Open position: Postdoc position in Molecular mechanisms of development and mosquito transmission of malaria parasites

Prof. Oliver Billker, director of MIMS, professor at the Department of Molecular Biology, seeks a postdoc to a project in Molecular mechanisms of development and mosquito transmission of malaria parasites. The position is full-time and for two years, access 1 May 2023 or upon agreement.

As part of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, the host Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, MIMS, is closely integrated with a European excellence network, its advanced research infrastructure and international networking opportunities.

Application deadline: 23 March 2023

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"Excellence by Choice" Postdoctoral Programme in Life Science 2023

A new call for postdoctoral fellows is open in the frame of the "Excellence by Choice" Postdoctoral Prohramme for Life Science. The application deadline is 19 March 2023.

Umeå University is currently running the “Excellence by Choice” Postdoctoral Programme in Life Science research to train outstanding young researchers and stimulate cutting-edge research. As a collaboration between the two national Centres of Excellence – Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR) and Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) – the programme aims to encourage new synergies in Life Science with a focus on molecular and translational research and to strengthen world-class research activities in Umeå. Patron for the programme is Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier, who discovered the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology during her time as a scientist and group leader in Umeå.

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Open position: Postdoc opportunities in the Henriksson lab

Picture: Johan Henriksson, MIMS group leader. Credit: Mattias Petterson. 

The Henriksson lab is seeking two postdoctoral scientists to work on Project 1) in CAR T cells and CRISPR screening methods development, or on Project 2) in machine learning for single-cell data analysis. You will be based in the lab of Johan Henriksson (www.henlab.org). The Henriksson lab is based at the Department of Molecular Biology and is part of The Laboratory of Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), which is the Swedish node within the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine.

Applications are reviewed as they come in. 

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Master student thesis projects in the Henriksson lab

Master thesis projects available in advanced molecular biology protocol development, of relevance for CAR T cells and malaria high-throughput screening! Hard working students who are prepared to roll up their sleeves and move out of their comfort zone are most welcome to apply :)

We are developing several protocols to improve the efficiency of pooled CRISPR or barseq screens, where extracting more information about each cell will boost the statistics. This is especially important when the cells are few (primary cells) or the expansion is uneven (in vivo screens). The project may also be combined with bioinformatics (python, R or java) based on student interests.

Keywords: Cloning, sequencing, inverse PCR, padlock probes, UMIs, mate pairing, HiC, ATACseq, RNAseq, CRISPR, cell culture, lentiviruses, bioinformatics

Illustration by Johan Henriksson. 

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Students are welcome

If you are interested to do an internship in a research group at MIMS and you know which group and topic should it be, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (project coordinator at MIMS) and she will get in touch with the selected group leader. To see the research groups and their topics, go to https://www.mims.umu.se/groups.html .