PostDoc positions
Postdoc position in Chronomicrobiology (Circadian Biology and Microbiology)
We are hiring a post doctoral scientist to join our international ERC Synergy-funded team of chronomicrobiologists, representing a new field that bridges microbiology and circadian biology. This project follows up on our novel discovery of a circadian clock in Bacillus subtilis, a finding that opens a new frontier in these fields. This position, based at LMU Munich, concerns cracking the molecular mechanism of the B. subtilis clock as well as describing the clock according to chronobiological formalisms.
The scientist will use the outstanding toolkit afforded by B. subtilis to perform a genome-wide mutant screen. The work will be performed in close collaboration across the Synergy team, which includes partners at Leiden University (Netherlands) and The John Innes Centre (United Kingdom), thus requiring international travel and social skills consistent with cooperative working arrangements. The scientist will learn chronobiological principles and experimentation, and will play a key part of discovering this novel clock mechanism.