University Assistant - Wien, Österreich - Universität Wien

Universität Wien

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Wien, Österreich

vor 1 Woche

Geschrieben von:

Anna Müller

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Beschreibung

The University of Vienna (20 faculties and centres, 184 fields of study, approx members of staff, about students) seeks to fill the position from of a

University Assistant (prae doc)

at

the

Department of Biological Chemistry

Reference number:

14169
The Department of Biological Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry announces a position for a university assistant (prae-doc) on the topic of developing chemical tools for investigating microbial interactions (research group Microbial Biochemistry, Böttcher lab)

Further Information:

The advertised position is associated with the newly established professorship of Microbial Biochemistry bridging the Faculty of Chemistry and the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science.

The employment is initially limited to 10 months.

Duration of employment: 10 month/s

Extent of Employment: 30 hours/week

Job grading in accordance with collective bargaining agreement: -48 VwGr. B1 Grundstufe (praedoc) with relevant work experience determining the assignment to a particular salary grade.

We are currently looking for a highly talented and highly motivated PhD student (prae-doc) with a strong background in Synthetic Chemistry, and Chemical Biology to join our Microbial Biochemistry Research Group at the University of Vienna.

In our research group we explore chemical strategies for the customized modulation of bacterial population behavior with the goal of selectively interfering and controlling growth, motility, virulence and species interactions of human pathogens and commensals.

We also investigate the chemical interactions of commensal and pathogenic bacteria as well as the chemistry of microbe-human interactions and aim to exploit the potential of the privileged structures of natural products by synthetic organic chemistry.

We hereby focus mainly on novel anti-infective compounds including inhibitors of virulence and specific pathogenesis-associated targets as well as species selective antibiotics.

Our vision is to develop customized chemical tools to selectively target viability, virulence and behavior of individual species in a complex microbiome which would open the possibility of chemical microbiome engineering in the future.

Duties and responsibilities of the successful applicant will include, but are not limited to:

Participation and implementation of research projects on the aforementioned topics with the possibility of writing a dissertation
Design and synthesis of bacterial natural products
Elucidation of biosynthetic mechanisms
Biological assay development
Preparation of research reports, manuscripts for publications and oral presentations
Supervision and training of students and staff members
Support with administrative tasks
Participation in teaching and independent teaching of courses as defined by the collective agreement
Involvement in the organisation of meetings, conferences, symposiums
Involvement in the department administration as well as in teaching and research administration

Profile:

Completed degree (Master) in chemistry, life sciences, biochemistry, molecular biology pharmacology, microbiology, or similar.

Excellent command of written and spoken English, very good organization skills, precision and diligence in laboratory work, highest level of motivation, excellent teamwork skills.

Letter of motivation including research interests, Academic curriculum vitae, List of publications, evidence of teaching (if available) -Degree certificates

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