The successful candidate will use molecular biology, cell biology and/or biochemistry techniques to drive a creative and original research program that is complementary to the on-going interests in the Department. This research should be at the highest national and international levels for which the incumbent is expected to secure external funding. This full-time position will involve undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in the broad field of molecular biology, as well as supervising Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral Theses. He/She will also take up administrative and organizational duties within the Department of Molecular Biology and the Faculty of Sciences.
The 36th Weigle Lecture will be given on Thursday, March 28, 2019 by Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, Director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany.
Time and place: 5:00 pm, Auditorium A300 of Sciences II, 30, Quai Ernest Ansermet.
The Weigle Lecture will be followed by an apero.
Host: Thanos Halazonetis.
The Department of Molecular Biology faculty invites applications from students wishing to carry out research work in our laboratories. Selected students will join the PhD School of Life Sciences at the Faculties of Medicine and Science (https://lifesciencesphd.unige.ch/).
Information about the next round of applications will be posted in early April 2019.
Our department belongs to the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Geneva. We are one of the oldest molecular biology departments in the world, where restriction enzymes were first discovered - Nobel prize 1978 - and where electron microscopy of biological materials was developed - Nobel prize 2017 (see History).
The research activities of the Department of Molecular Biology address several important areas of molecular and cellular biology, such as tumor suppression and responses to DNA damage and DNA replication stress, the signalling pathways that orchestrate eukaryote cell growth, the regulation of gene expression by non-coding RNAs, telomere function and gene silencing in yeast, nucleosome organization and kinetochore function, retina development, structural studies of cell cycle regulators and signaling factors.
One of the strengths of the department is to harbor such a wide range of research interests, which often leads to fertile interactions between members of the different research units. That this strategy has been sucessful is shown by the various awards given to different department members:
In addition to the awards listed above, three members of our faculty are currently funded in part by ERC grants. Two of these are Consolidator grants and one is an Advanced grant.
Our University scores consistently high on various rankings of European Universities. For example, on the ranking from Leiden University , the University of Geneva is on 14th place.
The department is very proud of its doctoral school. Ph.D. students receive an excellent theoretical and practical education in biomedical research, and have a regular opportunity to present their research work in a weekly departmental seminar series (see Ph.D. program).