Last application date Jul 28, 2024 00:00
Department LA25 - Department of Biotechnology
Contract Limited duration
Degree You hold a Master’s degree in Bioscience Engineering, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or Biomedical Engineering from one of the countries of the EU, the EER or Switzerland
Occupancy rate 100%
Vacancy type Research staff
BioPort is a young and dynamic research group composed of 6 researchers at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Centre for Synthetic Biology of Ghent University focussing on the emerging research line of extracellular transport over biological membranes related to Industrial Biotechnology and SynBio. We work on several fundamental and applied aspects of microbial transport systems to promote compound membrane crossing in a synthetic biology context (check our website at https://csb-bioport.mystrikingly.com and www.csb.ugent.be). You will be hired on a project named “Waste oil to long-chain dicarboxylic acids (WODCA)”. The overall goal of WODCA is to create new, sustainable, fair-cost long-chain dicarboxylic acid (LCDA) fractions or monomers from lipid waste relevant to specific industrial applications. For this we will use a novel and adapted non-pathogenic yeasts in an optimized fermentation process relying on used cooking oils, followed by an innovative membrane-based purification to deliver LCDAs of high purity appropriate for several applications of interest to Flemish companies. The emphasis of your research will be on strain engineering and synthetic biology.
If relevant, we will support your personal application for a FWO PhD fellowship strategic basic research or FWO PhD fellowship fundamental research with deadline of March 1st 2025. Obtaining such a scholarship will allow you to extend your research time and priority could be given to candidates willing and entitled to apply for such scholarship. More information on these PhD-scholarships can be found on the webpages mentioned below:
http://www.fwo.be/en/fellowships-funding/phd-fellowships/phd-fellowship-strategic-basic-research/
http://www.fwo.be/en/fellowships-funding/phd-fellowships/phd-fellowship-fundamental-research/
Some requirements related to these scholarships:
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
Send your CV (including study results, thesis research topic, contact information of possible referee persons and a recent picture of yourself), copy of your diploma and a motivation letter to csb.recruting@ugent.be. Please use the reference WODCA_PhD. We do not accept late applications.
If your application is incomplete or if you are not meeting the essentials of the job profile, you will not receive an answer.
For more information about this vacancy, please contact Prof. Dr. ir. Inge Van Bogaert (IngeVanBogaert@ugent.be, +32(0)9/264 60 34).
Ghent University is one of the top 100 universities in the Dutch language area, with more than 44,000 students and 15,000 staff members.
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