The African Postdoctoral Training Initiative The African Postdoctoral Training Initiative – a partnership of the African Academy of Sciences, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The African Academy of Sciences (AAS), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are partnering under …
Overview Course dates: 18 – 29 June 2018. Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with HIV, tuberculosis and malaria estimated to cause 10% of all deaths each year. New pathogens continue to emerge, as demonstrated by the SARS epidemic in 2003, the swine flu pandemic in 2009, MERS CoV in …
The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), together with partners from Rhodes University, South Africa, and the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, Germany, is hosting a Short Course on Ecological Modelling in the frame of our new Centre of Excellence in Research, Agricultural advancement, Teaching Excellence and Sustainability (CREATES). The short course …
Lecturer, Pest Management and Biosecurity Duties and Responsibilities This is a 12-month non-tenure-accruing position that will be 100% teaching (College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, available in the Entomology and Nematology Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, at the University of Florida. Duties will include developing a premier educational program related to pest management …
A postdoctoral position is available for a candidate to work on molecular mosquito-arbovirus interactions in the laboratory of Dr. Alexander Franz, Dept. of Veterinary Pathobiology at the University of Missouri (vpbio.missouri.edu). The position is for a collaborative, NIH-funded research project (up to 4 years) to develop antiviral effectors and a gene drive system for the …