Faculty of Health and Life Sciences of Oxford Brookes University is offering a PhD studentship for UK/EU or international students. Applicants should be of the highest quality and capable of submitting a PhD thesis within 3 years. As part of the studentship, the successful applicant will be required to undertake up to 6 hours undergraduate teaching per week during semesters without further remuneration. Applicants require a good Honours degree level equivalent to a UK degree BSc (minimum 2.1 or higher). The value of studentship is 13,863 for 2014/15 & fees. The application deadline is 31st July 2014.
Study Subject(s): Studentship is provided within in Faculty of Health and Life Sciences for a research project-‘Golgi biogenesis and the organisation of the ER-Golgi interface’. Applicants will be expected to participate in a course to develop their teaching skills and to be involved in demonstrating, including use of numerical and statistical methods.
Course Level: Studentship is available for undertaking PhD research project at Oxford Brookes University. As part of the studentship, the successful applicant will be required to undertake up to 6 hours undergraduate teaching per week during semesters without further remuneration.
Scholarship Provider: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Oxford Brookes University, UK
Scholarship can be taken at: UK
Eligibility: Eligibility-open worldwide
-Applicants should be of the highest quality and capable of submitting a PhD thesis within 3 years. Applicants require a good Honours degree level equivalent to a UK degree BSc (minimum 2.1 or higher).
Overseas applicants â€"Applicants must have a valid IELTS Test certificate minimum score level 6 in each of the four areas of reading, writing, listening and speaking with overall minimum score 7.0 or relevant undergraduate or masters degree awarded by UK university within the last two years. The IELTS test certificate must not be older than two years. Please note we no longer accept TOEFL certificates.
Scholarship Open for International Students: Students of all countries can apply for this PhD studentship.
Scholarship Description: 
This project will test the hypothesis that in plant cells Golgi bodies are generated de novo at export sites on the ER and that the numbers of Golgi stacks in the cell are regulated by division of export sites and re-absorption of Golgi components along the retrograde pathway back into the ER. Alongside this it will also test the hypothesis that Golgi-associated proteins â€" the golgins â€" are responsible for organising the 3-D structure of the ER-Golgi interface and developing cisternal stacks. The majority of the molecular players at the plant ER exit sites have now been identified and cloned, including key exit site components Sec16 and Sec12, Sar1, the COPII coat components (Sec 23/24, 13/31), the key SNARES and a number of golgins or matrix/putative tethering proteins. All of these clones are available to us and many were made in our lab. The project will involve the use of high end microscopy instrumentation including live cell imaging, optical tweezers and serial block face imaging SEM for 3-D cellular reconstruction.
Number of award(s): One PhD studentship will be available.
Duration of award(s): Studentship is awarded for 3 years.
What does it cover? The value of this PhD studentship is 13,863 for 2014/15 & fees.
Selection Criteria: Not Known
Notification: Not Known
How to Apply: Applications will only be accepted by e-mail to the Research Administrator at the following e-mail address: hlsapplications-at-brookes.ac.uk.
Scholarship Application Deadline: The application deadline is 31st July 2014.
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