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🎓 PhD Student Position (Funded) – Time-Resolved Structural Biology of Color Vision 80% 🏫 University of Zurich – Department of Chemistry 📍 Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭 🗓️ Start of employment: February 1, 2026 🔬 Project in the team of Dr. Polina Isaikina, hosted by Prof. Jörg Standfuss at UZH & Paul Scherrer Institute ✅ Focus on activation mechanism of cone opsins – proteins behind human color vision ✅ Techniques: Time-resolved X-ray crystallography at Swiss XFEL & single-particle cryo-EM at UZH ✅ Protein production & functional characterization included ✅ Embedded in the Life Science Zurich Graduate School 👩‍🎓 Profile ✅ Master’s in biochemistry, chemistry, structural biology, biophysics, or related (by Feb 2026) ✅ Plus: cryo-EM, membrane protein biochemistry/biophysics, X-ray crystallography, spectroscopy ✅ Strong motivation for interdisciplinary frontier research 👉 More Info here: https://lnkd.in/gx_4QJns #PhD #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #XrayCrystallography #UZH #Switzerland #Biophysics #Biochemistry #PhDOpportunity