Posts

Showing posts with the label British

Followers

Ph.D. position in algal biotechnology || Leipzig University, Faculty of Life Sciences, Institute of Biology, Plant Physiology group of Prof. Severin Sasso, Leipzig, Germany

Image
 Ph.D. position in algal biotechnology PhD position - 3 years (m/f/d) Algal biotechnology Leipzig University, Faculty of Life Sciences, Institute of Biology, Plant Physiology group of Prof. Severin Sasso, Leipzig, Germany Start: 1 July 2024 Deadline: 7 May 2024 The Plant Physiology group at the Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, offers a Ph.D. position (Promotionsstelle) starting from 1 July 2024, subject to formal funding approval. Activities and responsibilities The unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii secretes substantial amounts of glycolate under photorespiratory conditions (Taubert et al., Plant Biotechnol. J. 17, 1538-1546 (2019)). As glycolate is an important industrial chemical, its production in a photosynthetic microorganism opens up the long-term potential to establish a biotechnological industry based on renewable resources. The aim of a new third-party-funded project is to improve glycolate secretion. For this purpose, we want to use physical mutagenesis (e.
Post a Comment
Read more

Scientist of the Week - British Phycologist Joanna M. Kain | Prominent Algologists around the World

Image
 Scientist of the Week August 2021 Prof. Joanna M. Kain     Prof.  Joanna M. Kain was a New Zealand-born British Phycologist. She was born in 1930 to an English mother and a Kiwi father and moved to London at the age of 2 and spent most of her life in the UK. Her father named her Dorothy Kain, which her mother never liked, and thus re-named her as Joanna - after her favorite doll - by this name she was known to the Phycologist world over, Joanna Jones (Kain).      Although her early education was disrupted with moves to 10 different schools, she eventually made it to University College London in 1949, where she became attracted to seaweeds under the influence of  Prof. G E Fogg. Her undergraduate research project was on patterns of intertidal zonation around the Isle of Wight. She was particularly interested in intertidal ecology, but the Institute of Seaweed Research, offered her a research problem to investigate the growth of marine phytoplankton, which she accepted and completed he
Post a Comment
Location: Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI), 9/936 Mridula Nivas, Sivaram Ave, Sivagami Nagar, Medavakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600100, India
Read more

Scientist of the Week Peter Stanley Dixon || British Phycologist | Prominent Algologists around the World

Image
 Peter Stanley Dixon      Peter Stanley Dixon was born in Redcar, England on 29 November 1928. He was the only child of William Stanley and Nellie Dixon. He came from a poor family and completed his entire education with the help of various scholarships. He continued his education at the University of Manchester from where he received a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. Here he developed a strong foundation in what was then widely referred to as cryptogamic botany. However, upon completing his B.Sc., he turned his attention towards a group of organisms (Red Algae), that would dominate the rest of his life. His MSc thesis was on cytology and reproduction in freshwater red alga Lemanea . This has set the stage for further graduate work under the able mentorship of Kathleen M. Drew-Baker. He chooses to work on Gelidium and its relatives, a red algal group notorious for its taxonomic difficulty.            In 1954 he began his academic career by assuming the position of Assistant Lecturer at the
1 comment
Location: Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI), 9/936 Mridula Nivas, Sivaram Ave, Sivagami Nagar, Medavakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600100, India
Read more

Dr Mary Winifred Parke (1908-1989) | British Phycologist | Prominent Algologists around the World

Image
     Dr Mary Winifred Parke was the guiding force of British Phycology from 1950-70, was born on  23 March 1908 at Liverpool (England). She came under the influence of Dr. Margery Knight and started studying marine algae from 1930 onwards. Both were extremely hard workers and wrote 'Manx Algae' in 1931. This was not just the flora of Port Erin but the account of distribution, life-history, ecology, and developmental biology, all these branches were in their infancy at that time in phycological research.        Her richest contribution "culture of flagellates of phycoplanktons' came because of Prof. Orton who was working on artificial rearing of oysters. He entrusted Mary with isolating and culturing the best suitable food source. Her efforts succeeded in isolating and developing six organisms one of which Isochrysis galbana later became the most important food source in mariculture.       Mary was appointed as Botanist at Plymouth Laboratory in 1947. She painstakingly
Post a Comment
Location: Annakkili Amma Research Institute (AARI), 9/936 Mridula Nivas, Sivaram Ave, Sivagami Nagar, Medavakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600100, India
Read more

Popular posts from this blog

12 Postdoctoral Fellowships at University of Sydney, Australia

12 Postdoctoral Fellowships at University of Sydney, Australia Are you holding PhD degree and looking for Postdoctoral Fellowships? University of Sydney, Australia invites multiple online application for Postdoctoral Fellowships in various research areas. Candidates interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. 1. Postdoctoral Position  Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship: We have an exciting opportunity for an emerging talent in biomedical engineering to join the School of Health Sciences, in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. You will join our TB-PET research team to drive innovation in dynamic PET data analysis, specialising in Tracer Kinetic Modelling. The project has a national and international emphasis collaborating with researchers at UNSW in Sydney and the King’s College London. Application Deadline:   Open Until Filled More Details 2. Postdoctoral Position  Summary
Read more

22 Fully Funded PhD Programs at Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

 22 Fully Funded PhD Programs at Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden  Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas. Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.  1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing Science with focus on Software Security Summary of PhD Program: The project is funded by WASP. Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) is Sweden’s largest individual research program ever, a major national initiative for strategically motivated basic research, education and faculty recruitment. The program addresses research on artificial intelligence and autonomous sys
Read more

Doctoral student in Biology || Lund University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology || Ph.D position in Biology

 Doctoral student in Biology Lund University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has around 46 000 students and more than 8 000 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition. Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset. Biology is the broad subject about all living things. It encompasses everything from processes at the molecular and cellular level to global processes at ecosystem level. The subject is divided into a range of sub-disciplines and specialisations. The PhD programme at the Department of Biology includes many of these specialisations, from molecular biology to applied ecology, from viruses and individual cells to evolutionary biology and global biodiversity.
Read more