2019/01/10

12 PhD Open Positions “La Caixa” INPhINIT Incoming Fellowship Programme

The doctoral fellowship programme INPhINIT “la Caixa” is devoted to attracting talented Early-Stage Researchers—of any nationality—who wish to pursue doctoral studies in research centres accredited with the Spanish Seal of Excellence. It is aimed at supporting the best scientific talent and fostering innovative and high-quality research in Spain by recruiting outstanding international students and offering them an attractive and competitive environment for conducting research of excellence.

PhD open positions offered at CIC bioGUNE:

• Understanding the mode of action of ribosome targeting antibiotics using cutting-edge cryo-EM methodologies: A path to discovering new clinically relevant antibiotics (Sean Connell and Paola Fucini)
• Townes-Brocks Syndrome: mechanisms of disease and cilia manipulation (Rosa Barrio)
• Targeting the interaction Gαi3-GIV to stop tumor invasion and metastasis (Francisco Blanco)
• Study of the molecular mechanisms involved in the spontaneous misfolding of prion protein/Predoctoral position at Prion biology laboratory at CIC bioGUNE (Joaquín Castilla)
• Role of retrotransposition in Schwann cell development and pathology (Ashwin Woodhoo)
• Mechanisms of adaptation (Arkaitz Carracedo)
• Improving human and animal welfare through structure-function studies of emerging viral threats. (Nicola Abrescia)
• GLYCONCOLOGYNMR: Breaking the limits in understanding tumour-related Glycan recognition by NMR (Jesús Jiménez-Barbero)
• Conformational analysis of synthetic saponin vaccine adjuvants by NMR spectroscopy for molecular-level mechanistic elucidation at the chemistry-immunology frontier (Alberto Fernández-Tejada)
• Chemoenzymatic glycoengineering of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (Marcelo E. Guerin)
• CARBOHYDRINCELLNMR: Breaking the limits in Carbohydrate recognition by NMR: In-cell NMR (Jesús Jiménez-Barbero)
• Angiogenesis and NEDDylation (PhD Position In Liver Disease Laboratory/CIC bioGUNE) (Maria L Martínez-Chantar)

Download the description of the projects HERE.
Deadline: 06 February, 2019
Contact directly with Principal Investigator or Itziar Gil de la Pisa.
For more information about requirements for applicants or application procedure follow this link.