, you are most welcome to look into details about the positions in the attached announcement. If you know of someone else who may be interested, please also feel free to further distribute the info!

PhD student positions in limnology with focus on climate change effects on ice-covered lakes in the Northern Hemisphere

Department: Limnology, IEG, UU
Place: EBC Uppsala
Start: A.s.a.p./according to agreements
Application: No later than January 11, 2021

PhD position at Linköping University

Here is an interesting opening for a PhD studentship on “Deubiquitinases (DUBs) in Health and Disease” at Linköping University (LiU). DUBs are enzyme components of the the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS), which regulates protein turnover in cells. DUBs catalyze re-editing of poly ubiquitin chains and/or removal of ubiquitin from target substrates leading to alterations in protein stability and/or downstream signaling. The project will involve the investigation of DUBs both on a cellular and biophysical level. Read further in the pdf about details of the project and the application procedure!

PhD, “Deubiquitinases (DUBs) in Health and Disease”

Department: Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV), LiU
Place: Linköping
Start: By agreement
Application: Deadline December 11, 2020

Life Science jobb / Life Science work, AFRY

AFRY söker just nu bl.a. nyexaminerade molekylärbiologer, bioteknologer och kemister. Läs vidare i pdf! / AFRY is presently seeking newly graduated molecular biologists, biotechnologists and chemists. Read further in pdf!

Life Science careers via AFRY (se + eng)

Company: AFRY (former ÅF + Pöyry)
Place: Uppsala
Start: A.s.a.p.
Application: A.s.a.p.

Operation Wallacea - Conservation research through academic partnerships

Operation Wallacea is a network of academics from European and North American universities, who design and implement biodiversity and conservation management research expeditions. You are welcome and encouraged to join their programme and expeditions, thus strengthening your CV/resume or in order to collect data for a dissertation or thesis. Are you interested in joining a project during summer 2021, simply getting more info from their web site or register to join one of their current webinars? Read further in the pdf!

Operation Wallacea

Organisation: Operation Wallacea
Place: Different projects across the globe
Start: Info webinars on different dates currently / Expeditions during summer 2021
Application: See info in the pdf and on their web site for how to register/apply!

Degree project on spider silk nanowires for bioprinting, KTH

Spider silk is a natural polymer combining both strength and elasticity in a very neat way. Under given circumstances the soluble recombinant spider silk protein, "4RepCT", self-assembles into silk-like fibers with defined shapes, e.g. nanowires. These nanowires have similar dimensions as the extracellular matrix (ECM) that surrounds cells in tissue. When equipped with a cell adhesion motif from the ECM-protein fibronectin (FN) it even promotes adhesion and growth of human cells. Here is a master thesis that aims to investigate if such FN-silk nanowires can be used for improved bioprinting of artificial tissue with an ECM-like support, able to improve adhesion and growth of cells within a printable hydrogel. Check the pdf for further details!

Spider silk nanowires for bioprinting

Department: Department of Protein Science, KTH
Place: AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm
Start: Spring 2021
Application: Contact the PI/supervisor!

PhD position on ancient DNA from lakes sediments, Arctic University Museum of Norway

Many interesting PhD positions at KTH

Right now KTH has a lot of interesting PhD positions open for application. Three examples are found below, but additional ones can also be found on their jobs web page.

PhD Single Cell Proteomics

PhD Method Development/Artificial Plant Cells

2 PhDs Fabrication processes for bio-based nanomaterials

Departments: See the respective positions, KTH
Place: Stockholm
Start: See the respective positions
Application: Deadlines varies; see the respective positions

Enkät Bio-dagarna / Questionnaire Bio-days

Vänligen besvara enkäten om Bio-dagarna som är en nystartad arbetsgrupp för att skapa en arbetsmarknadsvecka för biologistudenter i Uppsala. / Please answer the questionnaire about Bio-days which is a newly started work- and career fair for biology students in Uppsala.

Bio-dagarna / Bio-days

Arrangör: Arbetsgruppen för Bio-dagarna i samarbete med BÄR 

Master level internship/research training at the Human Evolution Program, EBC

With recent advances in whole-genome sequencing and with the concomitant development of novel population genetics and bio-informatics methods, reconstructing the past of human populations has reached unprecedented resolution. In this project the aim is to investigate the genomic history of West African populations as well as their impact on the genetic heritage of African-descendant populations from Latin America. The project is principally suitable for bioinformatics students.

Genomic history of West African Kingdoms

Department: IOB, UU
Place: EBC, Uppsala
Start: Spring 2021 / by agreement, but no later than March 2021
Application: Contact the PI!

1-2 master thesis projects in 3D printing and bioprinting, BMC Uppsala

Do you like to be on a team, do you like ambitious goals, and would you like to work with
technologies that will provide new solutions to important problems in the life science sector? Do you think that 3D-printing is cool? If so, please do not hesitate to reach out, to be involved in these projects. Please look in the pdf for further info and a specific detailed project example.

Degree projects on 3D- and bioprinting

Department: Medical Cell Biology, UU
Place: BMC Uppsala
Start: Spring 2021
Application: Contact the PI!

PhD position on honeybee ecology, University of Würzburg, Germany

Honeybees are fascinating social insects that provide pollination services for major crops and many wild plant species, and beekeeping allows harvest of honey and other valuable products. Land use intensification, climate change, limited availability of floral food resources as well as new pests and parasites have changed environmental conditions for honeybees and are linked to periodically occurring high winter losses during the last decades. However, the relative importance and regional variation of these factors is little understood, restricting the implementation of mitigation measures. By using innovative sensor technology, this project aims to reach a more comprehensive understanding of the hibernation and reproduction ecology of honeybee colonies across land use gradients and climatic zones.

PhD, Honeybee ecology

Department: Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg
Place: Würzburg, Germany
Start: February, 2021
Application: Via email, no later than December 11. 2020

PhD positions at KI

Presently Karolinska Institutet has several PhD positions open for application. A couple of them are found below but even more can be found on their jobs web site (choose doctoral student on the page and hit the search button).

PhD1: Cancer Biology

PhD2: Reproductive Endocrinology and Metabolism

Departments: Several different, KI (see respective position)
Places: KI campuses, Stockholm region
Start: Depends on position / usually room for agreements
Applications: See the respective position info!

Info från Studenthälsan

Studenthälsan möter många studenter som upplever oro och social isolering till följd av den pågående pandemin. Det bifogade materialet riktar sig till UUs personal men kan även delvis vara av direktintresse för er studenter som stöd och informationsmaterial med tips och idéer om hur man kan tänka runt dessa frågor och vart man kan vända sig för ytterligare stöd.

Hållbar hälsa och studietid under rådande pandemi

Organisation: Studenthälsan, UU

Two open PhD positions at Stockholm University

Here are two PhD positions presently open for application at SU! Please check the pdf´s for details on the projects, application procedures, deadlines, etc.!

PhD 1: Plant Physiology

PhD 2: Evolutionary Ecology

Departments: Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, SU and Zoology, SU respectively
Place: Stockholm
Start: Spring 2021 / agreements
Application: Deadlines January 15, 2021 and December 15, 2020 respectively

Miljöanalytiker, SLU Artdatabanken

Vill du vara med och utveckla arbetet med limnisk naturvård med ambitionen att uppnå mål om bevarande av biologisk mångfald i sjöar och vattendrag? Artdatabanken söker en miljöanalytiker/akvatisk ekolog för arbete med naturvård, limniska naturtyper och arter.

Miljöanalytiker, SLU Artdatabanken

Arbetsgivare: Artdatabanken, SLU
Plats: Ultuna, Uppsala
Start: Snarast möjligt
Ansökan: Ej senare än 201118

Doktorandtjänster vid Skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi, SLU Uppsala

Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi, SLU, söker doktorander för två olika utlysta tjänster. Se pdf-erna för detaljer (obs de olika deadlines för ansökan)!

Tjänst 1:
"Interaktioner mellan barrträd och skadesvampar"

Tjänst 2:
"Structure and functioning of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities in forest soils"

Institution: Skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi, SLU
Plats: Ultuna, Uppsala
Start: Enligt överenskommelse
Ansökan: Deadlines: 201126 - tjänst 1; 201113 - tjänst 2

MSc thesis on nutrient self-reliance in food and farming in Skåne

Current global agricultural production relies heavily on synthetic fertilisers produced with nutrients mined from finite reserves. This is problematic both on the supply and the sink side. Concerns about nutrient pollution in water bodies and future fertiliser availability emphasise the need for better nutrient management along the entire food chain. This includes comprehensive recovery of nutrients from organic residuals such as food waste, human excreta, and wastewater. The proposed project builds on a novel methodological framework for mapping nutrient flows, multi-scale integrated assessment of nutrient flows in bioregional food systems, in this case in Skåne. Read more about the project in the appended pdf!

MSc degree project: Mapping and managing nutrient flows in the food and farming system in Skåne

Department / company: Energy and Technology, SLU / Sweden Water Research
Place: SLU Uppsala
Start: As agreed upon
Application: Contact the supervisor!

Principal Engineer (80%), Natural History Museum, University of Oslo

University of Oslo is searching for a principal engineer(/research assistant) for a part time (80%), temporary (2 years) position for their new project “Assessing biodiversity in the marine algae belt”. It is financed by the Norwegian ArtsDatabanken at University of Oslo – Natural History Museum.

Principal Engineer in ArtsDatabanken project

Department: Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Place: Oslo, Norway
Start: April 2021
Application: Deadline November 22, 2020

PhD student in Prokaryotic Transcription & Translation, ICM, BMC Uppsala

Are you interested in being part of further elucidating fundamental underlying mechanisms in prokaryotic transcription and translation, and exploit this knowledge for future engineering of bacterial systems? In that case this may be a PhD position of interest to you!

PhD, Prokaryotic Transcription & Translation

Department: ICM, UU
Place: BMC, Uppsala
Start: January 2021 / according to agreement
Application: Deadline November 17, 2020

PhD student position in computational nanoimaging, ICM, BMC Uppsala

Ptychography is a new fast-growing computational imaging technology, as it uses a computer instead of a lens to generate an image. It is an X-ray scanning microscopy technique, which provides structural and chemical information at the nanoscale. It achieves high-resolution by using the full information contained in the light scattered by the sample, rather than being limited by the probe size as usual. But the data analysis required is significantly more complex, which is a barrier to the routine use of ptychography today. Interested in being part of further developing ptychography towards routine usage?

PhD, computational nanoimaging

Department: ICM, UU
Place: BMC, Uppsala
Start: A.s.a.p. / as agreed upon
Application: Deadline December 4, 2020

PhD research fellowship in Arctic Marine Biology, Svalbard, Norway

UNIS is a state-owned limited company with five of Norway’s universities represented on the board. UNIS is located in a modern working environment in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, and is well equipped with both technical and scientific equipment and laboratories.The present PhD position is in the field of marine biology, specifically in marine ecology and biodiversity in shallow coastal waters and fjord regions in Svalbard. The hired applicant is expected to develop a PhD project on biodiversity and resource mapping, e.g. fish, plankton, macroalgae, mainly in Isfjorden close to Longyearbyen. The work includes use of unmanned surface vehicle (USV), biosonar and other assessment methods in Arctic fjords and littoral zones.

PhD Arctic Marine Biology

Department/Company: Arctic Biology/UNIS
Place: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
Start: Spring 2021/By agreement
Application: Deadline December 1, 2020
 

PhD position in Ecology, Linnaeus University, Kalmar

Linnaeus University is seeking a PhD student in Ecology to examine the impact of changes in planktonic microbial communities in response to future climate change scenarios. The student will work with field time-series from the Linnaeus Microbial Observatory (LMO) and conduct experiments on key phytoplankton strains using both microbial and molecular biology tools, in order to gain an understanding of the ecological consequences of future scenarios.

PhD in Ecology

Department: Marine Plankton Ecology and Applications, ECOCHANGE and the Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial model Systems (EEMiS), Linnaeus University
Place: Kalmar
Start: Spring 2021
Application: Deadline November 27, 2020

MolTools, IGP, is looking for master thesis students!

Are you interested in the further development of innovative, ultra-sensitive and precise nucleic acid and protein detection methods and how to apply these in various medical and biological research settings? The MolTools group at IGP are able to offer interesting projects for one or more degree project students during the coming spring semester.

MolTools degree projects

Department: IGP, UU
Place: BMC, Uppsala
Start: Spring 2021
Application: Contact the PI/supervisor!

PhD: "Climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration in mixed tree plantations", SLU Uppsala

Are you searching for a PhD project in which you, together with colleagues at various research organizations across Europe, will contribute to analyze the synergies and trade-offs between the climate change mitigation and adaptation potential of mixed tree plantations? Do you thrive in a multidisciplinary and international research environment? Then this PhD position in the research education subject biology at the Department of Crop Production Ecology, SLU Uppsala should be of interest to you.

PhD, "Climate change mitigation ..."

Department: Department of Crop Production Ecology, SLU
Place: Ultuna campus, Uppsala
Start: Spring 2021
Application: Deadline December 15, 2020

Researcher/technician to work on freshwater benthic invertebrates, NINA, Norway

The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) has an open position for a researcher/technician to work on freshwater benthic invertebrates. Candidates with only MSc are eligible, though a PhD may be a plus. If this sounds interesting to you, please read further in the pdf!

Researcher/technician, freshwater benthic invertebrates

Department: Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
Place: Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Lillehammer, or Tromsø, Norway (optional)
Start: As agreed upon
Application: Deadline November 15, 2020

UU equal opportunities day in English

All UU personnel and students are invited and most welcome to the University’s Equal Opportunities Day in English on November 3! Check the pdf for details!

Equal opportunities day

Organisers: Equal Opportunities Advisory Board and the Advisory Board for Internationalisation
Place: Online Zoom meeting
Time: November 3, kl 13-15

PhD student in Evolutionary Ecology, Stockholm University

Department of Zoology, SU, is inviting applications for a four-year, fully-funded, Ph.D. position in a research group that is focusing on the evolution of life history and plasticity in seasonal environments, using primarily natural populations of butterflies as model organisms. Read further in the pdf!

PhD: Evolutionary ecology of life cycle regulation

Department: Zoology, SU
Place: Stockholm
Start: By agreement / spring 2021
Application: Deadline December 15, 2020

Zoom session: "Winter blues - Swedish culture & climate"

Are you new to the Swedish culture and climate? Is the darkness and/or cold making you a little blue? Join us to learn how to survive the dark winter and meet new people!

Zoom session: "Winter blues - Swedish culture & climate"

Organiser: Division for Internationalisation, UU
When: Tuesday, 3 November at 17:00 – 18:00
Where: Online via Zoom
Registration: Via email, see the pdf!

PhD position in Plant Metacommunities, Oulu, Finland

A 4-year PhD position in Plant Metacommunities is now available at University of Oulu, Finland. This new project will examine the relative roles of spatial heterogeneity, dispersal, biotic interactions (competition and herbivory) and environmental conditions in dictating species occurrences, community composition and diversity in spatially explicit plant assemblages. Dispersal, dormancy, and competition-related functional traits will be combined with information about habitat size and connectivity and environmental filters to improve understanding of internal metacommunity dynamics and coexistence of species in a real-world plant metacommunity.

Doctoral student position in Plant Metacommunities

Department: Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu
Place: Oulu, Finland
Start: February 2021 (and onwards according to agreements)
Application: Deadline November 30, 2020

Bioscience 2020

The theme of the Bioscience 2020 conference is "Research through Innovative Technologies". Check out the programme and the possibility for free registration for this digital event in the appended pdf!

Bioscience 2020: Research through Innovative Technologies

Organiser: Life Science Sweden
Place: Online
Time: November 10
Registration: Online (link in the pdf)

Doktorand i immunologi

Här är en tjänst som Doktorand i immunologi inom projektet "Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) vid COVID-19 och cancer" vid Institutionen för medicinsk cellbiologi. Projektet syftar till att undersöka hur NETs bildas i patienter med svår cancer eller COVID-19 och inbegriper isolering och studier av humana immunceller från patienter samt in vivo–försök i sövda försöksdjur där blodcirkulation i olika organ visualiseras.

NETs vid COVID-19 och cancer

Institution: Medicinsk cellbiologi, UU
Plats: BMC Uppsala
Start: Enligt överenskommelse
Ansökan: Deadline 5 november

Doktorand i beräkningsbiologi, BMC Uppsala

Den här doktorandplatsen är tillgänglig inom programmet beräkningsbiologi och bioinformatik vid ICM. Gruppens forskning fokuserar på datormodellering av proteiner med särskilt fokus på G-proteinkopplade receptorer (GPKRer) och man använder sig av modelleringar för att förstå hur receptorer fungerar på molekylär nivå och utvecklar metoder för att identifiera läkemedelskandidater, ofta i samarbete med experimentella forskargrupper och företag.

Doktorand i beräkningsbiologi

Institution: ICM, UU
Plats: BMC, Uppsala
Start: Snarast eller enl. överenskommelse
Ansökan: Deadline 2 november

PhD in Biology with specialisation in Ecology, SLU

Are you looking for a PhD project where you can study how to improve crop production and ecosystem functioning for smallholder farmers in Africa? Are you interested in agroecology, and would like to explore the links between biodiversity, food webs and resilience? Would you like to collaborate internationally and communicate with stakeholders? Then this PhD position at the Department of Ecology, SLU should be of interest to you.

PhD: "Mixed cropping, ecosystem functioning and ecological resilience in African small-holder systems"

Department: Ecology, SLU
Place: Ultuna campus, Uppsala (with field work in various African countries)
Start: No later than February 1, 2021
Application: Deadline November 15, 2020

Two different master thesis projects at IEG, EBC

Plant Ecology & Evolution, a part of IEG, has a couple of very interesting opportunities for doing your master degree project. Read further about the details of the two projects in the appended pdfs!

Testing the Abundant Center Hypothesis for Neotropical Palms

Investigating Swedish Lake Temperatures Over Time

Department: Plant Ecology & Evolution, IEG, UU
Place: EBC, Uppsala
Start: As agreed upon
Application: Contact the PI/supervisor!

Degree project on Metabolic modeling of differential drug response in glioblastoma, IGP

Interested in helping find better strategies for personalized treatments of glioblastoma (GBM)? In this master thesis project you will be able to use a systems biology approach, specifically employing genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs), to study the molecular mechanisms underlying the highly differentiated responses to proteasome inhibitors that different GBMs show. The project is suitable as a master thesis project for biotechnology students with a bioinformatics-profile, or similar background, that are comfortable with programming in R, Python or MATLAB. GEMs have traditionally been developed for use in MATLAB, so previous experience working with MATLAB is recommended.

Metabolic modeling of differential drug response in glioblastoma

Department: IGP, UU
Place: Rudbeck Lab., Uppsala
Start: According to agreements
Application: Contact the supervisor!

Examensarbete på masternivå om pollenallergi och allergenspecifik immunoterapi, KI

Är du intresserad av ett examensarbete våren 2021 som fokuserar på B-cellsimmunologi vid luftvägsallergi (framför allt hösnuva)? Dessutom med goda chanser att doktorera inom området om du även är intresserad av det i förlängningen. Läs vidare i bilagd pdf om vad projektet går ut på mer i detalj!

 Allergenspecifika B-celler som potentiell biomarkör för immunoterapi vid allergi

Institution: CLINTEC/ÖronNäsaHals, KI
Plats: NKS, BioClinicum, Solna
Start: VT 2021
Ansökan: Kontakta PI/handledare!

Research training or master thesis position, Limnology, EBC

Wastewater based epidemiology allows estimating the levels of SARS-CoV-2 infections in an entire population of a town. In this project you will analyse wastewater samples collected from holiday destinations during summer 2020. The project will allow you to learn techniques of environmental microbiology and wastewater based epidemiology as well as participate in a currently highly relevant interdisciplinary project. Further details can be found in the attached pdf.

Wastewater based epidemiology: Coronavirus infections in holiday destinations during summer 2020

Department: IEG/Limnology, UU
Place: EBC Uppsala
Start: As soon as possible
Application: Contact the PI!

Webinar: Early Drug Development - Strategy and Solution

Interested in drug development? This webinar will give you updates on such topics as key considerations for transitioning small molecules from preclinical through clinical development, practical approaches to improve bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs, advances in in vivo and ex vivo models used in preclinical studies of drug development, and more.

Early Drug Development: Strategy and Solution

Organisers: Catalent in collaboration with Life Science Sweden
Place: Online webinar
Time: November 26, 2020, kl 10-11:30

Single-molecule tracking of protein synthesis in live E. coli cells, BMC, Uppsala

Here are interesting possibilities to do degree projects on the setting up of new experimental systems to follow the dynamics of bacterial protein synthesis inside living E. coli cells, using super-resolved single-molecule tracking approaches. Further details can be found inside the appended pdf!

Single-molecule tracking of protein synthesis in live E. coli cells

Department: ICM, UU
Place: BMC Uppsala
Start: According to agreements
Application: Contact the PI!

Uppsala LIFE 2020

STUNS Life Science will for the second year host Uppsala LIFE, as a means to gather, inspire and show the excellence of life science. Uppsala LIFE offers a forum to inspire and be inspired in order to innovate for sustainable growth.

Innovate for sustainable growth

Organiser: STUNS Life Science
When: October 13th 2020, 12:30-18.00 (at 14:45 Coffe/tea & snack and at 17:00 a light dinner will be served at every location)
Where: Uppsala Castle, Uppsala Science Park, Uppsala Business Park, Green Innovation Park and LIVE streamed (link, to all attendees registered for participation through the web, event will be send one day before the event)

Framtidsmässan 2020

Intresserad av jobb i offentlig sektor? Framtidsmässan 2020 är ett sätt att underlätta för arbetsgivare och studenter att få kontakt. I år arrangeras den digitalt.

Framtidsmässan 2020

Arrangör: Framtidverket i samarbete med flera andra organisationer
Tid: 20 oktober, kl 10-15
Plats: On-line

Soon time for the Utnarm Career Fair & Weeks!

The fair will take place on November 5th, from 9 am to 4 pm, and this year it will be virtual. Furthermore, Oktober 26th - November 5th, the Utnarms event weeks will take place with inspiring events. Check the pdf for details on how to register and take part in various events!

Utnarm 2020

Organisers: Uppsala teknolog- och naturvetarkår / Uppsala Union of Engineering and Science Students
Time: November 5 (fair) / October 26- November 5 (weeks)
Place: Online

PhD (and postdoc) on Global Change Impacts on Northern Animal Communities, University of Oulu, Finland

Declining animal abundance has been repeatedly reported in recent times. This project, conducted at the Research Unit of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, examines if such declines occur also in northern environments by using moths and birds as the study system. Get further details from the pdf!

Global Change Impacts on Northern Animal Communities: From Mechanisms to Ecosystem-Level Implications

Department: Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu
Place: Oulu, Finland
Start: January, 2021
Application: Deadline November 1, 2020

Master thesis project on a rare autoimmune disease, SciLifeLab Stockholm

201117: This position has been filled and is no longer possible to apply for!
Are you interested in doing a degree project on studies of a very special and rare subgroup among autoimmune diseases? A subgroup of IIM, idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, is called anti-synthetase syndrome and is characterized by the presence of autoantibodies targeting aminoacyl tRNA synthetases (aaRSs). Recent findings have revealed that many aaRSs have non-canonical functions, aside from their well-known housekeeping functions during protein synthesis, and several of the aaRSs have been linked to autoimmune diseases, cancer and neurological disorders. If interested in joining the quest for answers of how anti-synthetase syndrome manifests and how possible treatments with better outcomes can be developed, then here is your chance!

Generation and validation of recombinant antibodies to study autoimmune diseases

Departments: Drug Discovery and Development Platform, SciLifeLab, KTH in collaboration with Structural Genomics Consortium, Department of Medicine, KI
Place: Stockholm
Start: According to agreements
Application: Contact the PI! 

Master thesis with Navinci Diagnostics, BMC, Uppsala

Navinci Diagnostics is a Swedish biotechnology startup that is dedicated to pursuing innovative ways for protein analyses in situ. Their goal is to combine the latest technological advances and breakthroughs into kits and services for basic science, translational medicine, and preclinical research applications. The R&D team at Navinci is now seeking one or more master thesis students with a background in protein research. During the time at Navinci, the candidates will develop their degree projects in research and development of tools for in situ analysis of protein interactions.

Master thesis with Navinci Diagnostics

Company: Navinci Diagnostics
Place: Uppsala
Start: As agreed upon
Application: Contact the PI/supervisor!

Degree project in Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biotechnology or similar, BMC

In this project you will use large databases containing structures and energies of molecules with the aim to design simple analytical functions of the atomic coordinates that reproduce these energies. Applications of this work may be in materials modeling or drug design.

Master thesis: Chemistry data mining to discover molecular interactions

Department: ICM, UU
Place: BMC, Uppsala
Start: As agreed upon
Application: Contact the PI!