STUDENT AND POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS (IMMUNOLOGY)
Standort: Israel
Art: Vollzeit
Firma: Weizmann Institute
Eingetragen am: 2016-05-02
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The Michael Sela Student and Postdoc Program for Excellence in Immunology aims to identify, nurture and uniquely support prospective leaders in the ‘immunological revolution’. Selected outstanding Students and Postdocs will enroll in a prestigious multidisciplinary program, where they will perform research in the most stimulating environment, focusing on the most burning questions in the fields of biology and medicine, including immunogenomics, microbiome study, host pathogen interactions, cancer immunology, personalized genomic approaches and systems immunology. 

Research areas include: Genomic approaches to Immunology research; Microbiome and host interactions in health and disease; Immune cell development (thymus, bone marrow); Immune cell biology (myeloid and lymphoid cell); Immune cell trafficking; Immuno-imaging; Immune tolerance; Host pathogen interactions; Systems immunology; Immunity and cancer; and Novel immune therapeutics.

Support for selected Fellows of the program includes an interdisciplinary and individually tailored course program, generous funding of tuition and fellowship costs, special research funds, and fellowships for travel (which will cover periodic participation in international immunology summer schools, integrated rotations in leading immunology labs in the USA and Europe, and presentations in dedicated program seminars and international meetings).

Applications should be submitted to ayelet.rais@weizmann.ac.il or orel.yaverbaum@weizmann.ac.il specifying the intent to register to the ‘The Michael Sela Student and Postdoc Program for Excellence in
Immunology’
. Applications should include CV, a brief statement of motivation, as well as the emails and phone numbers of two referees. Outstanding students from all academic fields are encouraged to apply, including top-ranked students from physics, computer science, mathematics, engineering and all facets of biology. Applicants will be interviewed by an interdisciplinary interview committee.

For further information, please see http://wws.weizmann.ac.il/immunology/sites/immunology/files/nextgenimmunology.pdfwww.weizmann.ac.il/immunology
Application deadline: June 2016.

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