Postdoctoral Position - Membrane Transporter Biochemistry

Postdoctoral Position - Membrane Transporter Biochemistry

JMU - Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg

Würzburg, Germany

Why join us

We are a young, ambitious lab, and that is a feature, not a footnote. You will pick up a proven, de-risked screening pipeline and use it to drive your own discovery cycle - from running the screen, to nominating candidates, to the biochemistry that proves which one is real. That means a project you genuinely own, frequent and direct interaction with the PI, and room to shape both the science and the lab as it grows. You will also be the person who brings depth in protein and membrane-transport biochemistry to a group built around biosensor engineering and functional genomics - a complementary, intellectually independent role, and an ideal platform from which to build toward your own future group. We are committed to making sure our people leave here better scientists than they arrived, well positioned for whatever comes next, in academia, industry, or beyond.

We are a place that takes the work, and each other, seriously: we love the technology we build and the biology we chase, we dig until we understand things mechanistically, and we never lose sight of why any of it matters. We work collaboratively and openly - shared data, electronic lab notebooks, reagents, and ideas.

Who we're looking for

Essential:

• A PhD in biochemistry, cell/molecular biology, or a related field;
• Strong hands-on experience in protein biochemistry: expression, purification, and the careful sample preparation that downstream in vitro assays depend on;
• Care, rigor, and patience - validating a membrane transporter is demanding work that rewards meticulous experimental design;
• Proficiency in English (the working language of the lab).

Desirable:

• Experience with membrane or transport proteins, reconstitution (e.g. proteoliposomes), or functional transport assays;
• A track record of taking a project from candidate to mechanism.

A plus:

• Experience with metabolic flux/isotope-tracing approaches, mass spectrometry-based readouts;
• Experience with functional genomics or pooled CRISPR screens (or eagerness to learn - we can train this);
• Comfort with quantitative data analysis (Python, R, or command-line tools).