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How a Father’s Diet Can Shape His Child’s Health: A Surprising Discovery
Have you ever wondered how a father’s diet might influence the health of his future children?
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How a Father’s Diet Can Shape His Child’s Health: A Surprising Discovery
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05 Postdoctoral Fellowships
37 Research Assistant Jobs
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How a Father’s Diet Can Shape His Child’s Health: A Surprising Discovery
Have you ever wondered how a father’s diet might influence the health of his future children? Recent research led by Dr. Raffaele Teperino at Helmholtz Munich has uncovered some fascinating and surprising answers.
Dr. Teperino and his team delved deep into this mystery using data from over 3,000 families as part of the LIFE Child cohort. They discovered that a father’s weight and diet before conception could influence his children’s weight and their risk of metabolic diseases, like diabetes and obesity. This effect was found to be independent of the mother’s health, genetics, or environmental conditions.
Explore Funded PhD Programs
1. Fully Funded PhD in Biology at Duke University
Duke University offers a Fully Funded PhD in Biology through its renowned Graduate Program in Biology, providing opportunities for aspiring scientists to engage in cutting-edge research in a diverse and collaborative environment. The program focuses on a variety of biological disciplines, including ecology, evolutionary biology, cell and molecular biology, neurobiology, genetics, and biophysics, among others. The PhD program is fully funded, covering tuition, health insurance, and a generous living stipend. For the first year, incoming students receive a fellowship with no service requirement, providing a stipend of $25,245 for 9 months. An additional summer fellowship, also with no service requirement, is provided for the first two years. The program also covers full tuition, student health fees, the transcript fee, and the Duke Health Insurance Plan premium. Read More
2. Three PhD positions for the ERC project, ‘Making Sense of Communities of Arms’
Are you interested in how social collectives and political communities are brought together by firearms? Are you particularly interested in how these communities (re)produce power structures through their everyday practices? Would you like to experiment with multisensorial methods? Do you have a background in cultural anthropology or a related discipline and ethnographic research experience in Brazil, South Africa or Germany? If you would like to be part of a dynamic team carrying out research on communities of arms, one of these positions may be right for you. Read More
3. PhD student in computer architecture
This PhD position is aimed at exploring computer architecture solutions for processing-in-memory acceleration of deep learning applications. These applications are extremely important for many applications such as autonomous vehicles, where there are serious performance demands combined with strict power and energy budgets. Novel extremely efficient devices need to be explored. Read More
4. PhD fellowship in Drug Delivery: Enabling oral delivery of macromolecules through formulation and manufacturing process design
The Department of Pharmacy is offering a three-year PhD fellowship in the Center for Biopharmaceuticals and Biobarriers in Drug Delivery (BioDelivery). The PhD fellowship is in collaboration with an industrial partner. The successful applicant will be a member of the Drug Delivery and Biophysics of Biopharmaceuticals group and will have the opportunities for cross-disciplinary research in collaboration with internal and external collaborators. Read More
Explore Postdoctoral Jobs
1. Postdoctoral Associate position available in the Lammerding Lab
A postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Lammerding laboratory to investigate how migration through confined spaces, for example, in the context of cancer metastasis or immune cell infiltration, can modulate chromatin organization, gene expression, and other cellular functions. The research builds on previous discoveries in the Lammerding lab that found that nuclear envelope proteins play crucial roles in the ability of cells to respond to mechanical stimuli (Lammerding et al. J Clin Invest 2004; Ho et al. Nature 2013; Kalukula et al. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2022) and that cell migration through confined spaces results in nuclear envelope rupture, DNA damage, and chromatin modification (Denais et al. Science 2016; Shah et al. Current Biol 2021; Hsia et al. iScience 2022). Read More
2. Two postdoctoral positions in the topic of massive galaxy evolution
Applications are invited for two postdoctoral positions in the study of galaxy formation and evolution at the Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. The successful candidates will join the research group of Prof. Kirsten K. Knudsen. The research is on high-redshift starburst/AGN and galaxy evolution with focus on observational studies primarily in the mm-wave/radio wavelength range as well as modelling of source detection. The scientific aim is towards understanding the mechanisms that drive the evolution of massive galaxies. The starting data is flexible, though preferably August 2025. Read More
3. Postdoctoral Associate in Chemistry /Proteomics /Lipidomics
A Post-doctoral Associate position in proteomics is available for a chemist/chemical biologist to work on a research project, “Biological Functions of Glycolipids,” led by Dr. Zhongwu Guo in the Department of Chemistry. This position in our group works on: (1) sequencing and proteomics studies to reveal how DNA damages contribute to cancer and aging-related diseases, and (2) proteomics and lipidomics studies to disclose how GSLs correlate with aging related diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. Read More
4. Dean’s Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow
This program pairs a postdoctoral fellow with an experienced faculty mentor who has active national research funding, shares a research interest and is able to supervise the fellow’s research training. In addition to conducting supervised research, postdoctoral training will involve auditing advanced coursework at UT Austin and active participation in a UT Austin interdisciplinary center related to the fellow’s research area. Successful candidates must identify and work with a School of Nursing mentor. Read More
Explore Research Assistant Jobs
1. Part-Time Research Assistant
Under the direction of the study PIs, the research assistant will coordinate the planning and execution of tasks to support the conduct of “APOL 1 Genetic Testing: Exploring Knowledge and Attitudes to Improve Comprehensive Kidney Risk Assessment for Patients and Families.” This study is a complex, high-impact project which has been funded by three awards from Mid-America Transplant Foundation. Read More
2. Animal Attendant III, Animal Resources Center
To support ongoing biomedical research on UT Campus by providing husbandry and animal care to research animals.
Responsibilities
Provides husbandry and animal care to all species housed at the ARC. This includes USDA covered large animals, other USDA covered species, rodents, and aquatics.
Performs all aspects of animal husbandry including feeding, watering, cage cleaning and monitoring health and behavior. Read More
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