PostDoc position in whole brain imaging

A post doc position is available for highly motivated candidates. The project focuses on visualizing viral infection and pathological changes in whole mouse brain. By developing and using advanced 3D imaging methods we want to answer how neurotropic flaviviruses gain access to the brain and cause disease. The project will be conducted in the group of Anna K Överby at The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), the Swedish node of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University and Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University.

Application deadline: 18 December 2020. To see the full job description and to apply, please go to:

• https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/postdoc_367443/ (in English) 
• https://www.umu.se/jobba-hos-oss/lediga-jobb/postdoktor_367443/ (in Swedish).

PhD/PostDoc Opportunities - Molecular Infection Biology and Cell-Autonomous Immunity

Project: Many of the most significant pathogens have the capacity to invade human cells and to exploit the interior of their host cell as replicative niche. While human cells have powerful defense programs that can restrict the growth of such invaders, successful pathogens typically evolved to resist these attacks. In the Sixt Lab, we believe that a profound understanding of the molecular basis of this arms race could pave the way for innovative therapeutics that can fight pathogens by unleashing the host cell-intrinsic defenses. Specifically, we strive to explore cell-autonomous immunity and evasion mechanisms during infection with the obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis, and we seek ways to manipulate the balance to the benefit of the host.

We are currently seeking a PostDoc and a PhD student for a project that will apply state-of-the-art tools in molecular genetics, microscopy, and high-throughput genetic screening to determine the role of the Chlamydia-containing vacuole in counteracting cell-autonomous immunity.

Credit for image: Barbara Sixt, MIMS, Umeå University. Human cell infected with Chlamydia trachomatis.

Continue to read for all details on how to apply!

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The Swedish Research Council (VR) awards 11 researchers at the medical research field at Umeå University

Source: https://www.umu.se/nyheter/miljoner-till-medicinsk-forskning-i-umea_9767496/

Several researchers within the MIMS/UCMR research community got funding from the Swedish Research Council: Jörgen Johansson, Anders Sjöstedt, Constantin Urban and Anna Överby Wernstedt. Congratulations to them! 

Read the article (in Swedish) for more details here. 

This year the Swedish Research Council distributed a more modest budget to support research projects at the field of medicine and health but there is high hope for next year as the government partitioned a higher bugdet for VR again. 

Visit the website of the Swedish Research Council for more information: https://www.vr.se 

NCMM visit to MIMS, Umeå, to learn the A-Z of cryo-EM

Text: Annabel Darby  Source: https://projects.au.dk/nordic-embl-partnership/show-news/artikel/ncmm-visit-to-mims-umeaa-to-learn-the-a-z-of-cryo-em/

Read the articel here about Ahmad Ali Ahmad's (postdoctoral researcher in the Sekulic Group at NCMM) visit in the group of Linda Sandblad (UCEM, Umeå University/MIMS) to learn all aspects of cryo-EM and apply this method to study centromeric chromatin. 

Postdoc Fellowship on mouse fertilization, mouse gamete interactions by cryo-ET at Umeå University and Karolinska Institute

Welcome to apply for a postdoc fellowship and join our EM community at Umeå University!
You will be studying mouse fertilization, mouse gamete interactions by using cryo-ET and other imaging methods. More information about the overall context of this research, may be found at http://jovinelab.org" data-sk="tooltip_parent">http://jovinelab.org.

The research project is a collaboration between a research group at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Huddinge, Sweden and a research group at the Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden, associated with the UCEM and Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS). The postdoc will be located at the Department of Chemistry, Umeå University and short visits at the KI partner laboratory will be included.

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