Prof. Dr. Hauke Hillen’s research group have two fully-funded open positions, one for a postdoctoral researcher and one for a PhD student, located at the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, Germany.
The team studies the structure and function of molecular machineries involved in gene expression in eukaryotic cells and organelles. They are particularly interested in the mechanisms underlying gene expression in human mitochondria and how this process is embedded in the cellular context. To study this, they combine structural biology (single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, X-Ray crystallography and cryo-electron tomography) with biochemical, biophysical and cell biological approaches to dissect mitochondrial processes from the atomic to the organellar scale. For examples on our research, see PMID: 34489609, 34135319, 33328633, 29149603 and 29033127.
The research group are a small and international team and are looking for enthusiastic, open-minded and ambitious team players to join them in our quest to understand mitochondrial molecular biology.
