Postdoctoral in Cancer Genomics

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This service is financed by a donation of Högboman Cocozza research foundation for the employment of postdoctoral research in medicine and health.

Your work assignments

The work involves investigating how WNT signaling, a communication path between cells that are evolutionarily preserved throughout the animal kingdom, regulates the fate of cells. Although the mechanisms behind the canonical WNT signal path have been studied, it is still unclear how the nuclear protein β-catenin can give rise to a wide range of transcription response depending on cellular context or development You will focus on various cancers that exhibit constitutively active WNT signaling and examine how this signal path contributes to heterogeneous cell behavior and cells' ability to self-renewal, differentiation and migration.

As postdoctoral, you will mainly conduct research. Teaching can also be included in the tasks, however, to a maximum of one fifth of working hours.

Your qualifications

To be eligible for employment as a postdoctoral doctor, you have discontinued a doctorate or have a foreign degree that is deemed to correspond to the doctoral degree. Your degree must be completed at the latest at the time when the employment decision is made.

Your degree must be exhausted no more than three years before the deadline for application for this employment. If there are special reasons, it may be in question that has exhausted a doctoral degree earlier, for example, at AT or ST service or different types of statutory leave. You should be defended by other university than Linköping University.

We are looking for you who have completed a doctoral degree in a subject area related to molecular biology. Alternatively, you otherwise acquired mainly corresponding knowledge.

You should have experience with advanced cell culture systems, such as organoids from different organs. In addition to basic molecular biology methods (RT-QPCR, Western blot and DNA cloning), you should also have experience in profiling transcription factors and analyzes of transcriptomics at single level and possess calculation science

Merit is if you also have experience with microscopy-based image analysis, immunohistochemistry and protocols for differentiation of cell cultures.

You are a curious and scientifically powered person who is fascinated by the complexity of biological systems and their ability to organize. You also have an interest in teaching and supervising students on the basis and advanced level and want to cooperate in an internationally oriented and competitive research group. For the employment, very good knowledge of English is required in speech and writing.

Your workplace

You will work at the cantù laboratory located at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Virology, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, at the Faculty of Medicine at Linköping University (LiU).

The laboratory is also part of the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) and ScilifeLab.

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If the employment

The employment is a time-limited employment full time in three years.

The postdoctor has the opportunity for a foreign station at an university abroad during 6-12 months within the framework of the employment, funded by the foundation.

Before the third year of the employment, the postdoctoral does apply to the Foundation on its own operating grant of CA 500 000 SEK, intended for those who have ambition and the foundation's assessed ability to build their own research environment.

Access according to agreement under 2027.

Salary and benefits

The employment is financed by Högboman-Cocozza's research foundation with a salary of 43 000 kr per month.

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Union contacts

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Application

You are looking for this employment by clicking the "Apply" button below. Your application must be Linköping University Last the 30 November 2026. The application that comes after the last application date is not considered.

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