The University of Manitoba anticipates Research Associate positions will be available over the next six months beginning November 1, 2006 and April 30, 2007 in the following fields: aging and health from an interdisciplinary perspective; gerontology; epidemiology; public health; social and behavioural sciences, soil and environmental science, mineralogy and crystal chemistry and crystallography, geochemistry aboriginal/metis/ inuit/first nation health , knowledge translation, population health, health services social determinants of health , health transfer, crystallography, muscle regeneration, muscular dystrophy and drug development, professional collaboration, quality of health care, healthcare improvement and patient-centred practice, inter-faculty communication, and interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative studies on curriculum development and educational programs, quality of care, population health, child health, epidemiology, public health, social and behavioral sciences, knowledge transfer, quantitative social sciences, health services research, and social determinants of health, heat and mass transfer in biological materials; rheology, water activity and water relationships in biomaterials, superheated steam process modeling, computation of drying processes and instrumentation, postharvest technology, quality profiles and quality assessment for specialty crops, quantitative methods, disease surveillance, quality of care, population health, child health, epidemiology, public health, social and behaviour sciences knowledge transfer, health services research, social determinants of health, political economy, ecology, urbanization, globalization, gender, development, kinship and fosterage, symbolism, media, tourism and applied anthropology, environmental archaeology, zooarchaeology, lithics, settlement patterns, domestication, hunter/fisher/gatherers, skeletal biology, medical anthropology, demography, palaeodemography; historical epidemiology, palaeopathology; growth and development; 3D imaging, neurobiology, in vivo electrophysiological approaches to systems, neurophysiology, brain and spinal cord slice electrophysiological and pharmacological studies, in vitro brainstem and spinal cord preparations, immunohistochemistry, neural regeneration, magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, cerebral circulation, metabolism and neuroprotection, neuroimmunology, clinical electrophysiology and kinesiology, cerebral circulation, cell culture and transfection, molecular neurobiology, neuroanatomy, proteomics and mass spectrometry, neurochemistry, molecular endocrinology, molecular approaches to medical research, transgenic and knockout mouse models, molecular and developmental endocrinology, hormone regulation, hormone action, growth factors and steroid hormones in reproduction, placental and fetal development, molecular genetics of islet cell development and diabetes, protein purification, protein biochemistry, cell signalling, cell biology, gene transfer, prostate and breast cancers, RNA splicing, hypothalamic neuropeptides, molecular cardiology, oxidative stress and heart failure, cardiac apoptosis, growth factors and the heart, matric proteins, cardiovascular physiology, cardiac metabolism, cardiac membranes and contractile proteins, Ca2+-transport, signal transduction, ischemic heart disease, ischemia-reperfusion injury, vascular smooth muscle, hypertension research, protein electrophoresis, methods of preservation of the heart and brain during cardiac surgery using in vivo and in vitro models in combination with magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, Airway smooth muscle biophysics, respiratory physiology, asthma, vascular smooth muscle biophysics and biochemistry, airway smooth muscle bioenergetics ultrastructures and immunocytochemistry, pulmonary physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology, developmental biology of the lung, differentiation, receptor coupling and signalling in airway smooth muscle, educational research both qualitative and quantitative (survey questionnaire construction, conduct focus groups & interviews, coding and data analysis, plant pathology, agronomy, and plant physiology, plant molecular biology, and biochemistry and molecular biology, systems biology, molecular basis of human disease, breast cancer, experimental condensed matter, galactic plane survey, high energy astrophysics, condensed matter theory and statistical physics, mathematical physics, atomic mass measurements on nuclei far from stability with ion traps, time-of-flight mass spectrometry of biomolecules, atomic and molecular physics, electronic properties of nanostructures, spin transport in quantum systems, electron conduction in the DNA, spintronics, sub atomic physics, functional foods and nutraceuticals , research in fluid mechanics, closure problems and the nature of turbulence, flow in porous media, and application of finite difference and finite element techniques to fluid flow problems, thermal science, include two-phase flow in branching junctions and manifolds, condensation heat transfer with and without noncondensable gases, and computational fluid dynamics in porous media, material engineering research, deformation, laser and friction welding of aerospace materials, non-destructive prediction of failure, and composites durability, applied mechanics and design research, design and workability of artificial prosthetics, theory of fracture, analysis of iced electrical transmission lines, and computer-assisted analysis of linkages and mechanisms, manufacturing and controls research, manufacturing issues including teleoperation of equipment and human factors engineering, robotics, and robot-environment contact interactions, production and operation research, studies queueing models and network analysis, collaborative educational research, interprofessional practice, atmospheric science with a focus in extreme weather, storms, surface-atmosphere coupling, and numerical modeling applications this includes either mid-latitude or polar environments, atmospheric science with a focus in the field areas of electromagnetic and remote sensing of climate science, sea-ice geophysics, climatology this includes either mid-latitude or polar environments, atmospheric science with carbon dynamics in polar marine environment, air-surface carbon exchange, estuarine and tundra environments of the Canadian Arctic and sub Arctic coastal zones, terrestrial ecosystem modeling (Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere), eddy correlation systems, forest ecology, agriculture or related biological field in statistical modeling, forest biophysical modeling, invasive species biology, landscape change and spatial analysis of the agro ecosystem in remote sensing and image analysis, biology of IgA and its receptors mucosal immunology, estrogen action and cancer, mechanisms of cell death and survival in cancer, transcription factors, developmental biology, reproductive physiology, animal genetics, poultry nutrition, poultry management, nutritional biochemistry, mycotoxin metabolism, environmental physiology, physiology, molecular biology, microbiology, animal behaviour, swine nutrition, beneficiary effects of nutraceuticals & herbal medicine in vascular disorders, manure management, nutrient movement, Rumen fermentation, microbiology, ruminant nutrition, microelectronic materials and devices, nanotechnology, economic and social history of the Western Canadian grain industry, wildlife/ landscape/population ecology, nutrition health, food chemistry, cereal chemistry, food carbohydrates, food microbiology, food safety, food processing, food engineering, food analysis, food packaging. Normally all positions require a Ph.D. and relevant experience. Minimum starting salary: $30,000.00 /annum. Full range of staff benefits. Applications, including curriculum vitae, bibliography, names of referees and the specific field mentioned above for which you are applying should be sent to:
Kathy Niziol, Academic Advertising Coordinator
email:
Kathy_Niziol@umanitoba.ca Your application will be forwarded and the Researcher responsible will contact you directly, should the anticipated research positions become available. Application materials, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act ( Manitoba).
Questions about the academic postings? Contact Kathy_Niziol@umanitoba.ca of Human Resources
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