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The Vardi lab is seeking highly motivated candidates to join an exciting project in the field of chemical ecology, focusing on host-pathogen interactions and chemical communication in the ocean.

5 
Year(s)
Area: 
Chemistry
Life Sciences

The Vardi lab is seeking highly motivated candidates to join an exciting project in the field of chemical ecology, focusing on host-pathogen interactions and chemical communication in the ocean. The project will involve diverse analytical chemistry tools for metabolomics and lipidomics analyses to identify new molecules that mediate virulence and host defence in lab-based model systems and in the marine environment.

The Vardi lab is seeking a highly motivated candidate to join a new and exciting project, funded by the ERC, to study the chemical language during host-pathogen interactions in the ocean.  We aim to unravel the metabolic crosstalk between algae, viruses, and the associated microbiome, which has major ecological consequences on the oceanic carbon cycle. In light of climate change and increasing pathogenicity in marine ecosystems, these interactions may have a profound effect on ocean health. The successful candidate will master analytical chemistry tools for targeted and untargeted metabolomics, as well as data analysis. They will employ state-of-the-art mass spectrometry, coupled to novel microbiology methods such as single cell analyses, both in model systems in the lab and natural communities in the ocean.  

5 
Year(s)
Rotation: 
Area: 
Chemistry
Life Sciences
Sunday, January 1, 2023