Postdoc Virology

**wanted at the earliest possible date** at the **Department of Infectious Diseases**, for the **Virology**.

The **Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology at the University Hospital Heidelberg **offers positions for **postdocs at all career level**s to investigate post-entry events in retrovirus replication. Research will be conducted in the groups of Hans-Georg Kräusslich and Barbara Müller within the DFG funded collaborative research center **1129**.

More information you can find **here**, **here** and **here**.

**Job-ID**:
V000010802

Zentrum für Infektiologie

**Location**:
Heidelberg

**Start date**:
as soon as possible

**Job Category**:
Science and teaching

**Working hours**:
full-time

**Published**:
02.02.2023

**Limitation**:
Temporary (30.06.2026)

**Contract**:
TV-L

**Your Tasks**:
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Investigation of post-entry events in retrovirus (HIV-1 or MLV) replication using:

- Advanced fluorescence labelling methods
- Generation and characterization of virus derivatives
- study virus replication in (modified) cell lines and primary cells using virological and cell-biological approaches (infectivity analyses, FACS) as well as microscopy
- State of the art microscopy (live-cell, super-resolution, EM) and image analysis

**Your Profile**:
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- Doctoral degree in a relevant discipline (molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, biophysics or molecular medicine)
- Interest in addressing basic virological questions using a variety of methods, with a strong focus on imaging techniques and image analysis
- Good background in standard molecular biological methods
- Ideally experience in fluorescence microscopy and image analysis together with a background in cell biology, biochemistry or biophysics

**We offer**:
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- Goal-oriented, individual training and development opportunities (e.g. HeiTracks carreer support programme for postdocs, participation in Biology or Medical School teaching and training if suitable)
- Working with the latest techniques / technical equipment (access to the IDIP imaging platform in the building equipped with all kinds of state-of-the-art microscopes, including super resolution microscopy, and other microscopy areas on campus (electron tomography, MINFLUX); fully equipped BLS3 area with state-of-the-art microscopy)
- Flexible working hours within the framework of flexitime
- Possibility to publish scientifically is offered and supported
- Regular team meetings
- Interdisciplinary cooperation with all members of SFB1129, as well as additional collaboration partners of the groups if required for specific questions
- Project responsibility possible if suitable
- Targeted initial training
- Job ticket
- Subsidy for vacation care for school children
- Active health promotion
- Company pension plan
- Access to the university library and other university facilities (e.g. university sports)

**Contact & Application**:
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**Interested?**

Zentrum für Infektiologie
- Ms. Martina Nierle
- Im Neuenheimer Feld 344
- 69120 Heidelberg
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We stand for equal opportunities. Severely disabled persons are given priority in the case of equal suitability. The University Hospital aims to generally increase the proportion of women in all areas and positions in which women are underrepresented. Qualified women are therefore particularly encouraged to apply. Full-time positions are generally divisible, unless there are official or legal reasons to the contrary.