3-YEAR POSTDOC POSITION STUDYING CELLULAR SENESCENCE AND AGEING

For this, we are looking for a highly motivated person, capable of working independently, but also in a team. Experience in some of the following techniques will be valued, although it is not an essential requirement: use of primary cultures, infections with lentiviruses and/or retroviruses, isolation of extracellular vesicles and/or work with experimental animals. The scientific trajectory will also be valued, being beneficial to have a publication or paper under review by the first author.

Recent group posts:

1. Fafián-Labora J, ... O'Loghlen A. (2020) Small Extracellular Vesicles Have GST Activity and Ameliorate Senescence-Related Tissue Damage. Cell Metabolism 32(1):71-86.e5. Research highlight in Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. Selected in “Focus in Aging” issue (Cell Metabolism).

2. Fafián-Labora J and O'Loghlen, A.* (2020) Classical and Nonclassical Intercellular Communication in Senescence and Aging. Trends in Cell Biology 30(8):628-39

3. Borghesan M, ... O'Loghlen, A*. Small extracellular vesicles are key regulators of non-cell autonomous intercellular communication in senescence. 2019; Cell Reports 27, 3956–3971

The Center for Biological Research (CIB) is one of the most prestigious and historical research centers of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Generations of distinguished scientists have carried out their research since the Center’s foundation in 1953, and new scientists continue to be trained there. In 2019, in homage to one of the most important researchers in the history of the CIB, where she spent a total of 13 years, and of Spanish molecular biology, the CIB was renamed the Margarita Salas Center for Biological Research.

Currently, the CIB Margarita Salas is reorganizing into three research programs, in which researchers study the structure and organization of living matter and its processes, seek to understand the bases of disease and discover experimental treatments and develop biotechnological processes to enable sustainable growth and facilitate agricultural production. We combine the generation of new knowledge with the development of applications that can help solve current and future challenges facing society.