Postdoc Opportunities in Cryo Electron Microscopy in Switzerland

The Francis Crick Institute is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join the Cytoskeletal Coordination Laboratory, led by Sami Chaaban. The laboratory is opening in January 2027 and investigates how molecular machines build, remodel and dismantle the cytoskeleton, with particular emphasis on the reorganisation of cell architecture during cell division. The project will examine how protein machines remodel microtubules. It will address how molecular complexes assemble and engage microtubules to co...

This postdoctoral project focuses on the structural biology of amyloid aggregates and the molecular basis of tauopathies. The work is centered on tau, an intrinsically disordered protein implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, where it forms amyloid assemblies with distinct pathological conformations. The project aims to characterize tau aggregation pathways that lead to amyloid states reproducing biological strain-like properties, including structure and seeding be...

This postdoctoral position at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) is focused on the molecular study of UCP1 mutants that are described as hyperactivated. The project combines complementary experimental approaches to understand the properties of these variants at both the biochemical and cellular levels. The successful researcher will work on a set of interconnected tasks spanning protein purification , cryo-EM structural analysis , molecular dynamics , cell transfection , met...

Suyang Zhang’s team at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB) is recruiting a PhD student and a postdoctoral researcher to investigate co-transcriptional splicing , also described as transcription-coupled splicing. The research examines how splicing is coordinated with transcription and gene regulation. The projects will use cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and biochemistry to study the molecular structures and mechanisms underlying co-transcriptional splicing. The positions are bas...

This postdoctoral position is based in the Rorbach laboratory at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet , in Stockholm, Sweden. The project sits at the interface of structural biology, mitochondrial biology, molecular biology, and disease modelling, with a focus on the molecular mechanisms that control mitochondrial gene expression in health and disease. The research group investigates how mitochondrial proteins regulate gene expression using genetic, struct...

The Wachter Lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, is seeking a postdoctoral research fellow to investigate fundamental questions in the molecular mechanisms of transcriptional control. The lab is a structural and chemical biology group studying transcriptional regulation associated with human diseases, including cancer. Its research integrates molecular biology, structural biology, functional genomics, proteomics, and computationally guided approaches to understand how mo...

The Department of Physics at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join the Synthetic Quantum Materials Group for experimental work at the intersection of nanoscience and quantum materials. The project centers on scanning tunneling microscopy of atomically thin and engineered quantum systems, with a strong emphasis on the controlled fabrication, clean assembly, and atomic-scale characterization of two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures. The researcher wil...

This full-time Research Fellow position at Monash University’s Clayton campus sits within an exciting structural biology research program focused on the structure and molecular mechanisms of the heme biosynthetic machinery. The successful researcher will lead independent projects using advanced cryo-structural methods, especially single particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) and cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), to help reveal how these important biological processes work at the m...

This postdoctoral fellow position at Saint Louis University is part of an active biomedical research environment within BMB, where faculty work on blood coagulation, DNA repair, and lipid metabolism with state-of-the-art facilities and instrumentation. The project centers on the structural enzymology of proteins responsible for blood coagulation . The fellow will study the molecular architecture and mechanism of key interactions involved in clot formation and regulation, using a combination of c...