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Director of the Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland & Full Professor at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

The Idiap Research Institute and the School of Engineering at EPFL invite applications for the directorship of Idiap. The successful candidate will also hold a faculty position as full professor at EPFL School of Engineering. The Idiap Research Institute (www.idiap.ch) is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute, academically affiliated with the …

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PHD position in CENTURI 14 Cilia-powered 3D flow patterns

RESEARCH FIELD(S)1 Mucociliary epithelium, cilia, cell and tissue polarity, live imaging, image processing, metachronal waves, flow patterns, collective motion, active matter, Lattice Boltzmann simulations JOB DESCRIPTION  The purpose of this PhD project is to generate an experimental and theoretical framework to study cilia-driven fluid flow in vivo. The project brings …

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PHD position in CENTURI 12 Multi-view machine learning analysis of intestinal immune response initiation in Peyer’s patches

RESEARCH FIELD(S)1 Dynamic systems, molecular oscillators, ATP and GTP, biophysics, mathematics and computational biology, actin cytoskeleton JOB DESCRIPTION  Peyer’s patches are the main inductive sites of intestinal immunity, which is crucial for host defense against pathogens but also for regulation of the microbiota and tolerance to food proteins. Both right …

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