Doctoral Programme in Life Sciences - Integrated Experimental and Computational Biology (PhD)

Direction of the programme
Prof. Nouria Hernandez

Contact person:
Dr Keith Harshman
Lausanne Genomic Technologies Facility
Center for Integrative Genomics
University of Lausanne
CH-1015 Lausanne
Tel. : ++41 (0)21 692 3906
Fax : ++41 (0)21 692 3905
Keith.Harshman@unil.ch

Programme desc:
The IECB Doctoral Programme (PhD) is associated to the Doctorate in Life Sciences (PhD).

The Doctoral Program in Integrative Experimental and Computational Biology (IECB) is a multi-departmental program that aims to attract highly motivated, international students who wish to pursue biological research incorporating experimental and computational approaches. PhD topics offered span the study of molecules, cells, organisms and their environment, and cover developmental biology, physiology, cancer biology, neuroscience, behaviour and evolutionary biology. This program, which is part of the Doctoral School of the University of Lausanne’s Faculty of Biology and Medicine, harbours an international group of students working in a multidisciplinary, English-speaking research environment.

The IECB program, working in close association with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics-SIB, provides training and experience in the reasoning, logic and abilities inherent to both experimental and computational approaches and educates students in quantitative analysis of biological questions. Students are offered instruction in genome-wide and proteome-wide data analysis, biological modelling, quantitative image analysis, programming and statistics, in addition to a thorough education in experimental biology, through a didactic program that complements both their individual research topic and background. Thus, PhD students become conversant in both experimental and computational approaches and acquire the ability to integrate quantitative and experimental methods in their own research. Graduates from this program will have unprecedented scientific competence to permit them to become future leaders in biological research and beyond.

Admissions deadline:
Please contact the University Admissions Department for information: www.unil.ch/immat/page5371_en.html.

Registration deadline for the doctoral programme:
Candidates must apply to the programme when they register as doctoral students, using the application procedure on the web site: www.unil.ch/iecb/page78651.html

Admissions conditions:
To be admitted to the IECB Doctoral Programme, candidates must be eligible as doctoral students in Life Sciences (PhD) at UNIL and have been accepted as doctoral students by an FBM PhD thesis director.