GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE (GRC) and associated GORDON RESEARCH SEMINAR (GRS) on Cilia, Mucus, and Mucociliary Interactions– SAVE THE DATE
RS: February 16-17, 2019, Barga, Italy GRC: February 17-22, 2019, Barga, Italy Dear all, We would like to invite you to attend the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Cilia, Mucus, and Mucociliary Interactions. In 2019, the GRC will be held in conjunction with the “Cilia, Mucus & Mucociliary Interactions” … Continued
Two scientific staff positions available at Friedrich Schiller University-Jena in the Mittag and Sasso labs
Please see the two attached job postings: Mittag lab position Sasso lab position
International Conference on Microbial Photosynthesis
The International Conference on Microbial Photosynthesis, taking place in beautiful Vancouver from August 9-12, 2018. It should be particularly interesting for Chlamydomonas researchers studying any aspect of photosynthesis or related processes, as well as researchers working on other eukaryotic algal groups such as diatoms. Check out our website at http://isprvancouver.com This conference is sponsored by … Continued
PhD position at the University of Liège (Belgium)
Title ReACTs: Organellar Redox Signaling in Plants (Retrograde Arabidopsis Chlamydomonas Thiol Signaling) A 4-year PhD position is available for the project described below in the laboratory of Genetics and Physiology of Microalgae (ULiege, Belgium). The position is open from 1st January 2018. People interested should send their CV and motivation letter to Claire Remacle, email: … Continued
The 18th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas – Website Now Available
https://www.chlamy2018.com/ The 18th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas will be held from June 17-21, 2018 in Washington DC. We look forward to seeing all of you there. The venue will be the historic Carnegie Institution headquarters located in the heart of DC at 1530 P Street NW. To learn more … Continued
PhD position in the Maria Mittag laboratory within the frame of the International Leibniz Research School (ILRS) in Jena, Germany
Job description (PDF) The Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute – in cooperation with the Friedrich Schiller University, the University Hospital Jena and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology are offering an international graduate training programme. The International Leibniz Research School (ILRS Jena) gives doctoral researchers the … Continued
Position for a Professorship of the Faculty of Biological Sciences of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, in Synthetic Biology of Photosynthetic Organisms
Job description (PDF) The Faculty of Biological Sciences of Friedrich Schiller University is recruiting a Professor of Synthetic Biology of Photosynthetic Organisms (salary scale W1). It is preferable for a young scientist (postdoctoral stage) working with microalgae such as Chlamydomonas and can be tenured. The position is tenable from 2019. We are looking for a highly … Continued
Three plant biology postdoc positions in the newly founded Westlake Institute for Advanced Study
Dr. Xiaobo Li’s Lab at the Westlake Institute for Advanced Study (Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China) has three postdoc positions to start during 2018. One of them can be a senior research associate position if the incumbent already had postdoc working experience. The lab’s research interests include photosynthesis, abiotic stresses, plastid evolution, and systems and synthetic … Continued
Gene Disruption in Chlamydomonas – Plasmids now available
Andre Greiner and colleagues in Peter Hegemann’s lab have just had a manuscript accepted for publication in Plant Cell reporting some exciting advances in using Zinc Finger Nucleases (ZFNs) and CRISPR/cas9 to knockout genes of interest in Chlamydomonas. Here is a link to the manuscript before publication. Andre Greiner has set up the twitter account (#ChlamyCRISPR) … Continued
Postdoctoral researcher position at Louisiana State University
A postdoctoral research position is available in the laboratory of Terry M. Bricker for the study of: 1) ROS production sites in the cytochrome b6f complex and Photosystem I, and/or, 2) the protein composition and structural properties of PS II assembly factors in higher plants. These questions will be addressed by high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry, … Continued