Stockholm University announces two graduate student positions in Computational RNA Biology in the Friedländer group at the Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute (MBW).
More information: PhD in Computational RNA Biology : Stockholm, Sweden
Application deadline: April 24th, 2018.
Marc Friedländer’s research on miRNA functions in single cells has been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.
The ERC awarded research has been highlighted in News and Press:
https://www.su.se/mbw/about-us/news/general-news/assistant-professor-marc-friedländer-receives-erc-starting-grant-1.348286
https://www.su.se/english/research/research-news/seven-erc-grants-to-stockholm-university-1.343701
https://www.vr.se/inenglish/newspress/newsarchive/news2017/16swedishresearchersawardedercstartinggrants.5.7da5d28715e1bca492d77f88.html
After analyzing more than 800 public small RNA-Seq datasets, we found the exogenous miRNAs (xenomiRs), e.g. plant derived miRNAs, detected in human samples are more likely to originate from technical artifacts rather than dietary intake. We also performed carefully designed and controlled animal feeding studies, in which we detected no transfer of plant miRNAs into rat blood, or bovine milk sequences into piglet blood.
Read the paper in RNA [Jan 2017].
Marc Friedländer has been awarded a research grant from Vetenskapsrådet for the period 2016-2019.
Marc Friedländer has been recruited as an Assistant Professor at Stockholm University (the Department of Molecular Biosciences, Wenner-Gren Institute) and SciLifeLab Fellow at the national center for molecular biosciences, Science for Life Laboratory.