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Umeå University, Medicinska fakulteten
Umeå University is one of Sweden’s largest higher education institutions with over 37,000 students and about 4,700 employees. The University offers a diversity of high-quality education and world-leading research in several fields. Notably, the groundbreaking discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was made here. At Umeå University, everything is close. Our cohesive campuses make it easy to meet, work together and exchange knowledge, which promotes a dynamic and open culture.
The ongoing societal transformation and large green investments in northern Sweden create enormous opportunities and complex challenges. For Umeå University, conducting research about – and in the middle of – a society in transition is key. We also take pride in delivering education to enable regions to expand quickly and sustainably. In fact, the future is made here.
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The Faculty of Medicine, which consists of 13 departments, is responsible for biomedical research and courses in the field of nursing and health care and has an extensive research and graduate education in more than 80 subjects.
The Department for Clinical Microbiology is looking for a Project assistant (full-time, 4 months)
Project
Regulation innate immune and DNA damage responses. The goal of the Project is to investigate how the innate immune DNA damage signaling pathways are regulated..
Description of work tasks
Characterization of congenital immune and DNA damaging signaling pathways in cells from different transgenic knockout mice using molecular and cell biological techniques such as immunoblotting, ELISA and Real Time PCR. To erase or overexpress different genes in eukaryotic cells with lenti / retroviral systems. Isolate genomic DNA and genotype biopsies from transgenic mice
Qualifications
Master of Science degree in immunology or cell/molecular biology. Earlier experience of signal transduction in host microbial interaction, in particular, analysis of congenital immune and DNA damage signaling is required.
Expertise and experience in the following techniques is required.
- Working in the field of mouse models of inflammation and DNA damage
- Lentiviral and or retroviral approaches for gene manipulation
- Tissue culture techniques
- Molecular Cell biology techniques including, immunoblotting, ELISA, preparation of genomic DNA from mouse biopsies, plasmid preparation and cloning.
Other desirable qualifications
- Proficiency in English (spoken and written)
Terms of employment
The employment is valid for four months, by agreement.
Application
You apply through our recruitment system Varbi by 2018-12-11.
Your application must contain:
- Personal letter
- CV
- Transcripts / degrees
More information
For further information, please contact Anders Sjöstedt (anders.sjostedt@umu.se).
Welcome with your application!
| Type of employment | Special fixed-term employment |
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| Contract type | Full time |
| First day of employment | Enligt överenskommelse |
| Salary | Månadslön |
| Number of positions | 1 |
| Full-time equivalent | 100 % |
| City | Umeå |
| County | Västerbottens län |
| Country | Sweden |
| Reference number | AN 2.2.1-2042-18 |
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| Published | 29.Nov.2018 |
| Last application date | 11.Dec.2018 11:59 PM CET |