Interested researchers for these grants, which can be applied for until November 17, 2026, will be able to develop their projects in various laboratories at CNB-CSIC. The call details the research lines available in departments such as Systems Biology, Macromolecular Structure, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Immunology and Oncology, Microbial Biotechnology, and Plant Molecular Genetics.
The projects cover areas such as bacterial genetic modification using synthetic biology, the study of population heterogeneity in bacterial pathogens, microbial ecology, the development of chemical compound representations for drug discovery using deep learning, the analysis of transcription-replication conflicts in eukaryotes, and the determination of structural determinants of complex virus assembly.
Other research lines include computational tools for cryo-electron microscopy, the design of vaccines against emerging viruses, the analysis of coronavirus-host interaction, nanomedicine and cancer immunotherapy, kinase signaling in inflammation and cancer, nuclear receptor signaling and its impact on metabolism and the immune system, molecular determinants of bacterial DNA transfer and antibiotic resistance dissemination, as well as light signaling and plant adaptation to the environment and proteostasis in the plant immune system.
The merits valued for each project vary, including training in biophysics, biotechnology, mathematics, biology, computer science, molecular biology, synthetic biology, microbial ecology, programming, structural biology, virology, immunology, nanomedicine, among other disciplines. Scientific curiosity, learning ability, and teamwork are encouraged.
