瑞士苏黎世大学招收细胞生物学/基因组学方向博士后

瑞士苏黎世大学招收细胞生物学/基因组学方向博士后

Department of Molecular Life Sciences Pelkmans Lab

Postdoctoral position

90 %

The laboratory of Prof. Lucas Pelkmans at the University of Zurich is looking for a postdoctoral fellow. The postdoctoral position will be funded for two years by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Your responsibilities

The candidate will be responsible for building a temporal and spatial atlas of multiple organs from the same human individual over a developmental time course. Applied technologies will involve multiplexed imaging of protein states and transcripts in tissue sections by 4i and single-molecule FISH, combined with advanced image processing and data-driven modeling to quantify spatiotemporal tissue organization during human fetal development.

Your profile

For this position, we are looking for a highly motivated individual with a PhD in quantitative cell biology/single-cell genomics, with a strong affinity for imaging, image-processing and data-driven modeling/advanced statistics. Proficient in Python/R/MatLab is highly recommended. The candidate should have excellent communication and networking skills.

What we offer

The successful candidate will be embedded in a highly active multidisciplinary research environment that applies large-scale quantitative imaging in the field of systems biology.

Place of work

University of Zurich Department of Molecular Life Sciences Pelkmans Lab Winterthurerstrasse 190 8057 Zürich

Start of employment

September 1st 2020

Please send applications, including a CV, description of research interests and motivation, future career goals, and two reference letters, one from the PhD supervisor goals, as a single PDF before the 15th of August 2020, electronically to Lucas Pelkmans lucas.pelkmans@mls.uzh.ch.