Postdoctoral Researcher at the Synthetic Biology laboratory

2026/01/12

CIC bioGUNE is looking for highly-motivated postdoctoral researcher to work in the ERC Synergy project RGNcestry: Tracing and harnessing the ancestry of RNA-guided nucleases, funded by the European Commission.

We are seeking candidates to fill two postdoctoral positions in ancestral sequence reconstruction and molecular evolution, combining computational phylogenetics with experimental laboratory validation. The successful candidate will contribute to the reconstruction of ancestral RNA-guided nucleases (RGNs) from large sequence datasets and perform laboratory experiments to characterize their evolutionary properties and functional roles.

The candidates will be part of a consortium including Botnar Institute for Immune Engineering (Switzerland), Columbia University (USA), Biofisika Institute (Spain), and CIC bioGUNE (Spain). Active participation in consortium activities (research, meetings, dissemination, student guidance) is expected.