FACULTY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

We are offering a three-year PhD fellowship in Chemical Microbiology commencing 1 May 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Our laboratory has recently developed technology for identifying and synthesizing the chemical messenger molecules responsible for quorum sensing and crosstalk between staphylococci within the microbiome. These messenger molecules are called autoinducing peptides (AIPs). In this interdisciplinary and highly collaborative project, funded by Sygeforsikringen “danmark”, we will perform a substantial structure–activity relationship (SAR) study, building on our novel discoveries, and start to investigate the potential importance of bacterial cross-communication within the gut microbiota. Your tasks will thus include synthesis, assay development, and biological compound evaluation, including significant amount of work performed in the laboratories of our collaborators at Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UCPH) and at Scripps Research in La Jolla, CA, USA.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Your key tasks as a PhD student at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences are:

• Carrying through an independent research project under supervision
• Completing PhD courses or other equivalent education corresponding to approximately 30 ECTS points
• Participating in active research environments including a stay at another research team, preferably abroad
• Obtaining experience with teaching or other types of dissemination related to your PhD project
• Teaching of undergraduate students in pharmaceutical sciences
• Writing a PhD thesis on the grounds of your project

• Carrying through an independent research project under supervision
• Completing PhD courses or other equivalent education corresponding to approximately 30 ECTS points
• Participating in active research environments including a stay at another research team, preferably abroad
• Obtaining experience with teaching or other types of dissemination related to your PhD project
• Teaching of undergraduate students in pharmaceutical sciences
• Writing a PhD thesis on the grounds of your projec