Highly self-motivated scientists are invited to apply for an FGSPB-funded doctoral candidate position affiliated with the group led by Docent Jing Li.
Project description:
-Deciphering molecular mechanisms linking growth and development into innate immunity in plants using mordern genetic tools in combination with biochemical, physilogical and pathological approaches. The successful candidate will have access to a variety of techniques available in my lab including high-throughput genetic screening, living-cell imaging, transcriptome and protein profiling, in vivo protein complex isolation, DNA-protein and protein-protein interaction assays, chromatin immunopecipitation (ChIP) and its genome-wide application ChIP-SEQ.
Applicants eligible: -with a university degree at MSc or equivalent level in biochemistry or molecular/cell biology -Team player with execellent communication skills -Proficiency in English -Previous experience with plant biology not required
Do not hesitate to contact me for further details before 30 July, 2011.
Jing Li (PhD) Docent Division of Genetics P.O. Box 56 (Viikinkaari 5D) Department of Biosciences Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences FI-00014 University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland