From owner-dros@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Thu Jun 17 15:18:15 2004 Return-Path: X-Original-To: dros-outgoing Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 86D5E7D1BE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:18:15 +0100 (BST) X-Original-To: dros-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2B77D182 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:18:15 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6020) id 9B9177D1AF; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:18:13 +0100 (BST) X-Original-To: bionet-drosophila@net.bio.net Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9647D15F for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:41:40 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id F40787D1BB; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:41:38 +0100 (BST) To: bionet-drosophila@net.bio.net From: creg@uab.edu (Creg Darby) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: postdoc position available Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research Message-ID: <1C730648-BFBC-11D8-B422-000393DB40FE@uab.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-To: dros@net.bio.net X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C0FB7D15F for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:41:38 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from vera.dpo.uab.edu (vera2.dpo.uab.edu [138.26.1.213]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44977D140 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:41:35 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from uab.edu (138.26.20.183:49219) by vera.dpo.uab.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <0.0019E821@vera.dpo.uab.edu>; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:41:35 -0500 X-To: dros@net.bio.net X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:18:13 +0100 (BST) Sender: owner-dros@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk A postdoctoral position is available to study C. elegans bah genes. When C. elegans is exposed to the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the cause of bubonic plague, the worm head becomes covered by a biofilm that blocks feeding (Nature 2002, 417:243). This is a model for the mechanism by which the bacteria colonize their natural vector, the flea. The Darby lab is characterizing C. elegans mutants that are Bah -- biofilm absent on head (International Worm Meeting 2003, abstract 288). The lab, which also studies other interactions between nematodes and bacteria, is in the Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Molecular biology experience is essential, and experience with C. elegans or another model genetic system is highly desirable. Please send email containing CV, PDF reprints, contact information for references, and a brief description of previous and current research to creg@uab.edu. Creg Darby, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology University of Alabama at Birmingham creg@uab.edu --- .