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The postdoctoral fellowship supported by the stipend from Kempe Foundation is available to study cell wall of the wood cells in Ewa Mellerowicz’s lab at UPSC, Sweden.
Applications are considered until the position is filled.
Plant cell walls are protecting the protoplasts, regulating cell shape, and providing tissue strength. They are also involved in signalling used to coordinate development and adjust cell wall biosynthesis, but the components of these signalling networks are not well understood, especially in cells depositing secondary walls. We are studying the roles of hemicelluloses in wood cell wall biology. We have a battery of transgenic aspen lines in which the structure of the main hemicellulose - xylan - was specifically engineered using fungal enzymes. This project is aiming at identifying changes in wood cell wall chemistry induced by the altered xylan structure.
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