PhD and postdoctoral positions in Molecular Microbiology

The Department of Biomedicine is a joint initiative of the University of Basel and the University Hospitals Basel. It unites basic and clinical scientists to advance our understanding of health and disease and to develop therapies for areas of unmet medical need. With over 70 research groups and 800 employees, the Department of Biomedicine is the largest department at the University and is located across six sites in Basel city centre.

The positions

We are looking for apostdoctoral researcherand aPhD studentin molecular microbiology to investigate the genetic basis of drug tolerance inMycobacterium abscessus, one of the most challenging bacterial pathogens to treat. The positions are part of a newly funded international consortium that brings together experts in mycobacterial genetics, high-throughput phenotyping, structural biology and clinical research across Switzerland, Israel, Australia and the USA.

The project

Antibiotic treatments forM. ...