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WIMM Prize PhD Studentships 2016

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4 Year WIMM Prize PhD Studentships - H815025

The MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) has fully funded 4-year Prize PhD (DPhil) studentships available to start in October 2016.  These studentships are open to outstanding students of any nationality.
Interviews will be held on the 25 and 26 January 2016.  All shortlisted applicants will be invited to visit the Institute on one of these dates. This will be for the whole day and will comprise a 30 minute interview (which will include a 5 minute presentation on your research to date), a tour of the WIMM and meeting potential supervisors.  Overseas candidate interviews will be conducted via Skype.
Participating supervisors and projects are listed below.
How to apply:
All applications must be made using the University's online application form
Please read the  University of Oxford Graduate application guide
Deadline for applications is 12 Noon (UK time) on Friday, 8 January 2016
Specific details required in the application form:
  • Programme - “DPhil in Medical Sciences”
  • Proposed Field and Title of Research: Please list up to 3 project numbers from the list below.
  • Supervisor:  List the relevant project supervisors.  Applicants are encouraged to contact prospective supervisors.
  • Statement of Purpose/Research Proposal: All applicants are to submit a personal statement with their application (500 words max; any statements exceeding this limit will not be considered). A research proposal is not required. 
  • Applying for a Departmental Scholarship: Please add here “WIMM H815025”   --  IMPORTANT if also applying for the RDM Scholars Programme please also put “RDM SCHOLARS 16”Do not make a separate application for each scholarship/studentship.
Further Information:
  • Studentships are fully funded for 4 years and include a stipend of £18,000pa, University and College fees.
  • There is no rotation in the first year.
  • A CV should be uploaded which includes your final year school results and full details of your research experience.
  • You will need to ensure that your referees are willing and able to write a reference for you. We must receive your references no later than the application deadline. It is your responsibility to ensure that your references are submitted on time.
  • You will need to pay the application fee for each programme to which you make an application. The fee is currently £60 and can be paid by credit/debit card through the University's online shop. If you do not have access to a bank account and are unable to pay by card, you should contact Graduate Admissions and Funding for guidance as soon as you have decided to apply.
Eligibility
Information on eligibility can be found at the DPhil in Medical Science information page.
Further information/enquiries.
Please contact Mrs Liz Cloke, WIMM Student Co-ordinator, liz.cloke@imm.ox.ac.uk or Tel:  +44 (0) 1865 222336.

 Participating supervisors and projects

Project No Supervisor Project
 W01 Prof Ahmed Ahmed Role of Stem Cells in Tumour Initiation
 W02 Prof David Beeson Genome engineering to defining molecular mechanisms of disease at the neuromuscular synapse for novel mutations
 W03 Prof Sir Walter Bodmer Differentiation control in colorectal canceR and its uses for evaluation of drug responses 
 W04 Prof Marella de Bruijn Elucidating the birth of blood stem cells
 W05 Prof Veroncia Buckle, Dr Christian Babbs and Prof Irene Roberts Pathogenesis of Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anaemia Type 1
 W06 Prof  Zameel Cader Molecular signatures and computational biology of patient stem cell derived dementia models
 W07 Prof Simon Davis Super-resolution imaging of early signaling in T cells
 W08 Prof Simon Davis, Prof Richard Cornall and Dr Consuelo Anzilotti New combinations of immune-checkpoint inhibitors to treat cancer
 W09 Prof Hal Drakesmith Hepcidin regulation and immunity
 W10 Prof Christian Eggeling and Prof Enzo Cerundolo Analysis of lipid-antigen assisted T-cell activation using live-cell super-resolution (STED) microscopy
 W11 Prof Christian Eggeling and Prof Simon Davis Analysis of lipid and lipid-anchored protein organization at the T-cell surface using novel super-resolution (STED) microscopy
 W12 Dr Marco Fritzsche and Prof Christian Eggeling Actin cytoskeleton-mediated force generation during T-cell activation investigated by advanced (super-resolution) microscopy
 W13 Prof Lars Fugger Functional genetics in multiple sclerosis: determining the translational potential
 W14 Prof Tudor Fulga In Vivo interrogation of Post-Transcriptional Regulatory networks by Multiplex CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Engineering
 W15 Prof Richard Gibbons and Prof Doug Higgs Chromatin remodeling and genome stability
 W16 Prof Anne Goriely and Prof Andrew Wilkie Selfish Selection in the Human Testis
 W17 Prof Ling-Pei Ho How monocyte and monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) modulate lung fibrosis
 W18 Prof Georg Holländer The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Thymus Development and Central T cell Tolerance Induction
 W19 Prof David Jackson Mechanisms of Leucocyte Recruitment in inflamed tissues via the novel LYVE-1 hyaluronan axis
 W20 Prof Peter McHugh Understanding a key effector of replication-coupled DNA repair
 W21 Prof Adam Mead Single Cell Mutation and Transcriptome analysis of stem cells in myeloid malignancies
 W22 Prof Tom Milne and Prof Christian Eggeling Analyzing aberrant epigenetic changes in leukemia cells
 W23 Prof Claus Nerlov and Prof Sten Eirik Jacobsen The role of haematopoetic stem cell heterogeneity in haematopoietic emergency responses
 W24 Prof Claus Nerlov and Prof Paresh Vyas Modeling the sequential acquisition of oncogenic mutations in acute myeloid leukemia
 W25 Dr Wojciech Niedzwiedz  Deciphering the regulation of transcription and replication in genome stability and chromatin organisation
 W26 Dr Wojciech Niedzwiedz Deciphering the regulatory mechanism of DNA rerpair by homologous recombination
 W27 Prof Graham Ogg Role of lipid-specific T cells in human inflammation and translational development of new therapies to treat allergic disease
 W28 Prof Graham Ogg Role of innate Lymphoid Cells in skin inflammation
 W29 Prof Roger Patient Programming blood stem cells during embryonic development
 W30 Prof Roger Patient Cardiac regeneration in zebrafish
 W31 Prof Catherine Porcher Transcriptional and epigenetic control of blood stem cell development
 W32 Prof Jan Rehwinkel The immune systems Trojan horse: studying the role of viruses in cell-to-cell communication
 W33 Prof Tatjana Sauka-Spengler Tackling Chromatin Dynamics during Neural Specification
 W34 Prof Alison Simmons The function of the NLR NOD2 in Myeloid Cells
 W35 Prof Alison Simmons The function of stromal cells in intestinal, inflammation or fibrosis
 W36 Prof Katja Simon and Prof Alison Simmons Autophagy in Stem Cells
 W37 Prof Paresh Vyas Characterisation of aberrant self-renewal pathways in Leukaemic Stem Cells in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML)
 W38 Prof Paresh Vyas Niche determinants required for leukaemic and normal stem cell function
 W39 Prof Andrew Wilkie The role of Zic1 in cranial suture development

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