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.
Are you interested in joining us? Please have a look below for currently open job opportunities. You are also always welcome to contact our principal investigators directly if you are interested in working with them.
We are looking for a highly motivated scientist with a keen interest in developmental biology on vascular development to work on a postdoctoral scholarship in Hannele Tuominen's group at Umeå Plant Science Centre. The postdoc is going to be placed at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, which is part of Umeå Plant Science Centre.
Last day to apply: 31 July 2024
Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) is a research centre in Umeå, Sweden where research of both basic and strategic importance is conducted on all organization levels of the plant with a common goal to understand the plant as a complex organism in dynamic interaction with its environment.
Project description
Secondary growth of plants is formed by the meristematic tissues of the vascular cambium. While the regulation of cambial activity is increasingly understood, the mechanisms that regulate initiation of the vascular cambium are largely unknown. Vascular cambium is induced in the stem by formation and fusion of the fascicular cambium and the interfascicular cambium, the latter seemingly forming from completely undifferentiated cells. It is possible that signals from the primary vascular bundles are involved in initiation of the cambium but other factors, such as tissue mechanics, cannot be excluded.
We have previously conducted high-resolution transcriptomic analyses of stem tissues of aspen trees, which has resulted in identification of tissue-specific gene expression patterns and co-expression networks (Sundell et al., Plant Cell 29: 1585-1604; Jokipii-Lukkari S et al., New Phytologist 216:482-494). The current project aims to elucidate initiation of cambium in aspen trees with improved spatial resolution. Transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses will be performed in single cells and in specific tissues isolated by laser capture microdissection (LCM), accompanied by analysis of the mechanical properties in stem tissues initiating secondary growth.
A 2-year postdoctoral stipend is available in Stéphanie Robert's research group at Umeå Plant Science Centre. The postdoc is going to be placed at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and will join of the project "Dissection of the cell fate acquisition mechanisms in plants" that is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
Application deadline: August 10, 2024
Project description
Cell division and cell fate determination are critical for the development of multicellular organisms. In mammals, cell fate is determined primarily by cell-lineage processes, but little is known about the mechanisms that determine cell fate in plants. Although positional information is suggested to play a key regulatory role, what constitutes such information and how it is processed by plant cells remain ill defined. We are interested in the characterization of molecular components involved in Fate determination of hair and non-hair cells in Arabidopsis thaliana roots.
Umeå University and SciLifeLab are seeking a Systems Developer to work within a newly established unit at SciLifeLab, Training Hub.
Last day to apply: August 14, 2024
SciLifeLab, Science for Life Laboratory, is a national center for molecular biosciences in Sweden, developing and maintaining unique research infrastructure, services, and data resources for life science research. SciLifeLab's primary goal is to enable groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research and promote the application of research for the benefit of society. Approximately 200 research groups, 1,500 researchers, and 40 national infrastructure units are connected to SciLifeLab, spanning all major Swedish universities.
The Training Hub is a new initiative from SciLifeLab responsible for providing training services, support, and resources in technology- and data-driven lifelong learning. Our mission is national, and the vision is to enable SciLifeLab to offer high-quality and openly accessible learning resources, such as courses, materials, and other forms of lifelong learning. The Training Hub collaborates closely with various national and international research infrastructures and organizations.
We are now recruiting a system administrator, IT for our bioinformatic support unit. You will be employed at the Department of Plant Physiology which is part of the Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC). UPSC hosts close to 200 employees representing about 45 nationalities. The centre carries out research and postgraduate education in different fields of plant science, including ecology, biochemistry, plant physiology, molecular biology as well as genomics and genetics.
Last day to apply: August 15, 2024
Description
The research groups at UPSC are generating a vast amount of data that needs to be processed and analysed computationally, a task that they can get support for from the bioinformatics unit at UPSC (four persons). The platform, in addition to using the national computing infrastructure, has established a local computing environment (with about eight compute servers, a head node for the queueing system, and a server to host RStudio pro) all of which are connected to the same NFS storages and LDAP user management system. As a System Administrator, IT you will be a part of a newly formed bioinformatic support unit, in charge of maintaining the local computing infrastructure, as well as providing support to bioinformatic researchers at UPSC.
We are looking for an industry/collaboration-based PhD student in drought resistance biology. The doctoral studies will be performed at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, which is part of Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå. The employment will be with Sveaskog, where the PhD student will gain practical work experience. The doctoral student will be supervised by M. Rosario Garcia Gil (Main Supervisor, Senior Lecturer, SLU), Nathaniel Street (Umeå University), Fredrik Klang (Sveaskog), Oskar Skogström (Sveaskog) and Johanna Gårdebrink (Sveaskog).
Application deadline: August 19, 2024.
The Research School in Future Silviculture:
Sweden is a country where forests have been and still are of great importance. The use and utilization of the forest is an issue where the balance between forest production and the environment is in focus. Growth in Swedish forests has declined over the past 15 years. In order to both sustainably use and safeguard forest biodiversity, a coherent basic science research program is needed that addresses large and complex issues and develops new analytical tools. It is against this background that the Research School in Future Silviculture is established with a focus on the future sustainable use of forests. The Research School Future Silviculture is part of the Wallenberg Initiative in Forest Research (WIFORCE) at SLU and around 50 doctoral students will be admitted to the Research School. Would you like to make a difference for the future sustainable use of forests? Apply to join the Research School in Future Silviculture!
We are looking for an industry/collaboration-based PhD student in drought resistance breeding. The doctoral studies will be performed at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, which is part of Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå. The employment will be with the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden (Skogforsk), where the PhD student will gain practical work experience. The doctoral student will be supervised by Harry Wu (Main supervisor, Professor, SLU), Mats Berlin (Tree breeding Researcher, Skogforsk) and Johan Lindeberg (Senior Lecturer, Linnaeus University).
Application deadline: August 19, 2024.
The Research School in Future Silviculture:
Sweden is a country where forests have been and still are of great importance. The use and utilization of the forest is an issue where the balance between forest production and the environment is in focus. Growth in Swedish forests has declined over the past 15 years. In order to both sustainably use and safeguard forest biodiversity, a coherent basic science research program is needed that addresses large and complex issues and develops new analytical tools. It is against this background that the Research School in Future Silviculture is established with a focus on the future sustainable use of forests. The Research School Future Silviculture is part of the Wallenberg Initiative in Forest Research (WIFORCE) at SLU and around 50 doctoral students will be admitted to the Research School. Would you like to make a difference for the future sustainable use of forests? Apply to join the Research School in Future Silviculture!
We are looking for an industry/collaboration-based PhD student in forest genomics related to climate adaptation. The doctoral studies will be performed at the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, which is part of Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå. The employment will be with SCA, where the PhD student will gain practical work experience. The doctoral student will be supervised by Harry Wu (Main Supervisor, Professor, SLU), Henrik Hallingbäck (Tree breeder, Skogforsk) and Ola Kårén (Chief Forester, SCA).
Application deadline: August 19, 2024.
The Research School in Future Silviculture
Sweden is a country where forests have been and still are of great importance. The use and utilization of the forest is an issue where the balance between forest production and the environment is in focus. Growth in Swedish forests has declined over the past 15 years. In order to both sustainably use and safeguard forest biodiversity, a coherent basic science research program is needed that addresses large and complex issues and develops new analytical tools. It is against this background that the Research School in Future Silviculture is established with a focus on the future sustainable use of forests. The Research School Future Silviculture is part of the Wallenberg Initiative in Forest Research (WIFORCE) at SLU. Around 50 doctoral students will be admitted to the Research School. Would you like to make a difference for the future sustainable use of forests? Apply to join the Research School in Future Silviculture!
The Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, invites applicants for a PhD position in plant science in the research group of Jian-Feng Mao. The department is part of Umeå Plant Science Centre. The expected starting date is November 1, 2024 or according to agreement.
Application deadline: September 2, 2024
Project description
Ever advancing high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies continue to produce genome assemblies of larger genome sizes, such as conifers (10-40 Gb, 3-15x of human genome), wheat (15 Gb, 5x), axolotl salamander (32 Gb, 11x), and giant lungfish (43 Gb, 14x). Genome annotation (identifying various functional sequence elements) presents one big challenge in analyzing large genomes, for example, to identify transposable elements (TEs), major component of most plant genomes especially those large genomes. Deep-learning models (currently used for computer vision and natural language processing), which can encode high-dimensional genome sequences into vectors and learn and resolve the sequence complexity, offer promising solutions for efficient identifying sequence elements (such as TEs) from genome sequences.
A position as a Staff scientist in Computational Metabolomics at the Department of Plant Physiology, which is part of Umeå Plant Science Centre, is now available.
Last day to apply: September 2, 2024
Job Description
This position is part of our national support team of experts in the SciLifeLab Metabolomics Platform (www.scilifelab.se/services/) that offers targeted and untargeted mass spectrometry-based measurements of small molecules, reflecting metabolites and exposures, catering to researchers within the life sciences and biomedicine. The position is co-funded by the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS; https://nbis.se) that constitutes the Bioinformatics Platform at SciLifeLab, a national resource that provides advanced technologies and technical know-how in molecular biosciences.
We are now expanding our capacity to support life science researchers in metabolomics to transform complex data into meaningful biological and chemical interpretations. The successful applicant will be integrated in a national Computational Metabolomics Group jointly between the Metabolomics and NBIS Platforms. The work will offer excellent opportunities to further improve and develop skills to address application driven data science and bioinformatics challenges in metabolomics and also address multi-omics integration.
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