MIMS - Open Positions/Thesis work

Open position: Statistician in the Fors Connolly lab

The job entails work with large national multi-registry data for the whole Swedish population with data on infection with SARS-CoV-2, Puumala virus and Influenza viruses from The Public Health Agency, Sweden, and socioeconomic and comorbidity data from Statistics Sweden (SCB); the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, Social Insurance Agency and more.

Apply before 31 January 2021.

Open position: Postdoc scholarship in virology/infectious diseases in the Fors Connolly lab

The Department of Clinical Microbiology at Umeå University is seeking a postdoctoral research fellowship in virology/infectious diseases. The fellowship is for two years full time.

The position will be carried out in Dr Fors Connolly´s research group, who is also a MIMS Clinical Research Fellow. The position is interdisciplinary with clinicians, statisticians, epidemiologists and biomedical researchers. Recently, the research group of Fors Connolly published an epidemiological paper in The Lancet regarding the association between COVID-19 and acute cardiovascular events. The research focus is on determining underlying mechanisms of disease pathogenesis of COVID-19, Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and Influenza.

Apply before 31 January 2022.

Open position: Postdoctoral research fellowship (2 years) on mechanisms of autophagy

One postdoc opening in the "Autophagy mechanisms" is available in the group of Prof. Yaowen Wu at the Department of Chemistry, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research, Umeå University. The fellowship is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW). The project is funded by European Research Council (ERC). The project is interdisciplinary with strong collaborations across scientific disciplines. The fellowship is for two years full time.
Application deadline: 14. February 2022.

Open position: Associate Professor in Eukaryotic Molecular Genetics

Campus Host MLG0860 131010MLN The Department of Molecular Biology at Umeå University seeks an Associate Professor in the field of eukaryotic molecular genetics. The employee will conduct independent research, actively participate in postgraduate education and teach the subject area.

Application deadline: 31 January 2022.

1-2 Group Leader(s) in Molecular and Translational Neuroscience at DANDRITE

1-2 group leader positions in Molecular and Translational Neuroscience are available at the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience - DANDRITE of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine.

DANDRITE seeks a group leader in neuroscience to establish an independent research program that can both exploit and complement the expertise and research programs of current groups. For this particular call, we encourage candidates with strong programs in mechanism-based investigations and translational perspectives.

Application deadline: January 31st 2022 at 23.59 CET

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.

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 .

PostDoc or PhD Position in the Henriksson Lab

Understanding CAR T cells through machine learning and advanced bioinformatics

Johan Henriksson, a MIMS group leader, is currently seeking a postdoctoral researcher or PhD student to dissect T cell regulation using single-cell methods and CRISPR screening. While the overall goal is to develop CAR T-cell technology, this position is geared towards sharpening our analysis methods. Of particular interest include better statistics for CRISPR-UMI pooled screens, gene regulation (ATAC-seq, HiC) and gene isoforms (RNA-seq).

Candidates who are strong in any of computer science, mathematics, statistics or machine learning are encouraged to apply. An interest in learning biology is essential and some basic insight will already help plenty. An overview of what we do, and contact information, can be found at http://henlab.org/