A newly established interdisciplinary consortium between the Gut Microbiology Laboratory of the Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern (leading house), the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory (EML) in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL, the Laboratory of Metabolic Signaling of the Interfaculty Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL, and the Clostridia Research Group (CRG) in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nottingham has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under the “Sinergia – Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Breakthrough Research” program to investigate bile acid related host-microbiome interactions along the gut-liver axis. The Gut Microbiology Group and Institute for Infectious Diseases are seeking
2 PhD students or 1 Postdoc (100 %)
To investigate the interactions between bile acid transforming microbiota and host immune system and metabolism
Possible starting date is 1. September 2018 or later.