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Apply by subbmitting a letter of interest to here:. https://www.whiterose-mechanisticbiology-d.

The position is open to all students, world wide. Sheffield is Very affordable compared to similar UK cities. Largest cluster of theatres outside London, more brewerys per head than anywhere else in the world, and 1/3 inside the national park. Be 20 minutes away from this:

You'll find a friendly and supportive environment, embedded in a cluster of several labs tackling problems in RNA biology and nucleic acid research.

Our lab is a diverse group of people who like to do "analysis-driven" biology, focusing on post-transcriptional gene regulation using a mixture of functional genomics and molecular and computational biology.

However the chosen students will likely exhibit a strong motivation to learn the areas that they have less experience in.

Would suit students from a wide range of biological, statistical and computational backgrounds. Previous members have arrived with little or no computational experience and left for jobs in software developement. Or come from CS and gone on to postdocs in biology.

We will using genome wide mesaurement of the effect of variation in miRNA binding sites to address when vairation causes changes in regulation and when it doesn't. Mixed wetlab, bioinformatics and statistics project.

Come work with us! I have a PhD position available to help understand which mutations in the non-coding parts of coding transcripts have functional consequences in Stem Cells. #phdjobs #Bioinformatics #genomics #miRNA .

Instead they are paid by dedicated doctoral training programme grants, and PIs compete with other PIs at the institutions for students from the programme. Thus a student is an income to a lab, not a cost.

UK Prespective:.The magnitude of the costs are the same:.$22k stipend, .$27k tution, .$20k research costs etc. But we are not allowed to pay those costs from most research grants. .

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A lots of the unhappiness that (middle class, white male) academics have with the current academia is that we keep insisting on doing what think the job should be, rather than what the people that draw up our contracts and pay our salaries tell us it is.

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Sr management acknowledging that improving wellbeing means fixing workload is to be welcomed. But why do they always believe that excessive workload is all generated by "meetings" and "processes" rather than that there is not enough staff for the amount of teaching and research.

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