<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Gate users,</div><div class="">Pay attention to the PhD offer below with a collaborative study with GATE and Geant4-DNA:)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lydia Maigne</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><font face="Arial" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Dear all, </font><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I would like to draw your attention to a PhD offer to work <span class="" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">on modeling radiation exposure of microorganisms living in mineral radioactive sources using GATE and Genat4-DNA. </span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Radioactive mineral springs are unique ecosystems where ionizing radiation can act as an “abiotic driver” impacting the diversity and structure of microbial communities.</span></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Arial" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Within the context of</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""> Zone-Atelier Territoires Uranifères (<a href="http://zatu.org" class="">http://zatu.org</a>), several laboratories from three CNRS institutes (Nuclear and Particle Physics, Chemistry, Ecology and Environment) have started exploring interactions between radionuclides and microorganisms living in these springs in the French Massif Central.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><font face="Arial" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span lang="EN-US" class="">To disentangle the effect of ionizing radiations from chemical toxicity of radioelements, we propose a PhD dedicated to the Monte-Carlo simulation of the radioinduced DNA damages to two microbial communities (diatoms and cyanobacteria) living in these sources. The simulation will use the GATE and GEANT4-DNA toolkits and build upon biological, chemical and radiological data collected in naturally radioactives springs from France, Czech Republic and other countries (possibly in Asia).</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">Students interested are invited to apply at the following link: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/2wBmAWn" class="">http://bit.ly/2wBmAWn</a>"</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></font></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="">
<div>*************************************************************<br class="">Lydia Maigne, PhD<br class="">Spokesperson of the OpenGATE collaboration</div><div><a href="http://www.opengatecollaboration.org" class="">www.opengatecollaboration.org</a></div><div><br class="">Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont<br class="">UMR 6533 CNRS/IN2P3 - Université Clermont Auvergne<br class=""><br class="">Campus Universitaire des Cézeaux<br class="">4, avenue Blaise Pascal<br class="">TSA 60026<br class="">CS 60026<br class="">63178 - Aubière Cedex<br class="">FRANCE<br class=""><br class="">Tel: (33) (0) 4 73 40 51 23<br class=""><a href="mailto:Lydia.Maigne@clermont.in2p3.fr" class="">email: Lydia.Maigne@clermont.in2p3.fr</a><br class="">*************************************************************</div><br class=""><br class="">
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