UPSC is a highly dynamic institute with around 200 employees, 30 principal investigators and about 10 associated principal investigators. Approximately half of our staff is non-Swedish and the working language is English. We recruit researchers from all over the world. More than 40 nations are represented at UPSC. Post-doctoral fellows have the most diverse nationalities, but also our PIs, graduate and undergraduate students represent many different nations.
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The Department of Plant Physiology at Umeå University that is part of Umeå Plant Science Centre invites applicants for a PhD position in plant science to join the research group of Stéphane Verger. The expected starting date is Fall 2025 or according to agreement.
Last day to apply: 26 June 2025
Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) is one of the strongest research environments for basic plant research in Europe. Research at UPSC covers a wide range of disciplines in plant biology including ecology, computational biology, genetics, physiology, biochemistry, cell biology and molecular biology.
Project description
This doctoral project focuses on exploring the molecular mechanisms underlying plant cell-cell adhesion. Cell-cell adhesion is a fundamental feature of multicellular organisms, but much remains to be discovered about how it works in plants. Our group has developed several tools allowing genetics, microscopic, micromechanical and computational dissection of this process (https://www.upsc.se/researchers/6177-verger-stephane-mechanics-and-dynamics-of-cell-to-cell-adhesion-in-plants.html).
The postdoctoral scholarship will be placed at the Department of Plant Physiology (Umeå University), that is part of Umeå Plant Science Centre. We seek a highly motivated candidate for this project in Jian-Feng Mao's research group.
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation (KAW) funds this two-year postdoctoral scholarship. The scholarship amounts to 348 000 SEK per year and is not subject to tax. The PI covers running costs for the project. The scholarship is full-time for two years with access during the fall of 2025 or according to agreement.
Last day to apply: 1 September 2025
Project description
What if we could decode the hidden language within plant genomes that controls their resilience to climate change, their growth patterns, and their ability to feed our growing population? Beyond the protein-coding genes we've traditionally studied lies an unexplored frontier of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) – mysterious genetic elements that don't create proteins but profoundly influence how plants develop and respond to their environment. Our research group has pioneered computational tools to identify these genetic elements, but we're now ready to make a quantum leap forward using the revolutionary power of artificial intelligence.
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