[APES Jobs] FW: [saabnet] Postgraduate opportunities/bursaries UFS

[Bursaries, Employment and Career Opportunities in Environmental Fields]

Prof Kevin Balkwill

Professor in the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences

Assistant Dean:  Staff Development in the Faculty of Science

University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS, 2050, South Africa



Reverend Kevin Balkwill

Assistant Priest (self-supporting), Anglican Church of St Mark, Northriding



Work Telephone +27 (0) 11 717-6468 -- Fax number +27 (0) 11 -717-6494 or 086-553-6376

Home telephone number +27 (0) 11 782-7642 -- Cell number 072-417-6813

E-mail: Kevin.Balkwill at wits.ac.za

http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Science/APES/  http://www.wits.ac.za/pullenfarm
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Postgraduate Opportunities Available

Project Title: Sorghum secretome analysis under abiotic stress conditions

Summary of Masters and PhD student projects:
MASTERS STUDENT #1 (to start immediately) will be involved in the
establishment of a sorghum
cell culture (in vitro) system, the gel based and non-gel based
proteomic mapping of its secretome and the
investigation of the secretome's response towards salinity stress using
2DE and MALDI TOF- TOF MS.

MASTERS  STUDENT  #2 (to  start  in  January  2016) will  be involved
in  the  optimisation  of  an
efficient extraction method for apoplastic proteins from sorghum leaves
(in planta system), the gel based
and non-gel based secretome mapping of this secretome prior to stress
and the assessment of expressional
changes in the in planta secretome following salinity stress treatment.

PhD  STUDENT  (to  start  immediately)  will  be  involved  in  the
comparative  analysis  of  protein
expressional changes in sorghum in vitro and in planta systems in
response to a range of abiotic stresses
(drought,  salinity  and  high  temperature)  using  gel  based
proteomic  approaches.  The  student  will  also
investigate the effect of sorghum’s genetic variation on the abiotic
stress response networks of in planta
systems.

NRF grantholder-linked bursaries available:
Masters: R40 000 per year for 2 years (Full time)

PhD:  R60 000 per year for 3 years. (Full time)

Contact: Dr Rudo Ngara, Department of Plant Sciences, University of the
Free State, Qwaqwa Campus,
Phuthaditjhaba, 9866.

Tel: +27 (0)58 718 5332  E-mail: ngarar at qwa.ufs.ac.za  Cell: + 27 (0)82
741 1509