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We have opening for two PhD positions dedicated to developing aptamer-based sensors to monitor metabolism in bacteria, yeast and tumour cells.
These PhD positions are part of a European research-training network, in which young researcher will do their PhD, and thereby will be excellently prepared for the future academic or industrial job market.
PhD students in the network will do exciting science at the interface between RNA biology and metabolism. We will develop RNA-based molecular sensors, with which we can probe cellular metabolism at the single cell level. Such capability will allow us to address important problems in diseases and biotechnology, where increasing evidence suggests that metabolic cell-to-cell heterogeneity is a key problem.