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see

http://www.rzss.org.uk/job-vacancies/research-scientist-conservation-genetics

The role

An opportunity has arisen for a committed researcher to join the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland WildGenes lab. Reporting to the Conservation Programme Manager – WildGenes in our Conservation team, the successful candidate will initiate, implement and disseminate conservation genetics projects in the WildGenes laboratory. Duties include assisting with the project management and analysis of genetic data for a diverse portfolio of conservation genetic projects.

This is a full-time permanent position where the working hours are 37.5 hours per week.

Closing date: Wednesday 2nd January 2019.

Dear all,

My name is Sara Peixoto, I am a postgraduate student from Portugal and I will do an internship at University of Sheffield (Molecular Ecology Lab) next year (2019), from January to July. I’m looking for a cheap place to stay near the university for that period – maximum £250 including bills – so if you have a room available or know someone who has, please contact me: up201602771@fc.up.pt. Ideally I am looking for a room from January 12 until the end of June please.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Sara

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/bms/research/seminars

Seminars are held on Mondays at 12.00 noon (unless stated) in the Conference Room (room A225), A Floor, Alfred Denny building.

Monday 19th November 2018

Dr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon

“How useful is deep learning in the study of animal behavior?”

Host: Prof Mikko Juusola

https://academicpositions.com/ad/university-of-gothenburg/2018/postdoc-marine-population-genomics/120708

Seven month post available here in Sheffield, working on our rotifer experimental evolution project

The reference number is UOS020788 closing on the 15 November 2018.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs

Roger

We are delighted to invite you to attend a PacBio SMRT sequencing seminar, to be held on Thursday 25th October, 10.30am-2pm in the BMS Conference Room, Alfred Denny Building.

There will be talks from users of Sheffield’s PacBio Sequel System, which is based in the P3 centre and Molecular Ecology Laboratory in the Department of Animal & Plant Sciences. There will also be a presentation from PacBio technical staff, and the opportunity to meet with them afterwards to discuss your long-read sequencing projects.

The seminar is free and coffee and lunch will be provided. Please register at: http://bit.ly/2p5sE61 to save your spot.

Ivan Jezkova will be in Sheffield from 30. 10. to 16. 11. 2018 to visit the Butlin/Beckerman rotifer group. If you could help her with a room, please email her on ivana.jezkova@uv.es

Thanks

Roger

We are looking for a Data Analyst to join our @NERCBAF team and support a wide range of exciting studies here in @SheffieldAPS. For more details see https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BMK063/research-associate Deadline to apply is 1st Oct.

The course programme for the remainder of 2018 and beginning of 2019 has been finalised and with exception of Software Carpentry all the following courses are available for booking:-

September 20th – Introduction to R

November 6th/7th – Introduction to identifying and characterising variants from NGS data

November 26th /27th – Software Carpentry

December 17th – Introduction to RNA-seq

January 14/15th – Introduction to the analysis of RNA-seq data in R

Booking onto the courses is available from the University’s onlinestore page

https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-medicine-dentistry-and-health/neuroscience

More information about the content of each course can be found on our website.

http://sbc.shef.ac.uk//training/