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3-year doctoral position in bioinformatics: Prediction of bacterial operons dedicated to glycan breakdown in marine Gammaproteobacteria for the discovery of novel CAZyme families (Funded by A*Midex) Aix-Marseille Université, France

3-year doctoral position in bioinformatics: Prediction of bacterial operons dedicated to glycan breakdown in marine Gammaproteobacteria for the discovery of novel CAZyme families (Funded by A*Midex) Aix-Marseille Université, France Location: Marseille, PROVENCE ALPES COTE D AZUR Job Type: FullTime Deadline: 31 Jul 2024 Job Information Organisation/Company Aix-Marseille Université Research Field Biological sciences » Biology Biological sciences » Other Computer science » Programming Computer science » Other Medical sciences » Other Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Country France Application Deadline 31 Jul 2024 - 21:59 (UTC) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 38 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by an EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No Offer Description RESEARCHER PROFILE:  PhD/ R1: First stage Researcher                   RESEARCH FIELD(S) AND DISCIPLINE

Scientist of the Week Prof. Mandayam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar, Indian Phycologists | Prominent Algologists around the World

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            Prof. MOP Iyengar                Prof. Mandayam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar was born in Madras (now Chennai) on December 15, 1886, to Shree M O Alasingaracharya and Mrs. Alamelu Ammal. He graduated from Presidency College in 1906, while completed his post-graduation degree in 1909. No wonder the family tradition and background of leading solicitors, educationalists,s and philosophers encouraged him to go for higher studies. He served for more than a decade from 1920 at Presidency college, teaching and organizing research in Botany and more particularly in Algology. Before that, he briefly served at Government Museum (Natural History) and engaged in Teachers Training in Natural Science. He left for London and finished his Ph.D. in 1932 under none other than Prof. Felix Eugen Fritsch. On his return, he became Professor of Botany at Madras University - a position he occupied until his retirement in 1944. Nevertheless, retirement did not impede his research, he continued to be

Prof. Isabella Aiona Abbott Hawai'ian Phycologist | Prominent Algologists around the World | Scientist of the Week

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  Prof. Isabella Aiona Abbott Prof. Isabella Aiona Abbott, whose native Hawai'ian name was Isabella Kauakea (White Rain of Hana) Yau Yung Aiona was born on June 20, 1919. Her father was ethnically Chinese while her mother was a Native Hawaiian. Abbott was the only girl and second youngest in a family of eight siblings. She received her undergraduate degree in botany at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in 1941, a master's degree in botany from the University of Michigan in 1942, and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950. In that era, women with PhDs were scarce and faculty positions for them were even scarcer.  She was the first Native Hawai’ian woman to earn a Ph.D. in science.  She married a zoologist Donald Putnam Abbott, who had been a fellow student at the University of Hawaii as well as Berkeley. The couple moved to Pacific Grove, California where her husband taught at the Hopkins Marine Station run by Stanford University.  For the first f

Prof. Paul Claude Silva American Phycologists | Prominent Algologists around the World | Scientist of the Week

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  Prof. Paul Claude Silva      Prof. Paul Claude Silva, with whom, I had a brief interaction during 2010 when I came across a specimen of Codium collected from one of the islands of Gulf of Kutch. It was so different from the rest of the species, I encountered before, in its gross morphology and anatomy as well, that I thought of describing it as new species. However, before that, I just wanted to confirm, if my conclusion of it being new species is true or not. And who could have been better than Prof. Paul Silva - a leading authority on Codium - to confirm. To my great surprise, Prof. Silva replied instantly to my email and send me some literature on similar species described before offering me help to prepare a manuscript, unfortunately, which never happened and the species still remained undescribed. Paul was born in San Diego, California, USA, on 31 October 1922. After graduation, and a one-year post-doctoral fellowship investigating sewage treatment-pond algae, Paul was hired

Scientist of the Week Setchell et Gardner American Phycologists | Prominent Algologists around the World

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  W. A. Setchell N. L. Gardner      I am sure everyone who is into the business of identifying seaweeds must have come across the names, Setchell et Gardner. At least when I described Ulva taeniata from Malvan in 2007, I was curious to know more about these two amazing Phycologists. They together described more than 670 species and infraspecific taxa from at least 110 genera, 40 of which were new to science. Thus the pair remembered for their joint legacy. They were of the same age, had the same interest, and spent their phycological career at the Department of Botany and Herbarium of the University of California at Berkeley. The careers of two men were inextricable; their talents and abilities were in part congruent and in part complementary.  William Albert Setchell was born in Norwich, Connecticut on April 15, 1864, into a family that had deep roots in New England. He had an early interest in natural history in particular Botany. Apart from marine algae, he was prolific in other

Scientist of the Week Prof M.S. Balakrishnan (1917-1990) Indian Phycologist | Prominent Algologists around the World

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M.S. Balakrishnan (1917-1990) (Courtesy: B.B.Chaugule: in Seaweed Research and Utilization 13(1), July 1990) Prof. Balakrishnan was born on 10th February 1917 at Madras. His parents were both active in the struggle for national freedom. His father gave up a good position in Government service to join the civil disobedience movement. His mother was an austere person, a Gandhian, and an eminent writer in Tamil. Prof. Balakrishnan had his education in Madras and took his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Botany from Presidency College, Madras. He later joined the University Botany Laboratory, Chepauk, Madras to work for his M.Sc. degree under the guidance of the late Prof. M.O.P.Iyengar, Father of Indian Algology. After taking his M.Sc. degree, he joined the Department of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India as a sub-editor. Soon the academically bent Prof. Balakrishnan left this job and took up a Research Fellowship at the Agricultural College and Research Institute, Coimbatore. Afte

Dr. Josephine Tilden (1869-1957) American Phycologist | Prominent Algologists around the World | Scientist of the Week

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Scientist of the Week Dr. Josephine Tilden: Scientist of the week Dr. Josephine Tilden (24 March 1869 to15 May 1957) was one of the most enthusiastic and dedicated phycologist; indefatigable as a teacher, researcher, and bibliographer. She was born on March 24, 1869, in Davenport, Iowa, US. Tilden believed strongly in the equality of women and despite many obstacles never let her gender impede her from pursuing her remarkable career. Prof. Conway MacMillan introduced her to the world of algae at the University of Minnesota.  In 1894 she prepared and distributed the first 'Century  (100 species) of her American Algae, an exsiccate that eventually included 32,500 specimens of both freshwater and marine taxa. Tilden had an uncanny skill for finding superb collecting sites. Perhaps the most famous of her sites is Botanical Beach, an area located near Port Renfrew. Here she established the world-famous 'Minnesota Seaside Station' where she conducted Marine biology courses durin

A New species of red alga has been named after our Senior Scientist Prof. B. B. Chaugule | Kumanoa chaugulei new species of red algae from Kerala

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 Dear researchers and Students,     This article introduces Kumanoa chaugulei Jayalakshmi & John, 2021... Kumanoa chaugulei  Jayalakshmi & John from Kerala (Phycologia)     Kumanoa chaugulei is a newly described freshwater red algae from Kerala, India. This article is published in Phycologia Journal (17th, June 2021). The alga was collected from Idamalayar, a major tributary of Periyar River, Kerala, India, and described based on morphology and molecular phylogeny.  This is the first study from India on Batrachospermacea e with Molecular phylogeny data. In the introduction, the authors have discussed Freshwater red algae and Batrachospermales members and on previous reports. In materials and methods the collection site with GPS, morphology, and molecular data methods. The result part has Morphology and molecular data. Maximum-likelihood (ML) tree has been generated using the rbcL and COI-5P concatenated sequence data. Morphological data are given as the description of the n

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