From: postdoc-sander@mskcc.org
Date: March 5, 2010 10:46:25 AM EST
To: turcotte@site.uottawa.ca
Subject: Postdoc opportunities in computational, mathematical and systems biology & new paper

Dear Colleague,

Please pass this on to interested candidates.

Exciting postdoc opportunities in computational, mathematical and systems biology
at the Computational Biology Center (cBio) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)
in New York

(1) Computational Cancer Genomics and Network Pharmacology- Group of Chris Sander @ MSKCC
   see: http://cbio.mskcc.org/jobs/ads/postdoc-sander.pdf
   see: http://cbio.mskcc.org/jobs/ads/postdoc-cancer-genomics-sander.pdf     

(2) Mathematical Cancer Biology - with Franziska Michor @ MSKCC
   see: http://cbio.mskcc.org/jobs/ads/postdoc-michor.pdf

(3) Computational Cancer Biology - with Barry Taylor and Chris Sander @ MSKCC
   see: http://cbio.mskcc.org/jobs/ads/postdoc-cancer-genomics-taylor.pdf

(4) Cancer Systems Biology - Postdoctoral position at Microsoft Research New England
    in Cambridge, MA, to work on a joint project with the Computational Biology Center 
    at MSKCC, New York, and Politecnico di Torino University, Italy.
    see: http://www.newscientistjobs.com/jobs/job/postdoctoral-fellow-in-cancer-systems-biology-ma-massachusetts-200712520.htm

Funding sources include three NIH Center grants at cBio at MSKCC:

(i) Physical Sciences Oncology Center (PSOC)
(ii) Genome Data Analysis Center (GDAC) of The Cancer Genome Atlas project (TCGA)
(ii) Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) in the Integrative Cancer Biology Program (ICBP)

Current cBio research faculty are Grégoire Altan-Bonnet, Christina Leslie, Franziska Michor, 
Joao Xavier and Chris Sander. The Bioinformatics Core is headed by Alex Lash and includes
faculty members Nicholas Socci and Raya Khanin. See: http://cbio.mskcc.org/people/index.html

The collaborative project at MSR in Cambridge, MA, is headed by Jennifer Chayes
see: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/jchayes/

We are looking for postdocs & staff members across all cBio groups
and for research faculty in computational and systems biology 
on an ongoing basis. See: http://cbio.mskcc.org/jobs/index.html

Also, you may be interested in the following recent publication in computational cancer biology:

Automated Network Analysis Identifies Core Pathways in Glioblastoma
Cerami E, Demir E, Schultz N, Taylor BS, Sander C.
PLoS One. 2010 Feb 12;5(2):e8918.
PMID: 20169195 
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action;?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0008918&representation=PDF

Thanks very much,

Chris Sander, cBio@MSKCC