About your role
Your main tasks and responsibilities within this project are:
- identifying transcription factors that regulate macrophage cytokine responses using a natural genetic variation screen;
- validating and functionally testing the identified transcription factors by knockdown/knockout strategies on the cytokine responses of macrophages;
- next to cell culture experiments, using and analyzing state-of-the-art approaches such as RNA-sequencing and ChIP-sequencing analysis;
- translating your findings to disease models;
- aligning these findings with human disease.
About you- You have a PhD in biomedical sciences.
- You have experience in molecular biology, immunology and transcriptional regulation.
- You have experience in transcriptomic and genomic data analysis and bioinformatics.
- You have excellent communication skills in English, both written and oral.
- You are an enthusiastic team player with positive social skills.
Our offer- A flying start to your career in scientific research.
- Plenty of room for your drive to shape tomorrow's healthcare.
- Working on large-scale and in-house research, with motivated colleagues from all over the world.
- You will be employed by Amsterdam UMC Research BV.
- A contract for 12 months, with the possibility of extension.
- Salary scale 10: € 3.598 to € 5.669 gross based on full-time employment (depending on education and experience) and a year-end bonus of 8.3%. Calculate your net salary here.
- Holiday hours: 190.4 per year for fulltime and a possibility to save additional hours.
- Pension accrual with BeFrank, a modern, comprehensible and fairly priced pension.
- For >7 km each way, 100% reimbursement for public transport travel costs and, for private transport, €0.18 per km up to a maximum of 40 km each way.
- Do you prefer walking or cycling? Take advantage of our good bike scheme. Moreover, you will receive a reimbursement of €0.18 per km.
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