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Postdoc for the development of CRISPR genome editing services in the Brakebusch Group at BRIC, University of Copenhagen

http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=894241

CRISPR genome editing has dramatically facilitated the generation of genetically modified mice in recent years. In a rapidly developing field, new procedures with further improvements are published nearly every day and great research activity is ongoing to increase in particular the efficiency of introducing defined changes into the genome. In close collaboration with the Brakebusch group, the Transgenic Mouse Core Facility at the University of Copenhagen was one of the first places in Europe to generate genetically modified mice by CRISPR technology and since then established it as a routine transgenic technology. To stay at the front of mouse genome editing and to establish a molecular biology service for CRISPR genome editing tools at the Transgenic Mouse Core Facility, the Brakebusch group is now announcing a 2 year postdoc position, which, if successful, could be continued.

Our research/The Group
The Brakebusch group is investigating the function of Rho GTPases and Rho GTPase effectors in vivo using genetically modified mice with CRISPR genome editing as a central technology. We have strong experience in molecular and cellular biology and the analysis of mouse phenotypes, while all transgenic technologies such as ES cell manipulation, embryo injections, and embryo transfers, are placed at the Transgenic Mouse Core Facility, headed by Cord Brakebusch.

The research project
The postdoc will test and develop molecular biology methods to improve the generation of CRISPR genome edited mice. Successful methods will then be translated into novel molecular biology services at the Transgenic Mouse Core Facility. Aim is to establish within 2 years a state-of-the-art service that will then be continued together with the technology development activities.

Start: Preferably May 2017 or after agreement
Duration: 2 years

Qualifications
We expect you to be a highly motivated and highly ambitious scientist with the following qualifications:

• A PhD in Life Sciences and preferably postdoctoral research experience
• Excellent expertise in molecular biology
• Excellent experience in CRISPR genome editing including design and preparation of constructs for homologous recombination
• High interest in developing the best CRISPR genome editing service possible
• Excellent English skills written and spoken

For further information regarding the position, please contact Cord Brakebusch (cord.brakebusch@bric.ku.dk)

Place of employment
The employment is at BRIC, University of Copenhagen. BRIC is located in the Biocenter, close to the centre of Copenhagen. We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in a dynamic and international research environment. Our research facilities include modern laboratories and a number of core facilities shared between the 23 research groups at BRIC and the neighboring Finsen Laboratory. We have weekly journal clubs, data clubs, seminars with invited speakers and a young researchers club ASAP and our own PhD programme, MoMeD and our own Postdoc Career Programme. BRIC actively participates in the European alliance, EU-life consisting of 13 excellent life science research institutions http://eu-life.eu/

Please read more about the Brakebusch research group and BRIC on http://www.bric.ku.dk/ and about the Transgenic Mouse Core Facility on http://www.transgenicmice.ku.dk

Terms of salary and employment
Salary, pension and terms of employment will be in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Academics Central organization. Currently, the monthly salary starts at 32.351 DKK/ca. 4.250 Euro plus pension. Depending on qualifications, a higher salary may be negotiated.

Non-Danish and Danish applicants may be eligible for tax reductions, if they hold a PhD degree and have not lived in Denmark the last 10 years.

The position is covered by the “Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at the Universities” of June 28, 2013.

Application
Your application must be submitted electronically by clicking ‘Apply now’ below or via BRIC’s website on http://www.bric.ku.dk/jobs/. The application must include the following documents/attachments – all in PDF format:

1. Motivated letter of application (max. one page).
2. CV incl. education, work/research experience, language skills and other skills relevant for the position.
3. A certified/signed copy of a) PhD certificate and b) Master of Science certificate. If the PhD is not completed, a written statement from the supervisor will do.
4. List of publications.

Letters of recommendation
Furthermore, the applicant should provide two letters of recommendation. To be taken into consideration, the letter must be signed by the supporting person on paper with institutional letter head and in PDF-format. The letters should be received before deadline on jobs@bric.ku.dk with subject “name candidate-Brakebusch-postdoc-March2017”; preferably by the supporting person. Please make sure that an easy match between the recommendation letter and the individual applicant is possible.

Application deadline: 23-03-2017

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications or letters of recommendation that do not live up to the above-mentioned requirements.

The further process
Shortlist: After expiry of the application deadline, the superior with power to appoint selects a number of applicants for assessment on the advice of the Appointments Committee. All applicants are immediately notified whether their application has been passed for assessment. Applicants who were not passed for assessment should not expect further with regard to their application unless the shortlist is revised.

Assessment: The selected applications will be assessed according to the Ministry Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities 2012 and the University of Copenhagen’s guidelines 2013. The Assessment Committee makes a non-prioritized assessment of the academic qualifications and experience with respect to the above mentioned area of research, techniques, skills and other requirements listed in the advertisement.

You can read about the recruitment process at http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/

BRIC and University of Copenhagen wish to reflect the diversity of society and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

5 positions in bioinformatics in Bergen (associate professors)

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/134177/associate-professors-in-bioinformatics-up-to-five-positions

Open position for Assistant Professor or Associate Professsor (tenure track) of Molecular Biotechnology and In Vitro Diagnostics (Medical Diagnostics), University of Turku

www.utu.fi/en/university/come-work-with-us/open-vacancies/Pages/home.aspx

The University of Turku is a world-class multidisciplinary research university which offers interesting challenges and a unique vantage point to national and international research and education.

Applications are hereby invited for the position of Assistant Professor / Associate Professor (tenure track) of Molecular Biotechnology and In Vitro Diagnostics (Medical Diagnostics) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. We seek a talented and already merited young researcher who has shown potential in research and has strong knowledge of in vitro diagnostic assay methods and experience on translational biomarker research.

The post is placed at the Biotechnology section of the Department of Biochemistry, in which the research directed towards in vitro diagnostics and related molecular biotechnology and is both basic and applied research with main focus on fundamental research on diagnostics and biomarkers, point of care diagnostics and rapid tests, environmental and food diagnostics, molecular engineering of binder proteins, new assay technologies and luminescent reporters.

The tenure track post will be filled first as fixed-term employment periods as assistant and associate professor or as fixed-term employment as associate professor. The aim of advancing on the tenure track is the qualification into tenure of a professorship, which requires success in evaluation. The tenure track system of the University of Turku is clarified in more detail at the end of the appointment specification.

The post includes research work, teaching including supervising Master and PhD students and other activities in the academic community. The assistant professor is expected to co-operate with other research groups, to form and lead his or her own research group and to obtain external research funding at both domestic and international level.

The salary for this particular post is determined in accordance with the university salary system for teaching and research personnel (YPJ). The salary shall be determined when drawing up the employment contract.

For more detailed information on the application and evaluation procedure, and link to the application system at

https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?id=00003331&did=5600&lang=en&jc=14

Applications must be submitted on Thursday 16th of March 2017 at the latest.

Postdoc position for PhD in developmental psychology (or related discipline) in the Developmental Psychobiology Lab (DPB lab)

The Developmental Psychobiology Lab is part of the social development research program of the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) and of the Baby Research Center (BRC), Radboud University, The Netherlands.

Postdoc position for PhD in developmental psychology (or related discipline) in the Developmental Psychobiology Lab (DPB lab)
https://dpblab.org/research/
3-year project

Learning through bacteria?
Translating beneficial bacterial science to improving child education in Ivory Coast

In childhood, cognitive capacities are essential for learning new skills and participating in formal education. Many different factors facilitate the development of a child’s cognitive capacities: from socioeconomic factors and diet, to the quality of care. In this project, the focus will be on one potentially very relevant factor that has received little attention to date: the bacteria in our intestines. Intestinal bacteria have a central role in our health, but may also modulate brain development and functioning.

The goal of the project is to develop the novel and promising field of microbiota-cognition dynamics by performing two probiotic intervention studies, in infants and in preschoolers, within the Jacobs Foundation TRECC program in Ivory Coast.  We will determine whether this probiotic supplement can be linked to better cognitive functioning in the young children. The ultimate goal is to improve children’s basic conditions for learning by achieving healthy brain development in a relatively easy and affordable manner. At the same time, the intervention should improve children’s health, physical, and psychological well-being.

This project is part of Prof. Carolina de Weerth’s Jacobs Advanced Research Fellowship.

For more information click here or mail: C.deWeerth@psych.ru.nl

Closure date: 25 March 2017

9 PhD student positions in H2020 funded Marie-Sklodowska-Curie ETN: ”PRINT-AID”

Open position for Business Development/Marketing Specialist at Te?ted Oy, Jyväskylä

The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Bergen, Norway, has 14 PhD student and 3 post-doc positions available

The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Bergen, Norway, has 14 PhD student and 3 post-doc positions available. Bergen is a beautiful, vibrant, modern Scandinavian city with a high standard of living, plenty of opportunities for outdoor activities, and good connections to the rest of Europe.  

For more details, see:

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/134170/phd-positions-14-positions

and

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/134181/postdoctoral-fellow-3-positions

The candidates for all positions must, in addition to other relevant documents, provide a detailed research plan linked to a research group at the faculty, as well as a statement from the supervisor. Hence, prior contact, well in time, to a research group is an absolute pre-requisite.

The newly established, ambitious structural biology groups at the Faculty include e.g. projects on structural neurobiology (http://www.uib.no/en/rg/petrikursula) and malaria parasite cytoskeleton and motility  (http://www.uib.no/en/rg/inari). 

Interested qualified candidates are encouraged to contact one of the the corresponding group leaders with their CVs as soon as possible, at the very latest by March 5th, for pre-screening and possible application preparation, as the application deadline of March 12th is approaching fast.

Contact for structural neurobiology: Petri Kursula (petri.kursula@uib.no)

Contact for the malaria project: Inari Kursula (inari.kursula@uib.no)

Junior group leader positions (senior researchers, 4 positions) & 5 Postdoctoral Researcher positions in Science and Medicine at the University of Turku

Research at the University of Turku is diverse and international. Our strongest fields of research form the basis for new and interdisciplinary projects. Numerous high positions in worldwide university rankings tell about the high quality of the university. Our research is profiled through the following thematic collaborations:

•                          Biofuture

•                          Digital futures

•                          Cultural memory and social change

•                          Children, young people and learning

•                          Drug development and diagnostics

•                          Sea and maritime studies

The aim of the Turku Collegium for Science and Medicine (TCSM) is to establish a multidisciplinary, interactive research platform for young dynamic scientists in Science and Medicine. This includes studies in the mathematics, informatics, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, geology, geography, medicine, biomedicine, dentistry and their equivalents.

 Junior group leader positions (senior researchers, 4 positions) in Science and Medicine

 Turku Collegium for Science and Medicine (TCSM) is seeking ambitious young researchers to start independent research work at one of the departments at the University of Turku, including Turku School of Economics.  The positions are funded for 3 years at a time and the term of office for the successful applicants will begin at the earliest on January 1, 2018.

 We will consider candidates from any area within Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Medicine with outstanding potential and established excellence in research. An optimal candidate has gained doctoral degree certificate a minimum of three years and a maximum of nine years before the expiry of the application submission deadline, and has international research experience (significant post doctoral research work abroad is essential).

 The closing date for applications is April 18, 2017 at 12.00 pm Finnish time (GMT +2).

 5 Postdoctoral Researcher positions in Science and Medicine

 Turku Collegium for Science and Medicine now invites applications for five (5) post-doctoral researcher positions for three-year periods.  The term of office for the successful applicants will begin at the earliest on January 1, 2018.

 We will consider candidates from any area within Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Medicine with outstanding potential and established excellence in research. The person to be appointed to the postdoctoral researcher position is required to hold a doctoral degree, which may not have been completed more than five years ago at the time of accepting the position. In this context, the 5 years refer to a net period of time, which does not include maternity leaves, parental leaves, or military service, etc.  A doctoral degree must be completed by the end of the application period and applicants are also expected to have attained other academic achievements.

 Applications must be submitted on March 15, 2017 at the latest (23.59.59) Finnish time (GMT +2).

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For further information please contact the TCSM Coordinator, Satu Alanko, by e-mail: satu.alanko@utu.fi .

More information:

http://www.utu.fi/en/research/research-collegia/tcsm 

 Apply for the job at www.utu.fi/careers

PhD student position in vascular remodeling, stem cell recruitment and adipose tissue function at the University of Helsinki

We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and committed student with genuine interest in research for a project that aims to understand the mechanisms regulating vascular remodeling in adipose tissue and its effect on obesity and insulin resistance in preclinical diabetes/metabolic syndrome models. 

The applicant should have some background in molecular and cell biology, and physiology. Previous wet lab experience is also desired. Masters thesis students are welcomed too.

The research group is coordinated by Dr. Marius Robciuc and Professor Kari Alitalo, who is the program leader and the director of Wihuri Research Institute

 Previous results published from this project:

 VEGFB/VEGFR1-Induced Expansion of Adipose Vasculature Counteracts Obesity and Related Metabolic Complications. Robciuc MR, Kivelä R, Williams IM, de Boer JF, van Dijk TH, Elamaa H, Tigistu-Sahle F, Molotkov D, Leppänen VM, Käkelä R, Eklund L, Wasserman DH, Groen AK, Alitalo K. Cell Metab. 2016

 VEGF-C is required for intestinal lymphatic vessel maintenance and lipid absorption. Nurmi H, Saharinen P, Zarkada G, Zheng W, Robciuc MR, Alitalo K. EMBO Mol Med. 2015

 Relevant review:

Lymphatic System in Cardiovascular Medicine. Aspelund A, Robciuc MR, Karaman S, Makinen T, Alitalo K. Circ Res. 2016

 APPLICATION PROCESS:

If you are interested, please send your application including CV, motivation letter, transcript of study records and names and contact information of one to two people willing to provide a reference, all in a single pdf-document, to: marius.robciuc@helsinki.fi.

Use as email subject: ”PhD position”. Please also attach or provide link to a short video (maximum 2 minutes), in which you introduce yourself and explain why you want to do research.

14 VISTA Post-Doc Awards at York University, Toronto

VISTA Postdoctoral Awards Available at York University