PhD projects: biostatistics, bioinformatics and... - Allstat

PhD Projects for October 2010 Three and four year programmes on offer The MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University School of Medicine is recruiting for both 3 and 4 year PhD programmes. We currently have 23 registered PhD students and have an excellent track record of successful postgraduate researchers. The Centre's research is organised around the following major themes: - Psychosis and Major Affective Disorders - schizophrenia, mood disorder; - Neurodegenerative Disorders - Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, PSP, Parkinson's Disease, neuromuscular disorders; - Developmental Disorders - dyslexia, ADHD, childhood depression, pre-natal environmental influences on behaviour and Mouse Behavioural Genetics - X chromosome genes and behaviour, sexually dimorphic behaviours and behavioural epigenetics. Research in all these areas is underpinned by the Bioinformatics Biostatistics Unit and by work on functional genomics. The four year programme includes a first year with an intensive tutorial-based three month introduction followed by research laboratory rotations. In years 2-4 students undertake a single research project of their choice. The three year programme offers a series of PhD projects from Centre supervisors: these are available at http://www.cf.ac.uk/medic.... Application procedure Prospective students should have a first degree with at least a 2.1 or higher academic qualifications in a subject appropriate to the project they wish to undertake. Applications should be made to nmh-applications@cf.ac.uk with a CV including the names of two academic referees and a covering letter indicating which programme or projects they are interested in and why by 31st January 2010. For further information: Ms Caroline Frame, Email: Frameca@cf.ac.uk Telephone: 029 207 43241 Dr Lesley Jones, Email: JonesL1@cf.ac.uk Telephone: 029 206 87054 Projects and Supervisors - Inferring disease biology from genome-wide... more... - Bob O'Hara from email