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The Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University (www.igp.uu.se) has a broad research profile with strong research groups focused on cancer, autoimmune and genetic diseases. A fundamental idea at the department is to stimulate translational research and thereby closer interactions between medical research and health care. Research is presently conducted in the following areas: medical and clinical genetics, clinical immunology, pathology, neuro-oncology, vascular biology, radiation science and molecular tools. Department activities are also integrated with the units for Oncology, Clinical Genetics, Clinical Immunology, Clinical Pathology, and Hospital Physics at Akademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala. The department has teaching assignments in several education programmes, including Master Programmes, at the Faculty of Medicine, and in a number of educations at the Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology. The department has a yearly turnover of around SEK 420 million, out of which more than half is made up of external funding. The staff amounts to approximately 345 employees, out of which 100 are PhD-students, and there are in total more than 700 affiliated people.

Work description:
The role will require conceptualisation, performance and analysis of experiment for research projects in zebrafish lymphatic development. 

The candidate will be required to performe experiments using the following techniues:
- molecular biology (cloning, gel electrophoresis, western blotting, cloning, RT-qPCR)
- generation and maintenance of zebrafish stock (including genotyping)
- generation of new zebrafish lines (using CRISPR, Tol2)
- microinjection and microdissections (including lymphangiogram and angiogram).
- Histological techniques (immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridisation
- Microscopy, Imaging and data processing (confocal, fluorescent brightfield, Fiji, IMARIS)
- RNA and ATAC sequencing sample preparation (single cell and bulk)
- Cell culture (cell lines maintenance, siRNA knockdown)

Qualifications:
The candidate is required to have a PhD degree in Developmental biology, or similar and previous postdoctoral experience working with zebrafish and lymphangiogensis.

Be familiar with working in team and share expertise and knowledge with other members of the team, able to give advice to others, based on previous experience and take on lab responsibilities.

Be capable on working individually, organise and keep up to speed with daily experimental plans.

Be familiar with working in team and share expertise and knowledge with other members of the team. Taking on lab responsibilities and ability to give advice to others based on previous experience is important. Together with capability to working individually, organise and perform all the experimental plans within agreed deadlines.

Other merits:
Animal licence/ethics – courses completed
Speak fluent English
Completed course in next generation sequencing data analysis

Salary: Individual salary.

Starting date: 01-10-2020 or as otherwise agreed.

Type of employment: Temporary position ending 31-07-2021.

Scope of employment: 100 %

For further information about the position please contact: Kaska Koltowska, kaska.koltowska@igp.uu.se.

Please submit your application by August 28, 2020, UFV-PA 2020/2747.