Dear List, I wanted to draw your attention to EMBL's PhD programme. EMBL is one of the more successful molecular biology research institutions in Europe, with sites in Heidelberg, Cambridge, Grenoble, Rome and Hamburg, and it offers an excellent PhD programme. Obviously there is a lot of fine "classical wet-lab biology", but there are also great opportunities for people with quantitative qualifications (e.g. maths, physics, computer science, statistics, engineering) in fields such as live cell imaging, genomics/genetics and modelling in cell biology and development. The application deadline for admissions in autumn 2008 is 17 December 2007. Please see here for more info http://www.embl.org/training/phdprogramme/brochure.html and also here for the EBI: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/Studentships/ PS, compared to many PhD programmes in the US, EMBL's is also quite fast: 3-3.5 years. Best wishes Wolfgang ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wolfgang Huber EBI/EMBL Cambridge UK http://www.ebi.ac.uk/huber