<div dir="ltr"><b style="font-size:12.8px">PhD position on "cryogenic processing of retinal tissue using computational modelling"</b><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">A PhD student position is available at </span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">the Institute of Genetic Medicine at </span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Newcastle University </span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(<a class="gmail-m_-8795243519125754925m_-7945558579362537070m_-5487679513374906180gmail-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/igm/" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ac.uk/igm/</a>)</span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">. Dr Roman Bauer, </span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Prof. Lyle Armstrong and Dr Evelyne Sernagor are looking for a highly motivated student with an interest </span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">in</span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">studying and computationally modelling the freezing and thawing</span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> of retinal tissue.</span></font><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The successful candidate will have (or be in the process of obtaining) a M</span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">a</span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">sters degree </span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">in neuroinformatics, computer science, engineering, computational biology or a related discipline. Basic experience in a programming language such as Java, C++ or Python is a requirement. The student position</span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> will involve computational modeling as well as experimental work.</span></font><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">A </span></font><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backgroun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Roman Bauer, Ph.D.
MRC Research Fellow
Institute of Neuroscience
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
tel: <a href="tel:+44%20191%20208%205685" value="+441912085685" target="_blank">+44 (0) 191 208 5685</a> </font></pre></div></font></span></div>