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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Karolinska Institute in Sweden
Deadline: 30 June 2010
The Network for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases in Central America (NeTropica), and in coordination with the KIRT program, from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, are inviting all Central American Researchers, interested in doing a two year Postdoctoral Research at Karolinska Institution, in the general fields of Infectious Biology, to apply with research projects considered as a priority for the Central American region.
NeTropica has identified active scientists in the field of Infectious Biology located at Karolinska in Sweden that are interested in receiving under their supervision Central American scientists to work in a two years length collaborative project.
NeTropica as the funding program will be covering in the form of a monthly stipend the living expenses and the round trip to Sweden, while the hosting institution will be providing the working facilities to the successful Postdoctoral researchers.
WHICH SUPERVISORS ARE AVAILABLE AT KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET??
| Dr. Teresa Frisan | |
| Email: | teresa.frisan@ki.se |
| General Field of Interest: | Cellular microbiology immunological control of intracellular bacteria, cellular responses to bacterial genotoxins |
| Title of Research: | Characterization of microbial interference with cell survival and cell death |
| Position: | Assoc. Prof |
| Institution: | Dept. Cell and Molecular Biology (CBM), Karolinska Institutet |
| Laboratory Web: | http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=27084&l=en |
| Download details: | NeTropica – Supervisor Frisan |
| Dr. Ute Maria Römling | |
| Email: | Ute.Romling@ki.se |
| General Field of Interest: | Biofilm formation, virulence and commensalism |
| Title of Research: | Cyclic-di-GMP signaling in Salmonella Typhimurium and Escherichia coli |
| Position: | Assoc. Prof |
| Institution: | Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet |
| Laboratory Web: | http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=10961&l=en |
| Download details: | NeTropica – Supervisor Romling |
| Dr. Markus J. Maeurer | |
| Email: | Markus.Maeurer@ki.se |
| General Field of Interest: | Immunology, TB vaccines, markers of immune protection, Immune memory |
| Title of Research: | Markers of Immune protection in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MTB) infection |
| Position: | Assoc. Prof |
| Institution: | Prof. Clinical Immunology, Microbiology and Tumor Cell Biology Center (MTC), Karolinska Institutet and Head of Translational Immunology at the Swedish National Center for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Stockholm, Sweden |
| Laboratory Web: | http://mtc.ki.se/groups/maeurer/index.html |
| Download details: | NeTropica – Supervisor Maeurer |
| Dr. Antonio Barragan | |
| Email: | Antonio.barragan@ki.se |
| General Field of Interest: | Infection Biology, Pathogenesis, Parasitology, Immunology, Imaging |
| Title of Research: | Toxoplasma gondii: Mechanisms for persistence and dissemination in the host |
| Position: | Assoc. Prof |
| Institution: | Dept. of Medicine, Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM) Swedish Inst. for Infectious Disease Control |
| Laboratory Web: | http://researchnetworks.ki.se/converis/area/187 |
| Download details: | NeTropica – Supervisor Barragan |
| Dr. Mikael Rhen | |
| Email: | Mikael.Rhen@ki.se |
| General Field of Interest: | Bacterial intracellular infections, chronic bacterial infections |
| Title of Research: | Dissecting the genetics behind chronic bacterial infections |
| Position: | Assoc. Prof |
| Institution: | Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet |
| Laboratory Web: | www.mtc.ki.se |
| Download details: | NeTropica – Supervisor Rhen |
