瑞典于默奥大学2024年招聘博士后（生命科学博士后项目）

于默奥大学（瑞典语：Umeå universitet），建立于1965年，位于瑞典王国中北部西博滕省（Västerbotten）首府于默奥。是瑞典境内建校历史排名第五悠久的综合类研究型大学，瑞日Mirai项目成员。

Excellence by Choice Postdoctoral Programme in Life Science

Umeå University (KBC)

Location

Umeå, Sweden

Salary

Competitive

Closing date

8 Sep 2024

The ‘EC’ Postdoctoral Fellows will:

Develop a collaborative project under supervision of at least two PIs

Obtain 2-year full-time fellowship exempt from tax (672,000 SEK), as well as a contribution to career development cost (25,000 SEK)

Access to UCMR/UPSC-affiliated core facilities and technical platforms such as Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden (CBCS), Protein Expertise Platform, metabolomics, proteomics, X-ray, NMR (850-400 MHz), the Computational Life Science Cluster (CLiC) – a node in NBIS (National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden), Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM), and Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU) that form a node in the National Microscopy Infrastructure (NMI). Research infrastructures at Umeå University

Be offered with opportunities to participate in career development activities aiming at developing soft skills and at strengthening networks and collaborations in academics and industry.

Involve in a strong postdoc community; the Umeå Postdoc Society (UPS) fosters networking, and organizes social and career development events.

In addition, the ‘EC’ postdoctoral project is supported with a grant to cover running costs (320,000 SEK).

Learn more about life as an ‘EC’ postdoc:

Featured article in Nature: Big ideas welcome: postdoc call in Sweden seeks original thinkers

Read interviews with current ‘EC’ postdocs on the Umeå University website:

Gabriel Torrens, Joram Kiriga Waititu, Samuel Agyei Nyantakyi, Jagadish Mangu, Aicha Kriia, Dhruv Agrawal, Baptiste Bogard, and Adrien Heymans.

List of projects:

Candidates are encouraged to consider one of the project ideas listed. The candidates' merits and motivation for choice of project idea will be assessed by the PIs of each project respectively.

1. Investigating the role of bacterial membrane vesicles in modulating enteric virus infections

Main PI: Annasara Lenman, Department of Clinical Microbiology, UCMR, UMU

Co-PI: Sun Nyunt Wai, Department of Molecular Biology, UCMR, UMU

2. The effect of temperature stress on the cell wall-plasma membrane continuum

Main PI: Petra Marhava, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU

Co-PI: Laura Bacete, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, UMU

3. Chemosensory Mechanisms Mediating Host-Parasite Interactions in Parasitic Nematodes

Main PI: Changchun Chen, Department of Molecular Biology, UCMR, UMU

Co-PI: Peter Marhavý, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU

4. T cell-independent B-cell memory; kinetics and cues for generation of B memory- and plasma cells to Francisella tularensis LPS

Main PI: Mattias Forsell, Department of Clinical Microbiology, UCMR, UMU

Co-PI: Anders Sjöstedt, Department of Clinical Microbiology, UCMR, UMU

5. Mapping the ultrastructure of Chlamydia’s parasitophorous vacuole

Main PI: Barbara Susanne Sixt, Department of Molecular Biology, UCMR, UMU

Co-PI: Max Renner, Department of Chemistry, UCMR, UMU

6. Biophysical investigations of endothelial glycocalyx degradation during viral diseases

Main PI: Marta Bally, Department of Clinical Microbiology, UCMR, UMU

Co-PI: Anne-Marie Fors Connolly, Department of Clinical Microbiology, UCMR, UMU

7. Microbial chemical production via synthetic biology

Main PI: Yaowen Wu, Department of Chemistry, UCMR, UMU

Co-PI: Anita Sellstedt, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, UMU

Qualification

To qualify as a postdoctoral fellowship holder, the candidate is required to have completed a doctoral degree or a foreign degree deemed equivalent to a doctoral degree. This qualification requirement is usually fulfilled after successfully completing all the requirements of the doctoral programme, including passing their dissertation defence.

Candidates should have completed their doctoral degree, no more than three years before the closing date of the application. If there are special reasons, candidates who completed their degree prior to that may also be eligible. Special reasons include absence due to illness, parental leave, appointments of trust in trade union organizations, military service, or similar circumstances, as well as clinical practice or other forms of appointment/assignment relevant to the subject area.

Candidates who have worked in the lab of the main PI or Co-PI during their PhD and postdoc are not eligible.

Application

The application should include:

A Curriculum Vitae

A motivation letter including research interests, qualifications, and motivation for applying for the position with the specific project idea selected from the list (max 2,000 characters with space)

A publication list including both published papers and preprints with web/DOI

A description of up to a total three (3) of your publications and/or preprints that you consider at present to represent your scientifically most valuable work, answering the following questions (max 3,000 characters with space):

a. Why you consider a particular publication to be the scientifically most valuable?

b. What was your specific contribution(s) to this published research work?

c. What was your role in the manuscript writing and publishing of the work?

Names and contact details of at least two references

A verified copy of doctoral degree certificate or documentation that attests completing all the requirements of the doctoral programme, including passing the dissertation defense. If not available at time of submission, a proof of completion of the doctoral degree must be submitted at the latest together with the pre-interview project plan (early November, see step 2 below).

Step 1:

The application must be submitted electronically. For more details of each project and link to the online application system, please go to the Umeå University website.

Online application deadline: 8 September 2024.

Step 2:

A short list of candidates will be invited to submit a short research proposal based on the project idea and to participate in the final interview. The interviews are performed by a panel of UCMR and UPSC researchers.

Date of final interview: 20-21 November 2024.