Research assistant, 2 years, in innate immunity to infection - ,
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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.
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The Faculty of Medicine, which consists of 12 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.
We are looking for a research assistant in innate immunity to infection at the Department of Molecular Biology at Umeå University. The position is full-time for two years with access February 2022.
Project description and working tasks
We study how intestinal epithelial cells and the intestinal bacterium Shigella flexneri react to the signal extracellular ATP during infection and during sterile inflammation. The open project aims at describing the response to extracellular ATP in infected cells of the gut mucosa, with focus on intestinal epithelial cells. You will carry out experimental and bioinformatic 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.
Qualifications
You must hold a University degree equivalent to a European University PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the time of recruitment. 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 (experience with intestinal epithelial cells is a plus), microbiological techniques (including: work with Shigella flexneri), molecular biology (including: RNA purification from mammalian and bacterial cells), biochemical techniques (including: Northern blots), programming and bioinformatic analysis (including: programming in R and Python, RNA-Seq data analysis, network analysis, de novo genome assembly).
You need to be skilled in both oral and written communication in English.
Application
You apply through our recruitment system Varbi. The application should be written in English or Swedish. The deadline for application is 28th of December 2022. 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
- 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.
- Names and contact details with e-mail addresses of two or three academic references.
We welcome your application!
More about us
For more information, please contact Andrea Puhar (andrea.puhar@umu.se). We look forward to receiving your application.
| Type of employment | Temporary position |
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| Contract type | Full time |
| First day of employment | February 2022 |
| Salary | Monthly salary |
| Number of positions | 1 |
| Full-time equivalent | 100% |
| City | Umeå |
| County | Västerbottens län |
| Country | Sweden |
| Reference number | AN 2.2.1-1859-21 |
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| Published | 07.Dec.2021 |
| Last application date | 28.Dec.2021 11:59 PM CET |