Phd-positions (M/F/d), E13 - Oldenburg, Deutschland - Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

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Oldenburg, Deutschland

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Lena Wagner

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Beschreibung

The Quantum Biology and Computational Physics Group (Department of Physics) at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg offers

2 PhD-positions (M/F/d)
(TV-L E13 / 65 %)

for a maximum of three years each in the research project "Cryptochrome-based magnetoreception". The positions will ideally start as soon as possible and should lead to successful dissertations.

The project is part of the DFG funded SFB 1372 "Magnetoreception and navigation in vertebrates:
from biophysics to brain and behaviour".

The overall aim of project I is to carry out quantum mechanical simulations to guide behavioural studies and calcium imaging measurements of neuronal activity delivered through other projects of SFB 1372.

The project aims to determine the optimum radiofrequency electromagnetic field conditions for probing the identity and magnetic properties of radicals in a cryptochrome magnetoreceptor in vivo.

The project will also employ an information theory approach in combination with spin dynamics simulations to understand how a light-dependent magnetoreceptor could distinguish changes in light intensity from changes in magnetic field direction.

The overall aim of project II is to computationally determine the binding regimes of cryptochromes to cellular membranes as well as to the identified protein binding partners (including long wavelength opsins and subunits of the G protein).

The project aims to determine whether activation of cryptochrome (formation of a radical pair) affects its interaction with binding partners, e.g.

through structural rearrangements. This project will employ a combination of classical molecular dynamics simulations, machine learning techniques and quantum chemistry calculations.