The Sars International Centre is a partner of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and a department of Unifob, affiliated with the University of Bergen. The Centre is focused on basic research in marine molecular biology, developmental biology and evolution, through genetic and comparative studies of invertebrates and vertebrates.

The research group headed by Dr. Di Jiang is offering two postdoctoral positions. The group focuses its research on morphogenesis during animal development, more specifically on the tube formation process in ascidian Ciona intestinalis notochord. Cionanotochord tubulogenesis involves an assortment of common and fundamental cellular processes, including cell shape changes, apical membrane biogenesis, cell/cell adhesion remodeling, dynamic cell crawling, and lumen matrix secretion (for detailed description please see Dong et al., 2009). Resources around this new model have been established including a running year-round culture for transgenesis, Gateway-based cloning system for fluorescent fusion protein construction, and microarray-based notochord transcriptome. Extensive genomic and functional resources are also available in Ciona intestinalis.

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