Your workplace
The FAU Cell Biology Division (Department of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) investigates the division and directional expansion of plant cells, two processes essential for the development of multicellular tissues and organs.

Our benefits

• The successful candidate will have the opportunity and the support to gain increasing independence and to work towards lecturer qualification (Habilitation)
• The initial employment (100%) will be for 3 years, with the possibility of an extension for at least 3 more years
• The Cell Biology Division offers a dynamic, ambitious, and supportive international working environment embedded within the FAU Department of Biology, a prominent center of molecular, cell and developmental biology in Germany

Your Tasks
Characterization of molecular mechanisms underlying recently identified functions of Arabidopsis AtGBL3, a nuclear envelope-associated dynamin-related large GTPase, in nuclear envelope formation, global transcriptional repression and root development (Reimann et al. 2023-Nat Plants 9-766; ). The successful candidate is expected to advance this project working closely together with and supervising a DFG (German Research Foundation)-funded PhD student. Her/his efforts to secure additional funding and to attain Junior Group Leader status will be actively encouraged and supported.

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