Argentinean Host for MSCA Global Fellowship offered: Research project on Electron Microscopy and Microbiology

The Center for Electron Microscopy (CIME) is an EM-core facility running in Tucuman since 1982. Located within the Scientific Pole of the University of Tucuman in association with the National Council of Research and Technology, it can conduct both transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and a scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The facility helps improve the scientific output of University and CONICET researchers, while providing faculty, students and staff with guidance for EM research. The EM facility also offers analysis for a variety of samples from biological tissues, body fluid, bacteria, viruses and samples from other scientific fields (geology, arqueology). Applications include cell biology, structural biology, soft matter and nanomaterials, nanoparticles and other fields of nanotechnology where one requires nano level imaging.

Research at CIME is leaded by Dr. Virginia Albarracin (MCAA Chapter Argentina), a molecular microbiologist. She uses model extremophiles microbes to unravel the molecular mechanisms behind resistance to extreme conditions such as UV-radiation and heavy-metal stress. A combination of techniques (including multi-omics and bioimaging) is used to this purpose in which electron microscopy is the primer method to understand UV or/and metal stress effects on bacterial membranes and subcelullar structures. Efforts are also made for developing novel techniques for EM in bacterial extremophiles.

We are looking for a highlly motivated young scientist with experience in microbiology and electron microscopy for applying to a MSCA Fellowship. The project theme should be related with multidimensional, multimodal and correlative microscopy in combination with multiomics approaches for dissecting adaptation and stress response to chemical (metals) and physical stresses (UV) in model extremophiles at several resolution levels: i.e. community, cell, subcellular and molecular. 

Find more info in:  https://net4mobility.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/Formulario_CIME.pdf