About the University

The University of Luxembourg aspires to be one of Europe’s most highly regarded universities with a distinctly international and interdisciplinary character .

It fosters the cross-fertilisation of research and teaching , is relevant to its country, is known worldwide for its research and teaching in targeted areas, and is establishing itself as an innovative model for contemporary European Higher Education.

The University s core asset is its well-connected world-class academic staff which will attract the most motivated, talented and creative students and young researchers who will learn to enjoy taking up challenges and develop into visionary thinkers able to shape society.

Within the University, the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is a highly interdisciplinary research centre (IC), integrating experimental biology and computational biology approaches in order to develop the foundation of a future predictive, preventive and personalized medicine.

Area : the applicant will be a member of the Enzymology & Metabolism Research Group headed by Assist. Prof. Dr. Carole Linster at the LCSB.

The Group’s research currently focuses on elucidating the physiological functions of more recently identified metabolic enzymes and on developing strategies for accelerating enzyme function discovery.

A second central topic is the generation of disease models for selected inborn errors of metabolism to study underlying disease mechanisms and / or investigate treatment options.

The group develops advanced phenotyping techniques, including metabolomics, to address related research questions and uses the budding yeast, zebrafish, and mammalian cell culture, including iPSC-derived cells, as main model systems.

Your Role

We seek a highly skilled and motivated researcher to develop an EU-funded project within an international consortium that focuses on two rare disorders of lysine metabolism causing debilitating and progressive neurological symptoms in young children.

In brief, the Luxembourg contribution to the project includes the generation and deep characterization of several in vivo disease models using zebrafish to ultimately evaluate a number of innovative strategies to improve early diagnosis and early implementation of personalized therapies to enhance long-term health outcomes and patients’ quality of life.

More specifically your tasks will include :

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Previous experience with aquaculture techniques and / or with zebrafish will be considered as an advantage

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Further Information

Applications (in English) should contain the following documents :

Early application is highly encouraged, as the applications will be processed upon reception.