PhD oportunities at the CNB
October 2021
The Chemokine Receptors: New Targets for Therapeutic Intervention group (P.I. Mario Mellado) is looking for highly motivated young researchers interested in carrying their PhD training with them. Candidates may contact Mario Mellado or José Miguel Rodriguez Frade via email and should apply to the FPI2021 Program before the official deadline in the PID2020-114980RB-I00 project entitled: “Estudio de la dinámica de heterodímeros de receptores de quimioquinas en la membrana celular: consecuencias funcionales”. More information can be found here
The "Hepatitis C virus infection" lab is looking for candidates to apply for an FPI contract to develop their PhD in the lab for 4 years. The aims, requirements and selection process indications can be found in this document. For any questions regarding this contract, please contact Dr Pablo Gastaminza
The Viral molecular machines is looking for candidates to apply for an FPI contract associated to the research project PID2020-113287RB-I00 to develop their PhD in the lab for 4 years . The aims, requirements and selection process indications can be found in this document. For any questions regarding this contract, please contact Dr José Ruiz Castón.
The Laboratories Logic of Genomic Systems and Systems Biomedicine are looking for a PhD candidate to apply for a “Severo Ochoa Excellence Centers” FPI predoctoral contract. The project focuses in the identification of quantitative principles in biological systems and their application in biomedicine. More information here
Candidates can send their CV, a brief statement with their interests and two letters of recommendation to Juan Poyatos and/or Mónica Chagoyen. For any questions regarding individual adaptation to these conditions, contact either of the two researchers involved.
Deadline: 4th February 2021
CNB offers 10 positions withing La Caixa” Foundation Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowships - Incoming program. This program offers 35 PhD fellowships for early-stage researchers of any nationality to pursue their PhD studies in research centres accredited with the Spanish Seal of Excellence Severo Ochoa, María de Maeztu or Health Institute Carlos III and Portuguese units accredited as “excellent” or “exceptional” according to the evaluation of the Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia. This frame is addressed exclusively to PhD research projects on STEM disciplines: life sciences and health, experimental sciences, physics, chemistry and mathematics.
CNB projects:
- Assembly, structure and physical properties of double jelly roll viruses with implications in biomedicine, ecology and virus evolution
Group leader Dr. Carmen San Martín Research group
- Bacterial antibiotic addiction: exploring a new concept in the war against multi-drug resistant pathogens
Group leader Dr. Daniel López Serrano Research group
- Disruption of protein folding using small drugs as an anti-cancer strategy: CCT chaperonin as therapeutic target
Group leader: Dr. José María Valpuesta Research group
- Exploiting natural variation following comparative GWAS analysis to unravel phosphate starvation signaling in plants
Group leader Dr. Javier Paz-Ares Research group
- Exploring newly discovered microbiomes: on the origins of the bacterial cell wall
Group leader Dr. Francisco García del Portillo Research group
- Investigating the interplay between activity and the neuron’s identity during cerebral cortical wiring. Reprograming and brain repair
Group leader Dr. Marta Nieto Research group
- Structural and Functional Analysis of the IYO protein
Group leader Dr. Enrique Rojo Research group
- Targeting of Diacylglycerol Kinases for cancer immunotherapy
Group leader Dr. Isabel Mérida Research group
- Towards precision medicine: robustness and variability in complex phenotypes
Group leader Dr. Juan F. Poyatos Research group
- Vaccine development against SARS-CoV-2 by B and T cell multiepitope protein components
Group leader Dr. Mariano Esteban Research group
Deadline 25th February 2021
La Caixa” Foundation Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowships - Retaining. This program offers 30 PhD fellowships for early-stage researchers of any nationality to pursue their PhD studies in any research domain and any university or research center in Spain or Portugal. (No center specified)
CLOSED
Deadline: 27th October 2020
Carlos Alonso´s group is looking for PhD candidates to work in the project "Molecular and genetic bases in natural variation of tricomes patterns in Cardamine hirsuta and Arabidopsis thaliana" . More information here
Carlos Martínez and Karel van Wely´s group is looking for PhD candidates to work in the project "Role od Dido in RNA metabolism regulation: Implications for stem cell development, metabolic syndrome, and cancer". More information here
Jose María Valpuesta´s group is looking for PhD candidates to work in the project "Molecular Chaperones: key in protein homeostasis" (PID2019-105872GB-I00). More information here
Vicente Rubio´s group is looking for PhD candidates to work in the project “New chromatin remodeling pathways in the plant response to environmental signals”(ref# PID2019-105495GB-I00). More information here
Juan Antonio García´s group is looking for PhD candidates to work in the project "Potyviral infections: A new tool to develop antiviral strategies" (ref: PID2019-109380RB-100). More information here
Ana Cuenda´s group is looking for PhD candidates to work in the project "Stress activated protein kinases p38MAPKs in human diseases". More information here
Javier Tamames and Carlos Pedrós-Alió´s group is looking for PhD candidates to work in the project " TRAITS: Studying the structure of guilds beyond the species rank. Development of methods for the fast analysis of microbiomes “ ( PID2019-110011RB-C31). More information here
