RNA-binding proteins in virus infection and cancer
How does HIV infection occur? This molecular animation depicts the process of how HIV infects a T CD4 lymphocyte l and transforms the cell into a viral factory.
Credits:
Animated and narrated by Janet Iwasa (Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah)
Music written and performed by Joshua Roman
Music recorded by Jesse Lewis (Immersive Music Project)
Our colleagues from the Gallego lab in Barcelona, are now recruiting a Postdoc and a PhD position.
Oriol Gallego works at the interface between Cell Biology and Structural Biology, and aims to resolve biological mechanisms driving cell growth. His group develop new intracellular nanotools that help to enhance the resolutive power of live-cell imaging. This toolbox allows to answer biological questions that could not be tackled by other means. They have a brand new lab and equipment. The Gallego lab is based PRBB, an excellent research center in Barcelona, which is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and with a highly international scientific environment.
They seek for a Postdoc with expertise in quantitative live-cell microscopy (ideally, a microscopist with background in biophysics, optical physics or image analysis) and a PhD student (background in life-sciences, ideally with expertise in biophysics, biochemistry, structural biology or bioinformatics) to join our lab. Please, see the links for more details on the Postdoc and the PhD positions and visit www.gallegolab.org.
This scholarship will allow you to work in a multidisciplinary team between Prof. Ilan Davis (Microscopy and brain development), Alfredo Castello (RNA biology and viruses) and Martin Booth (Industrial partner Aurox.ltd).
Combining these expertise, we will build an affordable very fast confocal microscope with a small footprint, dedicated to prolonged live cell imaging of explanted brains in 3D, as well as to rapid 3D imaging of multiple single RNA molecules. Once built the microscope will have many applications. Depending on the background of the student, the work will involve a balance of optical engineering / biological experiments / data analysis. The student will have access to world leading training and collaborations through Micron Oxford to all the relevant expertise required for these three disciplines.
Our colleague, Claudia Ribeiro, is seeking for a motivated postdoc to work to work in the Babraham Institute (Cambridge) on the role of RNA-binding proteins in B lymphocyte development. For more information about the post visit here.
Our colleague Bruno Galy is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to work on cancer metabolism, more precisely to define how iron metabolism influences tumourigenesis. He is looking for a talented and highly motivated candidates in your entourage. Find more about this job here.
