SNP2Prot is currently recruiting postdoctoral and doctoral researchers for the first 45-months funding period starting in October 2024.
We offer an excellent scientific environment for interested scientists of different research fields: Plant Science, Protein Science and Computer Science
at contributing institutions in Germany:
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Halle (Saale)
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben
- Leipzig University, Leipzig
Each of the 17 projects of SNP2Prot is designed to combine expertise of two principal investigators (PIs) of complementary disciplines. This promising concept ensures that all candidates (PhD students and postdocs) benefit significantly from the interdisciplinary environment including scientific training in structural protein biochemistry, plant biology as well as computational science and bioinformatics and training of transferable skills. Furthermore, the unique and comprehensive mentoring is ideal to develop and actively realize individual career planning.
Take the opportunity and become part of the SNP2Prot team.
See all open positions here:
Detailed information on the offered position, the project and the PIs can be found under the respective links.
Project B02 - Allelic variation in the control of calcium-dependent protein kinase activity and function in plant-environment interactions Postdoc position, TV-L E13, 100% TASKS // Protein MS and MS data analysis, Establishment of in vivo XL-MS in plant systems WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Pharmacy PI // Andrea Sinz Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5521/24-D
Project A01 - Structure-function analysis of NAC transcription factor proteoforms PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein NMR spectroscopy, Biophysical protein characterisations, Experimental handling of proteins WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Physics PI // Jochen Balbach Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5501/24-D
Project A04 - Quantitative cytogenetic characterisation and structural analysis of REC8 proteoforms in plant meiosis PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Cryo-EM Imaging and Structural Modeling, Integration of Data and Model Development WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology PI // Panagiotis Kastritis Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5504/24-D
Project A05 - Targeting of function and structure of Arabidopsis dicing complex proteoforms on microRNA biogenesis PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Computational design of interactions between protein and RNA/DNA uing artificial intelligence and structure-based design, Expressing and testing designed proteins in bacterial, insect and mammalian cell cultures, Evalution of designed proteins using protein-DNA/RNA-binding assays and together with the project WORK PLACE // Leipzig University, Institute for Drug Discovery PI // Clara T. Schoeder Job advertisement // [RegNr. *]
Project B01 - Natural allelic variation of PI4P 5-kinases modulating plasma membrane processes in plants PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein expression in E. coli or other systems, Enzyme activity assays and characterization of kinetic parameters, Determination of posttranslational modifications, Protein-protein binding assays, Protein-lipid binding assays WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology PI // Ingo Heilmann Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5506/24-D
Project B01 - Natural allelic variation of PI4P 5-kinases modulating plasma membrane processes in plants PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein MS and MS data analysis, Establishment of in vivo XL-MS in plant systems WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Pharmacy PI // Andrea Sinz Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5507/24-D
Project B03 - Allelic variation of a vacuolar cation channel modulating ion homeostasis and calcium signalling in plants PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Transient and stable protein expression (E. coli, N. benthamiana, A. thaliana), Protein characterization (enzyme activity and conformational change), Fluorescence spectroscopy (in vitro and in vivo imaging), Mass spectrometry WORK PLACE // Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry (IPB) Halle, Biochemistry of Plant Interactions PI // Tina Romeis Job advertisement // 2024-06-03 - Project B03
Project B05 - Role of plant SRO proteoforms in tolerance to oxidative and salinity stress PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein purification, Biochemical and biophysical characterization of proteins, Protein crystallization and structural analysis WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology PI // Milton T. Stubbs Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5510/24-D
Project C01 - Climate-associated functional polymorphisms of terpene synthases in Arabidopsis thaliana PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // High throughput screening, Protein expression in yeast, Biochemical characterization of enzymes, Analytics by gas chromatography, Site-directed mutagenesis, Directed evolution, Chemical synthesis WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Organic Chemistry PI // Martin Weissenborn Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5512/24-D
Project C02 - Relevance of natural allelic variation in YUCCA genes for proteoform modulation, local auxin biosynthesis and phenotypic variation in natural Arabidopsis accessions PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein purification, Biochemical and biophysical protein characterizations, Protein crystallization experiments and structural analyses WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology PI // Milton T. Stubbs Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5522/24-D
Project C03 - Impact of natural LPR1 proteoforms on Fe-dependent phosphate sensing PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein purification, Biochemical and biophysical protein characterizations, Protein crystallization experiments and structural analyses WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology PI // Milton T. Stubbs Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5514/24-D
Project C04 - Function of mevalonate kinase proteoforms in the adaptation to specific climates PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein expression and purification, Enzymology, Immunoprecipitation, Targeted mutagenesis in Arabidopsis, Metabolite profiling, phenotyping WORK PLACE // Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry (IPB) Halle, Cell and Metabolic Biology PI // Alain Tissier Job advertisement // 2024-06-03 - Project C04
Project C04 - Function of mevalonate kinase proteoforms in the adaptation to specific climates PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Computational Modeling and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Structural Analysis of proteoforms by Cryo-EM WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology PI // Panagiotis Kastritis Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5515/24-D
Project C05 - Impact of natural allelic variation on structure and function of the immune proteases SAP1 and SAP2 PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein structural MS and MS data analysis, additional: Protein expression in E. coli and protein purification WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Pharmacy PI // Christian Ihling Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5516/24-D
Project A01 - Structure-function analysis of NAC transcription factor proteoforms PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Cloning and molecular characterization of TF proteoforms (in vitro protein expression, protein-DNA and protein-protein interaction assays, in vivo transactivation assays, gene expression analyses, etc.), Complementation of Arabidopsis mutants and phenotypic characterization, GHT-SELEX (in collab. with A03) WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences PI // Carolin Delker Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5502/24-D
Project A04 - Quantitative cytogenetic characterisation and structural analysis of REC8 proteoforms in plant meiosis PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Molecular cytogenetic characterization of proteins via fluorescence immunolabelling, Quantitative analysis of chromosome structure, Analysing patterns of meiotic recombination WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences PI // Steven Dreissig Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5503/24-D
Project A05 - Targeting of function and structure of Arabidopsis dicing complex proteoforms on microRNA biogenesis PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Analysis of microRNA expression in Arabidopsis accession, Cloning expression constructs followed by protein expression in tobacco, In vitro reconstitution of microRNA processing complexes and activity assays WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology PI // Sascha Laubinger Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5505/24-D
Project B01 - Natural allelic variation of PI4P 5-kinases modulating plasma membrane processes in plants PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein expression in E. coli or other systems, Enzyme activity assays and characterization of kinetic parameters, Determination of posttranslational modifications, Protein-protein binding assays, Protein-lipid binding assays WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology PI // Ingo Heilmann Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5506/24-D
Project B03 - Allelic variation of a vacuolar cation channel modulating ion homeostasis and calcium signalling in plants PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Transient and stable protein expression (E. coli, N. benthamiana, A. thaliana), Protein characterization (enzyme activity and conformational change), Fluorescence spectroscopy (in vitro and in vivo imaging), Mass spectrometry WORK PLACE // Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry (IPB) Halle, Biochemistry of Plant Interactions PI // Tina Romeis Job advertisement // 2024-06-03 - Project B03
Project B03 - Allelic variation of a vacuolar cation channel modulating ion homeostasis and calcium signalling in plants PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Calcium imaging, Electrophysiological ion channel analyses, Protein localization, Phenotypical analyses, Ionome analyses WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences PI // Edgar Peiter Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5508/24-D
Project B04 - Impact of allelic variation in jasmonate repressors on proteoform structure, co-receptor assembly and plant performance PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein expression and purification from E. coli and insect cells, Protein activity and binding assays, Analysis of morphological and cellular phenotypes in Arabidopsis WORK PLACE // Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry (IPB) Halle, Molecular Signal Processing PI // Debora Gasperini Job advertisement // 2024-06-03 - Project B04
Project B05 - Role of plant SRO proteoforms in tolerance to oxidative and salinity stress PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Characterisation of Arabidopsis lines with respect to abiotic stress tolerance, confocal microscopy, protein-protein interaction assays (in vitro / in planta) WORK PLACE // Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry (IPB) Halle, Biochemistry of Plant Interactions PI // Lennart Wirthmüller Job advertisement // 2024-06-03 - Project B05
Project C01 - Climate-associated functional polymorphisms of terpene synthases in Arabidopsis thaliana PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Molecular genetic studies on the gene family of terpene synthases in Arabidopsis, Protein expression in bacteria, yeast, and Arabidopsis, Biochemical characterization of enzymes, Analytics by gas chromatography, Site-directed mutagenesis, Protein modeling and substrate docking, Modeling of reaction pathways WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Pharmacy PI // Jörg Degenhardt Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5511/24-D
Project C02 - Relevance of natural allelic variation in YUCCA genes for proteoform modulation, local auxin biosynthesis and phenotypic variation in natural Arabidopsis accessions PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Gene cloning, Generation and assessment of transgenic Arabidopsis plants, Crossing, Cultivation and phenotyping of Arabidopsis on artificial media, Recombinant expression of proteins, Protein gel blot analysis, Confocal microscopy WORK PLACE // Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Physiology and Cell Biology PI // Nicolaus von Wirén Job advertisement // RefNr. 32/05/24
Project C04 - Function of mevalonate kinase proteoforms in the adaptation to specific climates PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein expression and purification, Enzymology, Immunoprecipitation, Targeted mutagenesis in Arabidopsis, Metabolite profiling, phenotyping WORK PLACE // Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry (IPB) Halle, Cell and Metabolic Biology PI // Alain Tissier Job advertisement // 2024-06-03 - Project C04
Project C05 - Impact of natural allelic variation on structure and function of the immune proteases SAP1 and SAP2 PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Protein expression and purification in E. coli and N. benthamiana, complementation of Arabidopsis mutants and phenotypic characterization (resistance to bacterial infection), biochemical characterization of proteases, antibacterial assays WORK PLACE // Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry (IPB) Halle, Receptor Biochemistry PI // Mariana Schuster Job advertisement // 2024-06-04 - Project C05
Project A03 - Mutation-sensitive prediction of transcription factor-DNA interactions in plants Postdoc position, TV-L E13, 100% TASKS //::::::::::::::::::::::::: WORK PLACE // Leipzig University, Institute for Drug Discovery PI // Jens Meiler Job advertisement // [RegNr. *]
Project D02 - Development of SNPstar 2.0 and computational prediction of putative proteoform candidates with high functional proteoform variation Postdoc position, TV-L E13, 100% TASKS // Construction of a Plant Pangenome Browser; Machine Learning; integration of various omics (DAP-seq, GHT-SELEX, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq) data and 3D protein structure structure data for elucidating SNP effects of proteoforms; analysis of orthology relationships WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Agricultural & Nutritional Sciences PI // Marcel Quint and Ivo Große Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5524/24-D
Project A04 - Quantitative cytogenetic characterisation and structural analysis of REC8 proteoforms in plant meiosis PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Cryo-EM Imaging and Structural Modeling, Integration of Data and Model Development WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology PI // Panagiotis Kastritis Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5504/24-D
Project A05 - Targeting of function and structure of Arabidopsis dicing complex proteoforms on microRNA biogenesis PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Computational design of interactions between protein and RNA/DNA uing artificial intelligence and structure-based design, Expressing and testing designed proteins in bacterial, insect and mammalian cell cultures, Evalution of designed proteins using protein-DNA/RNA-binding assays and together with the project WORK PLACE // Leipzig University, Institute for Drug Discovery PI // Clara T. Schoeder Job advertisement // [RegNr. *]
Project C04 - Function of mevalonate kinase proteoforms in the adaptation to specific climates PhD position, TV-L E13, 65% TASKS // Computational Modeling and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Structural Analysis of proteoforms by Cryo-EM WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology PI // Panagiotis Kastritis Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5515/24-D
Project D01 - Modeling, understanding, and predicting >2 million Arabidopsis proteoforms in the post-genomic era PhD position, TV-L E13, 100% TASKS // Molecular modeling with AlphaFold, Rosetta, Haddock; Scientific programming with Python, R, or another programming language; Development of machine learning / deep learning methods for mutation effect predictions; Programming of web-based protein modeling applications WORK PLACE // Leipzig University, Institute for Drug Discovery PI // Georg Künze Job advertisement // [RegNr. *]
Project D02 - Development of SNPstar 2.0 and computational prediction of putative proteoform candidates with high functional proteoform variation PhD position, TV-L E13, 100% TASKS // Analysis of SNP properties using different measures and bioinformatics methods; Analysis and comparison of proteoforms based on SNP properties and additional measures and methods for pairwise sequence comparison; Design and implementation of ranking and prioritization methods on the level of individual SNPs and on the level of proteoforms WORK PLACE // Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Computer Science PI // Ivo Große Job advertisement // Reg.-Nr. 5-5517/24-D
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