• Place and date: 28 Sept-2 Oct 2009. Barcelona

ISOCS Summer School. This Training Event builds on the teaching materials and experience of the 2004-2008 Series of Artificial Olfaction Schools organized by the Network of Excellence GOSPEL.

World leaders in Artificial Olfaction come to Barcelona to teach the fundamental concepts behind the visionary goal of mimicking olfaction. Join the ISOCS Summer School for an exciting week of learning, discussion and hands-on-labs.

ISOCS: The International Society of Olfaction and Chemical Sensing is a multidisciplinary community of leading academics and industry by promoting inter-disciplinary exchanges, consolidating diverse expertise, improving skills for researchers and facilitating the use of chemical sensing in appropiate applications. Learn more about the society in the webpage http://www.olfactionsociety.org
• Knowledge – delivered by leading researchers through amixture of lectures, demonstrations, practical exercises.
• Career development – career planning and examples of commercial exploitation will be discussed
• Multidisciplinary approach – diverse perspectives in technology and biology will be covered
• Networking – opportunity to build personal networks and meet active researchers who are advancing the field in both academia and industry.

If you are interested please register soon, via the webpage: http://www.olfactionsociety.org

• Place and date: Friday, 16th January 2009, 2:30h. Instituto Cajal de Madrid
Speaker: Dr. Alino Martinez-Marcos, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete
Title: “The olfactory and vomeronasal systems: connective organisation, adult neurogenesis and pathological implications”

Job announcement

The University of Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellowships 2012
Closing Date Schools/Institutes: 20 June 2011

The University of Queensland (UQ) invites applications for a number of Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in 2012, to be awarded to early career researchers of exceptional calibre wishing to conduct full-time research at the University in any of its disciplines.

In particular, the scheme aims to attract outstanding recent doctoral graduates to the University in areas of institutional research priority.

To be eligible, an applicant must not have had more than five years full-time professional research experience or equivalent part-time experience since the award of a PhD, as at 30 June 2011. The selection process will also consider the alignment of the proposed research with areas of existing research strength, or research areas that UQ Faculties/Institutes wish to develop as strategic priorities.

The period of appointment will be for three years and appointees are expected to commence in early 2012. The current salary range for the award is A$76,592.18 - $85,351.16 p.a., comprising a base salary of A$65,463.41 - $72,949.71, plus 17% superannuation. Each appointee will be entitled to maintenance funds of A$20,000 over the term of the Fellowship to support research costs. Appointees relocating from interstate or overseas will be entitled to reimbursement of travel and relocation costs.

The Guidelines, Conditions of Award and Application Form are available online at:
www.uq.edu.au/research/rid/fellowships.

For further information, contact UQFellowships@research.uq.edu.au.

Research and Innovation Division
29 April 2011
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Contact:
Eugeni Roura
Senior Research Fellow
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences The University of Queensland