PhD student (f/m/d) (Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in)

Your tasks

• Design, cloning and testing of new constructs
• Functional readout of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes and isometric force measurements of ventricular slices from mice and humans
• Test the best suited approaches in mouse hearts

Your qualifications

• Completed Master of Sciences or equivalent in a Life Sciences subject (molecular medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, …)
• Labwork experience
• Independent, responsible, flexible working style and ability to work in an international team
• Interested in basic cardiovascular research, electrophysiology and optogenetics

We offer

• Structured PhD training within GAUSS/GGNB with additional and optional training in the Hertha Sponer College and EKFZ academy for translation the RTG2824 “Heart and brain diseases: integrative research across organs”
• A stimulating intellectual environment with innovative translational research-projects within the interdisciplinary research areas
• Excellent scientific and technical infrastructure
• Mentoring by renowned scientists of the Göttingen Campus and the FOR5807
• A wide range of interesting benefits as an UMG employee (including in-house daycare center, child vacation care, attractive infrastructure; health and sports promoted by excellent company health management)
• Location in a beautiful and historic German university town steeped in tradition, with a campus that includes the University of Göttingen, Max Planck Institutes, German Primate Centre and other local research institutions

We are looking for an excellent and highly motivated PhD student with an interest in the study of cardiac electrophysiology and develop new optogenetic approaches for this purpose. The successful applicant will be part of the Göttingen Campus and can be associated to the FOR 5807 and RTG2824. He/she/it will explore new channelrhodopsins and optoGPCRs developed by us and collaboration partners as well as test new photopharmacological approaches with the aim to develop cardiac arrhythmia termination further.