Welcome to the EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdocs [EIPOD] pages.

With the new EIPOD initiative, EMBL underlines its strong commitment to promote interdisciplinary research. The institution has a long-standing tradition of scientific excellence that builds on highly interactive research between the research units: Cell Biology and Biophysics, Developmental Biology, Director's Research, Gene Expression and Structural and Computational Biology at the main laboratory in Heidelberg, Bioinformatics at EMBL-EBI in Hinxton [UK], Structural Biology in Hamburg [Germany], Structural Biology in Grenoble [France] and Mouse Biology in Monterotondo [Italy].EIPOD projects bring together scientific fields that are usually separate or transfer techniques to a novel context.

In the 2008 selection round, EMBL will fund a minimum of 12 EIPODs supported by at least two labs, preferably located in different units. Each project will have one scientific supervisor who will officially host the EIPOD, but all projects will involve extensive collaboration with the partner labs. Applicants are invited to design and propose an interdisciplinary project of their choice according to scientific interest. Alternatively, they may select from a list of pre-designed projects available from June 2008 onwards on this website.

Complementary funding can be used to extend postdoctoral training up to a total duration of five years. EIPODs will join the EMBL postdoctoral programme with its broad range of advanced training and career development opportunities.

The Online Application for the 2008 selection will be open from 1 June 2008.

EMBL is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer offering attractive conditions and benefits appropriate to an international research organisation.