Imperial College and MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London, UK
Boris Lenhard's group: http://www.csc.mrc.ac.uk/Research/Groups/EPI/ComputationalRegulatoryGenomics/

On 01 November 2011 I am moving to Imperial College London (joint position with MRC Clinical Sciences Centre), together with part of my current group. We have four vacant positions in London, all on very exciting projects, and I would be very grateful if you could help me spread the word so I could fill them with the best possible people.

The positions are:

Postdoctoral career development fellow (computational biology)
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADD501/career-development-fellow/
Closing date: 25 September 2011

Scientific Programmer (Bioinformatics)
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADD353/scientific-programmer-bioinformatics/
Closing date: 25 September 2011

Postdoctoral researcher in computational genomics, on ZF-HEALTH project (EU FP7)
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADE532/post-doctoral-researcher-in-computational-genomics/
Closing date: 16 October 2011

Senior Research Bioinformatician/Scientific programmer, on ZF-HEALTH project (EU FP7)
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADE836/research-bioinformatician-scientific-programmer/
Closing date: 16 October 2011

Many thanks for your help,

Boris Lenhard

The BOLD Marie Curie Initial Training Network and the ZF-HEALTH Consortium are co-organizing a workshop for graduate students and junior postdoctoral researchers on "Cutting Edge Technologies in Biomedical Research", to be held on May 4-6, 2011 - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

Topics will include: High-throughput screening, 3D imaging, next generation sequencing, database resources, zinc finger nuclease knock-out, research management and ethics.

Speakers: Randall Peterson, Cambridge MA; Stefan Schulz, Karlsruhe; Holger Erfle, Heidelberg; Markus Reischl, Karlsruhe; Michael Boutros, Heidelberg; Jochen Wittbrodt, Heidelberg; Lars Hufnagel, Heidelberg; Clemens Grabher, Karlsruhe; Urban Liebel, Karlsruhe; Ferenc Mueller, Birmingham; Uwe Straehle, Karlsruhe; Boris Lenhard, Bergen; Lars Juhl Jensen, Copenhagen; Keith Joung, Cambridge MA; Tim Frayling, Exeter; Didier Stainier, San Francisco.

General information: There is no registration fee. Accommodation costs will be covered by the workshop organization, but participants are responsible for their own travel expenses. Applications must include a short CV including publication list, a brief statement of research interests and motivation for wanting to participate in this workshop and a supervisor's letter of support. Up to 30 participants will be selected by the ZF-HEALTH Consortium, half of these places are reserved for ZF-HEALTH participants.

The deadline is now extended to March 27, 2011.

Application form (RTF)
Workshop poster (PDF)

The ZF-HEALTH project website, http://zf-health.org, is now publicly accessible.

An archival version of the preceding ZF-MODELS website remains available at http://zf-health.org/zf-models/.

To mark the start of the ZF-HEALTH project, a kick-off meeting was held in Bad Herrenalb in the Black Forest on July 24 – 25, 2010, hosted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The meeting was attended by 22 senior scientists reprenting most of the Consortium partners, and Prof. Monte Westerfield representing the Scientific Advisory Board.

The agenda included a preview of the work to be performed in each of the work packages and discussions on strategies for mutants selection, phenotyping and chemical screens, as well as on intellectual property issues. The Consortium endorsed proposals to hold the first ZF-HEALTH workshop in Karlsruhe and the next project meeting in Zürich, in the summer of 2011.