Postdoc in Single-cell Genomics of Human Development

The University of Gothenburg tackles society’s challenges with diverse knowledge. 58 000 students and 6800 employees make the university a large and inspiring place to work and study. Strong research and attractive study programmes attract researchers and students from around the world. With new knowledge and new perspectives, the University contributes to a better future.

The Guibentif lab is looking to recruit a post-doctoral fellow. We are a European Research Council-funded lab, applying single-cell profiling towards establishing novel pluripotent stem cell-based platforms for the study of human embryonic development and disease.

We are affiliated to the University of Gothenburg (GU), one of the largest universities in Northern Europe. Given our affiliation to the Institute of Biomedicine and to the Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research, we are part of a supportive interdisciplinary environment, comprising basic developmental biologists as well as clinical scientists.

The Institute of Biomedicine is involved in both research and education. In both of these areas, we focus on fundamental knowledge of the living cell – what it consists of, how it works, how its function is directed by the genetic material, and how it interacts with various kinds of micro-organisms. Using this knowledge, we try to elucidate the causes of diseases, and find new ways to diagnose and treat them.

The Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research is a joint venture between the GU Faculty of Medicine and the Sahlgrenska University Hospital focused on cancer translational research.

The overall goal of this project is to bridge current in vitro models of human embryonic development with the latest progress in developmental hematopoiesis studied in vivo. This will lead to new platforms to study molecular mechanisms of embryonic development.

We harness single-cell genomics and advanced experimental models to determine to what extent in vitro stem cell systems mimic the variety of molecular programmes underlying the emergence of hematopoietic cells at multiple anatomical locations and timepoints in the developing embryo

The selected candidate will be working in a cross-disciplinary team, and will apply computational biology approaches to analyse high-throughput next generation sequencing data for uncovering novel drivers of mammalian embryonic development. The selected candidate will be expected to contribute to co-supervision of younger colleagues, to manuscript writing and will be expected to present their work regularly at group and department meetings.