Dear Colleagues -- I'd like to draw your attention to a NIH/NIST Joint Postdoc opportunity in the area of "Measurement Science for Reliability of Microarrays in Biology." The competition is open to both U.S. and non-U.S. citizens. The application deadline date is August 1 and awards will be made in late September. Ph.D. recipients within five years of the doctorate at the time of application are eligible to apply. The award offers an annual stipend of $55,000 plus relocation expenses, health insurance coverage, and limited professional travel. A website with details of the program is at: http://www4.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap.nsf/frmLabInfoSearchResults? ReadForm&AE~NIH-NIST A website with details of this research opportunity is at: http://www4.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap.nsf/ByTitle/AE.00.00.B5978? OpenDocument This work will be in partnership with Dr. Maggie Cam's lab (the core microarray facility at NIDDK). The broad program description is: National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Joint Postdoctoral Program (NIH-NIST) Measurement Science for Reliability of Microarrays in Biology Bethesda/Gaithersburg, MD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ecblank.gif Type: image/gif Size: 45 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/attachments /20040618/d1f7bf1b/ecblank.gif -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ecblank.gif Type: image/gif Size: 45 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/attachments /20040618/d1f7bf1b/ecblank-0001.gif -------------- next part -------------- Adviser Information: Oliver, Brian (NIH) (301) 496-5494 bol3p@nih.gov Salit, Marc (NIST) (301) 975-3646 marc.salit@nist.gov RESTRICTED ELIGIBILITY: This opportunity is available only to those applicants who have held their doctorate for less than five years at the time of application. SPECIAL NOTE: Please choose one Research Adviser from NIH and one Research Adviser from NIST. While researchers are enabled by microarrays to do massively multiplexed measurements, deriving meaningful biological insight from these data is challenging. Variability arises from numerous sources which involve the physics, chemistry, applied mathematics, statistics, and biology, leading to the complexity in interpreting results. This project would focus on characterizing the sources of measurement error and variability, and on developing novel methods to improve the reliability of microarray results. We will demonstrate the impact of these approaches in application to the interpretation of biological data for clinical diagnostics. Applicants should be interested in the fundamentals of measurement science underpinning microarrays in biology. Best regards, Dr. Marc Salit Research Chemist NIST Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8391 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8391 email: Salit@NIST.gov voice: +1 301 975-3646 fax: +1 301 869-0413