Postdoctoral Position in Fungal Cell Biology or Biochemistry / Structural Biology of Starship Transposons

The newly established Plant Disease Dynamics group at ETH Zurich is looking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to study how transposons shape the biology of plant pathogenic fungi. We are looking for someone with prior experience in either fungal cell biology or biochemistry/structural biology, who is excited to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying the mobility of Starship transposons and the genes they carry within plant-infecting fungal species. Depending on your background and interests, the position can be shaped toward a cell-biology track (functional and cellular characterisation of transposon mobilisation in living fungal cells) or a biochemistry/structural-biology track (in vitro reconstitution and structural characterisation of the proteins that drive Starship activity).