The Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine will hold its Annual Meeting in September 2020

The 10^th Annual Meeting of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine between 22-25 September 2020, is organized by the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, and it will be a virtual meeting. It brings together mainly the group leaders, postdoctoral researchers, and PhD students of the Nordic EMBL Partnership with researchers from EMBL and its broader network to discuss their research, develop new ideas and initiate new projects.

We are looking forward to sharing an exciting and motivating four days of scientific meeting with you! Please visit the conference website for more information, regarding registration and abstract susmission: https://2020nordicemblpartnership.se/ 

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A high profile review publication on antibiotic resistance from the Hauryliuk and Atkinson labs

Antibiotics bind to and corrupt the functioning of crucial elements of bacterial cells, such as the ribosome that synthesises proteins or RNA polymerase that reads genes to generate mRNA. To counter the action of antibiotics, bacteria have evolved numerous dedicated mechanisms of resistance. Commonly, these resistance mechanisms act by either destroying the antibiotic, pumping it out of the cell or permanently modifying the molecular target so it becomes immune to the antibiotic, e.g. by post-translational modification such as methylation.

In this review published in the influential journal Nature Reviews Microbiology, Umeå researchers Vasili Hauryliuk (also affiliated with Tartu University, Estonia) and Gemma C. Atkinson together with their collaborators Daniel N. Wilson (University of Hamburg, Germany) and Alex J. O’Neill (University of Leeds, UK) discuss an important and increasingly recognised type of antibiotic resistance: antibiotic resistance through target protection.

Read more: A high profile review publication on antibiotic resistance from the Hauryliuk and Atkinson labs

3 Postdoctoral fellowships (2 years) in Modelling COVID-19, Antimicrobials and Inland water carbon cycle

The Integrated Science Lab (IceLab) jointly with the Departments of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Ecology and Environmental Sciences at Umeå University, seek three postdoctoral fellows, one to each of the following three multidisciplinary projects: (1) modelling of COVID-19 dynamics, (2) identifying targets for antimicrobials, and (3) climate impacts on the inland water cycle.

IceLab at Umeå University: an interdisciplinary hub located at Umeå University in northern Sweden. We are working to break down the traditional boundaries between different scientific disciplines. When researchers with wide-ranging backgrounds, questions and ways of thinking are brought together, they may come up with innovative ideas if conditions are favourable for generating outside-the-box thinking.

Umeå University: conducts internationally recognized research in several areas, including applied mathematics, microbiology, epidemiology, public health, sustainability, economics, and artificial intelligence.

To read the full fellowship descriptions, please visit Nature carrers website here or read them at Researchgate here. 

Postdoctoral Project in Molecular Infection Biology (Proteomics-Lipidomics) at the Sixt Lab

Project: The obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis is the leading infectious cause of blindness and the most common bacterial agent of sexually transmitted diseases and infertility. The pathogen has a unique developmental biology. Moreover, within the host cell, the bacteria replicate inside a membrane-enclosed vacuole called inclusion. Our knowledge of the biogenesis of the inclusion and of its interactions with host organelles is scarce. In this project, we aim to illuminate these fascinating aspects of host-pathogen interaction using proteomic, lipidomic, and microscopic approaches.

Project duration: 2 years (with possibility for further prolongation depending on satisfactory performance).

Starting date: End of 2020 (can be negotiated).

For full description of the project, please visit: the Sixt Lab´s website or Euraxess. Contact person: Barbara Sixt (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) 

Postdoctoral fellowship (2 years) in cryo-electron tomography

A postdoctoral fellowship, funded by a project grant by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation, is available for a highly motivated candidate within cell biology or developmental biology to do research with cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and related methods. 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.

For the full description, please go to: http://www.mims.umu.se/jobs-fellowships.html or https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/fellowships-and-grants/6-1250-20/. 

We look forward to receiving your applications!