We are always looking for talented diploma students. If you are considering a diploma thesis within the next 6-12 months pls. apply with a full CV, graduation certificates from high school and a current list summary of your university grades.
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We are offering a positon for:
Research Assistant
Your task will be to develop together with internal and external partners novel lab-on-a-chip devices for biological applications.
Your profile: You hold a degree in chemistry or related areas and preferentially have experience/expertise in microfluidics, surface chemistry and micro-/nanostructuring of substrates with biological molecules. A keen interest in applying these technologies to biological assays and building up competence in this field is required. Your ability to cooperate with research groups and external partners is a prerequisite.
We offer an environment of cutting-edge technologies in an excellently equipped research laboratory. Embedded in a young, lively and international research team you will have the opportunity to acquire expertise in lab-on-a-chip based bioanalysis and to participate in exciting research projects.
Pls. send your application with graduation certificates, references and including a cover letter detailing your motivation for applying and availability to
Diploma Thesis: visualizing intracellular protein trafficking
We are seeking for an enthusiastic diploma student who is interested in the following research area:
Vesicular trafficking is a fundamental biological process involved in protein, lipid and nutrient transport to different organelles or destinations as well as in cellular signalling events. Misregulation of protein targeting has been widely implicated in the development of disease states such as cancer. We are interested in cell surface targeting and secretion of different cargos with an emphasis on revealing the molecular mechanism of how intracellular trafficking of secreted cargo is regulated.
Plasma membrane fusion of a protein of interest (movie available).
In addition to fundamental questions addressed we are interested in developing techniques that could help to understand basic biological processes in the trafficking field. This involves imaging methods such as visualizing fusion events at the apical membrane of polarized cells.
Your task will be establishing cell lines of chimeric proteins and testing these clones with microscopy and cellular fractionation. You are ideally educated as a biologist with a strong background in molecular and cellular biology.
