Postdoctor (2 years) in innate immunity to infection - ,

The Department of Molecular Biology has about 200 employees. The department's main tasks involve research, graduate education, and undergraduate education as well as interactions with the community. Affiliated with both the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Faculty of Medicine, the department's research and education activity includes several molecular biological areas within science and medicine: cell biology, microbiology, infection biology, tumor biology and neurobiology in conjunction with the use of genetic model organisms (except plants). For more information, see: www.umu.se/en/department-of-molecular-biology/.

We are looking for a postdoctor in innate immunity to infection at the Department of Molecular Biology at Umeå University, Sweden. The opening is temporary for two years and available from May 2020 or as agreed.

Project description and work tasks

We study how intestinal cells and the intestinal bacteria react to the signal extracellular ATP during infection and during sterile inflammation.  The open project aims at describing the transcriptional response to extracellular ATP in cells of the infected gut mucosa. You will carry out experimental work, perform the lab’s routine cell culture, design experiments, present the findings, write manuscripts and help supervising undergraduate students.  You will be based in the lab of Andrea Puhar at the Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University.

Qualifications

You must hold a University degree equivalent of a European University PhD in Natural Sciences at the time of recruitment. To be eligible you should have completed your PhD degree a maximum of three years before the end of the application period, unless special circumstances exist. You should be highly motivated, have very good communication skills with senior colleagues and peers and the ability to interact in a team.

You must have prior training in cell culture (including work with intestinal epithelial cells), microbiological techniques (including: work with Shigella and Listeria), biochemical techniques (including: luminescence assays and Western blots), histology (including: embedding of paraffin-fixed samples, cutting, staining by immunohistochemistry and FISH) and fluorescence microscopy.

You need to be skilled in both oral and written communication in English.

Application

You apply through our recruitment system. The application should be written in English. The deadline for application is 25 March 2020. The application should include:

• A personal cover letter explaining why you are interested in the position, how you can contribute to the project and in which direction you may want to develop it (no more than 2 A4 pages).
• A curriculum vitae that documents academic education and past and previous employments.
• Your publication list.
• A copy of the PhD certificate and other relevant degree certificates.
• A copy of doctoral thesis
• Names and contact details with e-mail addresses of two or three academic references.
• Other relevant documentation you wish to include in support of your application.

We welcome your application!