Job announcement
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Vetmeduni Vienna

Application deadline: 30.10.2009
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Vetmeduni Vienna invites applications for up to 12 post doctoral fellowships as early career
opportunities for developing outstanding research programs.
Starting Jan 2010 the university will award each fellowship a 4 year funding.
Salary is € 42.000,- (before tax) research expense € 10.000,- per year.
No teaching or administrative duties are associated with these appointments, however
candidates are expected to apply for additional research funding.
Applications in the following areas are invited.
(For details please use link: http://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/postdoc/)

The PostDoc (PD) training program of the Vetmeduni Vienna aims to provide a state of the art training for PDs, which takes advantage of the diversity of clinical and non-clinical research expertise of the Vetmeduni Vienna. In particular the combination of clinical and non-clinical research is viewed as an excellent career opportunity of the PDs.

Code Research Area
Principal Investigators

PD0509 Polyunsaturated fatty acids/cardiac function/metabolism 
Walter Arnold, Thomas Ruf

PD0809 Comparative medicine/tumorgenesis, inflammation
Mathias Müller, Hartmut Beug

PD1209 Interaction of Histomonas meleagridis with other microorganisms 
Michael Hess

PD1509 Motility mutants of Mycoplasma gallisepticum 
Michael Szostak, Renate Rosengarten

PD1709 Population Genetics of epigenetic Programming in Drosophila
Christian Schlötterer, Thomas Flatt

PD2109 Role of TR cells in PRRSV infected swine 
Armin Saalmüller

PD0109 Fgf-23 and Klotho - mineral homeostasis - aging 
Reinhold Erben

PD0709 Biomodelling of Listeriosis in Mice 
Mathias Müller

PD0909 Animal welfare and product quality
Susanne Waiblinger

PD1909 Infectivity spectrum of MMTV 
Stanislav Indik, Walter Günzburg

PD2209 Dynamics of mosquito born viral zoonoses
Franz Rubel 

PD2309 Ecology of Food-borne pathogens
Martin Wagner

Closing date for proposals: Oct 30th 2009

A PhD degree in Life Sciences or Dr.med.vet. or Dr.med.degree is required.

Application should contain: full CV, publication list, application letter, 2 letters of recommendation and should be submitted electronically to: rektorat@vetmeduni.ac.at (Also for informal enquiries.)

Vetmeduni Vienna is committed to the recruitment and advancement of female scientists.
Appointments will be subjected to a pre employment screening.