All activities of the Graduate Programme will be held in English.
Additional funds are available for travel.
The position is available immediately in the Department of Botany . Glycoproteins and polysaccharides in scaly green algae form complexes of distinct size and shape termed scales. We have isolated several SAPs from the green alga Scherffelia dubia and obtained peptide sequences for several of them. The successful candidate will first characterise SAPs at the molecular level and a later stage investigate the function of SAPs using a combined biochemical, molecular and cellular approach. The project is part of a larger research programme focusing on the structure, function and evolution of the ECM in plants.