25 Aug, 2008: We have a NSF funded research position available immediately to study functional modularity in cellular networks with particular reference to how dynamic properties relate to modularity. Salary in the region of 40K+ plus benefits. Contact hsauro@u.washington.edu for further information.
Oct. 27th 2008:
Applications are invited for a post doctoral position at the Systems and Synthetic Biology group in the University of Washington, Seattle. The offer is for an NIH funded position for four years to work in the following areas:
1) In collaboration with the Glazier group in Indiana, explore ways in which standards such as SBML or CellML can be used to describe multicellular systems.Communication with the exiting standards community is critical to this effort.
2) Develop a C/C++ based software library for ODE simulation (possibly based on SOSLib) that uses SBML (via libSBML) and collaborate with the compucell3d group in Indiana to integrate this library into their software to enable cellular network simulation in multicellular models.
3) Investigate ways to run multicellular systems at high efficiency on multicore systems.
4) Enhance existing or develop new visualization tools (particularly cell network visualizers) that can be added as plugins to the compucell3D framework.
5) Work with the Indiana group to develop multicellular models or enhance the general modeling environment.
The Indiana group already has an advanced modeling system for multicellular systems based on the Potts model. This approach can model different cell-types in the same model as well as movement of cells in a tissue or organ containing 1000s of cells. This approach is ideally suited to modeling systems such as development or wound healing. However the model does not incorporate any internal cellular dynamics in the individual cells. One of the aims of this project is to enhance the modeling capacity by incorporating cellular network modeling.
See the press release for more general information:
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/9038.html
This project is a joint effort between UW and the University of Indiana with James Glazier as PI.
Salary is based on the NIH post-doctoral pay scale but the exact salary point will depend on the applicant's experience. The successful applicant will be based in Seattle.
Please send applications, including at least two
references, as a single PDF file to hsauro@u.washington.edu, or
via surface mail to:
Dr. Herbert Sauro
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, 98195
