The Nanoscopy division of the Maastricht Multimodal Molecular Imaging institute (M4I) at the University of Maastricht is looking for a PhD candidate in Structural Biology of Tuberculosis
JOB DESCRIPTION
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. Even though TB is curable, about one and a half million people succumb to it every year. Current treatments are long and with side effects: the need for new antibiotics and vaccines is obvious.
We aim to understand how gene products or proteins work within their cellular environment in health and disease. Our institute houses a state of the art cryo-Light Microscopy/Electron Microscopy correlative workflow from cellular localization, milling with focused ion beam (FIB-SEM), down to cryo-electron tomography, subvolume averaging and image processing to study how these nano-machines work under native conditions.
We seek a talented PhD candidate to join our interdisciplinary team. Our biology research focuses on unraveling, controlling and tempering the pathogenicity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at a molecular level. The applicant will apply biochemistry to purify and characterize molecular players in isolation. The structural characterization will be mainly done by single particle analysis.
PhD Job Title: Structural insight in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis pathogenicity.
PhD advisers: Peter J. Peters and Raimond Ravelli
Organisation Unit: Nanoscopy division of the Maastricht Multimodal Molecular Imaging institute (M4I).
See the details of this position here:
https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/311281/phd-candidate-in-structural-biology-of-tuberculosis-institute-m4i-division-nanoscopy-faculty-of-health-medicine-and-life-sciences/
For more information about this position please contact:
Peter Peters, mail to: pj.peters@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Raimond Ravelli, mail to: rbg.ravelli@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Carmen López-Iglesias, mail to: c.lopeziglesias@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Make sure to apply no later than 11 May 2022 23:58 (Europe/Amsterdam) by pressing the button ‘apply now’ on the following link:
https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/311281/phd-candidate-in-structural-biology-of-tuberculosis-institute-m4i-division-nanoscopy-faculty-of-health-medicine-and-life-sciences/