Volkswagen Stiftung “Life?” grant awarded to Baum and Saric labs

As a part of an international collaboration led by Freiburg University, Baum and Saric labs will work towards answering how different cellular compartments developed their communication. To do so, together with their partners, the labs will investigate vesicle trafficking across evolution – from archaea to eukaryotes – from a biochemistry, cell biology, and physics point of view. We are very excited about this collaboration and hope it will bring us closer to the understanding of how complex life forms emerged.

As a result we have two fully funded PhD opportunities to join the Baum and Saric labs. Please see the links for the projects below for further details:

• Physics behind the evolution of cell remodelling
• Live cell imaging under extreme conditions

The evaluation of applications will begin 28th October 2019 until the position is filled.

Links

• Information about VW funding
• Buzz Baum's academic profile
• Andela Saric's academic profile
• UCL MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology
• UCL Physics & Astronomy
• UCL Institute for the Physics of Living Systems