Train2Target: 2 ESR Positions, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action 1453 views

Train2Target is an integrated multidisciplinary approach towards a new generation of antibiotics: Targeting function and cross-talk of bacterial envelope protein machineries. Train2Target is a multidisciplinary European Training Network funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. Each ESR position in Train2Target allows the researcher to work towards a PhD.

ESR 1

Project: Dissecting lipopolysaccharide transport and assembly at the outer membrane

Requirements:

• Applicant must hold M.Sc. (or equivalent graduation) in Biology, Biochemistry or related area and are interested in multi-disciplinary research.
• Applicants must not yet have been awarded Doctoral degree and must be in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent) of their research careers prior to the recruitment.
• Applicant must not have stayed or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Italy for more than a year in the 3 years immediately prior to the recruitment.

Start date: 1 June 2017

Closing date: 28 March 2017

Institute: Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milano, Italy

ESR 2

Project: Characterization the LptF/C/A subcomplex and its binding to LPS at atomic scale.

Requirements:

• Applicant must hold MSc. (or equivalent graduation) in relevant area like structural biology, biochemistry.
• Applicant must provide proof of English proficiency as communication and teaching language throughout Train2Target is English.
• Applicant must have spent more than 12 months in France during the last three years.
• Applicants must not yet been awarded Doctoral degree and must be in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent) of their research careers prior to the recruitment.

Start date: 1 July 2017

Closing date: 15 May 2017

Institute: Institut de Biologie Structurale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

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