ESPCI Paris PSL
The “École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris” (ESPCI Paris PSL) is a “Grande École d’Ingénieurs” with a strong international reputation for research (6 Nobel Prizes) and a member of the Université PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres). ESPCI is a highly multidisciplinary environment with teaching and research in physics, chemistry, and biology.
Project : The project aims at developing microfluidic devices allowing the culture of microorganisms in arrays of open compartments, performing high-throughput transcriptomics in situ, and study the interaction between bacteria and cancer cells.
Team and laboratory : The research will be done in the Laboratory of Biophysics and Evolution directed by Philippe Nghe, part of the unit UMR-CNRS ESPCI 8231 Chemistry Biology Innovation at ESPCI Paris. For more information, see https://www.lbe.espci.fr/home/. The laboratory is part of ESPCI Paris, a ‘grande école d’ingénieurs’ in France, which counts 6 Nobel prizes (see www.espci.psl.eu).
Candidate profile : Candidates with a PhD in quantitative biology, have experience in microbiology, microfluidics, and image analysis. A strong taste for quantitative approaches, interdisciplinarity and team work is required.
Position : 1 year to 18 months of post-doc starting from July 2022.
Contact : Please contact philippe.nghe@espci.psl.eu with CV, motivation and recommendation letters.