A Post-Doctoral stipend is available for working
in Professor Anna Stina Sandelius group
at Gothenburg University, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences:
Plant lipid trafficking and membrane contact sites
A post doc stipend is available for studies of
lipid transfer mechanisms involved in adjusting
the plasma membrane lipid composition during
phospholipid-to-DGDG replacement in plasma
membranes in phosphate-limited plants. Besides
using biochemical/molecular techniques, the post
doc will be the biological lab partner in the
ongoing collaboration with colleagues at the
Department of Physics, where optical manipulation
is used to study membrane-membrane contact sites
between plant organelles (e.g. between
endoplasmic reticulum and chloroplasts; between
endoplasmic reticulum and plasma membrane).
The stipend is for one year, with the possible
extension for an additional year. The appointment
should begin preferably no later than early
September 2008, but an earlier start would be
welcome. The tax-free stipend roughly corresponds
to 1900 Euros (SEK 18,000) per month and
work-related insurance will be covered.
Deadline for application is April 30, 2008.
Preferably, the application should be mailed as
one pdf document. The application should include
CV, publication list, copy of PhD certificate and
a short description (2-4 pages) of research
experience and interests, methodological skills
and other activities of relevance. The applicant
should also provide contact information of at
least two reference persons. If publications are
not readily available on the web, copies of the
three most significant ones should be included.
E-mail the application to:
annastina.sandelius from dpes.gu.se and please feel
free to contact me for further information, by
e-mail or phone +46 31 7862611 or +46 70532 4151!
You can also contact a former Ph D student, Dr
Mats Andersson (who will return to the department
this spring): mats.andersson from dpes.gu.se; or
contact henrik.tjellstrom from dpes.gu.se (the present
Ph D student Henrik Tjellström).
(Mail address: Professor Anna Stina Sandelius,
University of Gothenburg, Dept of Plant and
Environmental Sciences, PO Box 461, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden)
The Department of Plant and Environmental
Sciences has 50+ faculty members and around 40 Ph
D students involved in four research areas:
applied environmental sciences, evolutionary
botany, plant ecology and ecotoxicology, and plant molecular biology.
Read more about the research project in:
Andersson MX, Larsson KE, Tjellström H,
Liljenberg C, Sandelius AS (2005) Phosphate-limited oat:
The plasma membrane and the tonoplast as major
targets for phospholipid-to-glycolipid
replacement and stimulation of phospholipases in
the plasma membrane. J Biol Chem 280:27578
Andersson MX, Goksör M, Sandelius AS (2007)
Optical manipulation reveals strong attracting
forces at membrane contact sites between
endoplasmic reticulum and chloroplasts. J Biol Chem 282:1170
Larsson KE, Kjellberg JM, Tjellström H, Sandelius
AS (2007) LysoPC acyltransferase/PC transacylase
activities in plant plasma membrane and plasma
membrane-associated endoplasmic reticulum. BMC
Plant Biol 7:64 (doi:10.1186/1471-2229-7-64).
