Your key responsibility is to develop and complete a doctoral dissertation within the confines of the research group in one of the three themes described above. Doctoral students are expected to publish and disseminate their research findings in close co-operation with the other members of the research group.

Research at the Department of Molecular Biology includes a wide range of molecular biology fields in science and medicine: cell biology, microbiology, infectious biology, tumor biology and neurobiology, as well as genetic model organisms (but not plants). We are now looking for a postdoctoral fellow in bacterial physiology and pathogenesis in the project "Biogenesis, regulation and function of the type III secretion system" funded by the Swedish Research Council. The position is full-time for two years and expected to begin on April 1st, 2021 or by agreement. The deadline for applications is February 12th, 2021.

The Central European Institute of Technology – Masaryk University (CEITEC MU) is an independent university institute that was established at Masaryk University as part of a scientific centre of excellence, CEITEC – Central European Institute of Technology. CEITEC MU represents a key part of the state-of-the-art research infrastructure that is equipped with cutting-edge facilities and excellent conditions for fundamental, as well as applied research, especially in the area of life sciences. Our institute’s modern building can be found at the University Campus in Brno-Bohunice.

The recent breakthrough research from Umeå University include deciphering the molecular mechanisms of the bacterial CRISPR-Cas9 system and repurposing it into a tool for genome editing, a method developed at Umeå university that was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020.