08 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Helsinki, Finland

We are looking for a highly motivated post-doctoral researcher with an PhD degree (in e.g., craft science, organic chemistry, material sciences, textile technology or another related field). The post-doctoral researcher is expected to contribute to research on textile material colouration and colour fastness testing, developing laboratory scale and large-scale extraction, separation and analysis methods (e.g. HPLC-UV-vis-MS/MS and NMR) for natural organic compounds and colourants. Research can be focused according to the interests of the appointee when fulfilling the aims of the BioColour project.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated postdoctoral researchers, who are interested in applying (and possibly developing) super-resolution microscopy and single-particle tracking, to join our research group for an ERC-funded project. The project involves planning and executing experimental work including state-of-the-art microscopy, genetic engineering, RNA-sequencing, data analysis, machine learning, and modelling to unravel how bacteria adapt to different temperatures. Our team will work on multiple topics at the interface of physics, chemistry, and biology: intracellular spatial organization, macromolecular crowding, liquid-liquid phase separation, heat- and cold shock protein dynamics, and gene regulation. The postdoctoral researcher will have a key role in contributing ideas, analyzing and interpreting the findings, and writing up the research, in collaboration with the broader project group.

We seek postdoctoral researchers to an ERC-funded project probing how the geometry of the niche influences cell fate decisions using bioengineered scaffolds to modify tissue topology. The project involves development of novel research techniques and assays, and will be facilitated by state-of-the art maskless photolithography instrumentation dedicated to the project.

We are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher, who will be part of the international research team working on Regenerative agricultural systems for climate resilience in agroecological gradient in East Africa (REACT) project funded by Academy of Finland. REACT aims to develop new knowledge on water, soil, biodiversity, and land management to improve resource use efficiency for regenerative smallholder agricultural systems in different agroecological zones in Kenya. We develop research-based measures with local agricultural stakeholders to enhance the climate resilience of cropping systems. The project will contribute to this systemic change by identifying efficient adoptable pathways to improve plant water availability and stable soil organic carbon sequestration for improved water retention in variable conditions. This targets to ensure long term productive and resilient regenerative farming systems for maintaining food security whilst operating within current and future environmental limits under climate change.

The postdoc will work with the newly appointed Professor of Health and Social Services Research and Leadership, Virpi Timonen, affiliated with the Discipline of Social Policy (Yhteiskuntapolitiikka) and the cross-disciplinary UHealth initiative. The post holder will be involved in a number of existing and planned projects, and will have capacity and keen interest to contribute to new project ideas and applications.

You will develop computational tools for analyzing microbiome data and apply these methods for human microbiome data sets. You will work in a project investigating the initial establishment of the gut phage populations and their functions at birth and in infancy. Specific goals include investigations of mother-to-infant phage transmission and phage roles in modulating the natural history of the gut microbial communities through predation, lateral gene transfer and other functions. Method development work could involve (but is not limited to) assembly-based quantification and characterization of bacteriophages with Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing, tracking horizontal gene transfer between bacteria and bacterial communities, community gene expression analysis (metatranscriptomics) or multi-view data integration (metagenomic, metatranscriptomic, metabolomic and other data). You will work in a diverse team with wetlab scientists and clinicians to answer concrete biological questions and to create solutions for future healthcare and clinical work. There are possibilities to extend this work to understand phage roles in fecal microbiome transplants and (gut) microbial ecology in general. The balance between method development, analysis of existing and new data sets, manuscript writing, and other tasks can be adjusted according to your preferences.

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work in a consortium project aiming to understand how plant biodiversity could be integrated into our food production systems to develop sustainable and climate-smart farming practices. Specifically, we are addressing questions regarding how above-ground plant diversity links with below-ground microbial diversity, and how these jointly affect plant fitness, resistance and resilience to both biotic and abiotic stress using experimental approaches. The consortium joins expertise in agriculture, plant ecology, soil microbial ecology and climate science. It is an exciting interdisciplinary effort addressing cutting edge scientific questions with direct applicability.