To join our Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)-funded beta cell biology network, we are looking for a highly motivated PostDoc working in the group of Stefan Kubicek at CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, co-supervised by Jacob Hecksher-Sorensen, Hagedorn Institute, Copenhagen. We aim at generating insulin-producing beta cells from other cell types (Collombat et al. Cell 2009) by targeting chromatin, signaling pathways and master regulatory transcription factors with small-molecules (Fomina, Kubicek et al. PNAS 2010, Kubicek et al PNAS 2012). The identification of chemical compounds promoting such conversion could open new avenues towards an improved treatment of type I diabetes: we will therefore use several approaches aimed at discovering small molecules able to activate Pax4 expression and/or inhibit Arx activities. For more information and application details please visit: http://www.cemm.oeaw.ac.at/in!

 Extended Deadline for Applications: 15 January 2013.

Anita Ender

application@cemm.at

CeMM, Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Vienna, Austria

Anita Ender, application@cemm.at