PhD student position at the Institute of Protein
Biochemistry, Ulm University (Germany),
Group Prof. Dr. M. Fändrich
The Institute of Protein Biochemistry (https://www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/nawi-pbc.html)
investigates the molecular basis of amyloid diseases, such as
Alzheimer's disease and systemic amyloidosis. We use a broad
range of techniques from protein biochemistry, structural
biology (in particular cryo-EM) to cell biology. Our strong ties
to several medical institutions enable us to uniquely link
structural biology with patient and animal samples. We seek for
new doctorate students with a very good Master degree in, for
example, Biochemistry, Chemistry or Physics to strengthen our
cryo-EM analysis of amyloid fibril structures. Projects may
involve protein purification and sample preparation, cryo-EM
imaging, single particle reconstruction, structural modelling
and the combination of structural and biological/medical data.
Recent
references:
Cryo-EM
fibril structures from systemic AA amyloidosis reveal the
species complementarity of pathological amyloids. Liberta F,
Loerch S, Rennegarbe M, Schierhorn A, Westermark P, Westermark
GT, Hazenberg BPC, Grigorieff N, Fändrich M, Schmidt M. Nature
Comm. 10, 1104 (2019)
Cryo-EM
structure of a light chain-derived amyloid fibril from a patient
with systemic AL amyloidosis. Radamaker, L,
Lin Y-H, Annamalai K, Huhn S, Hegenbart U, Schönland SO, Fritz
G, Schmidt M, Fändrich M. Nature Comm. 10, 1103 (2019)
If you are interested, please contact us under bewerbung-pbc(at)uni-ulm.de.
Incoming mails will be
viewed from August 31st 2019 onwards. Position will be filled as
soon as possible.
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