Research assistant position in glucosinolate transporter biology

Opportunity summary

Employment type: FULLTIME. A 6-month research assistant position is available at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. The research assistant will be financed by a grant from the Villum Foundation to Professor Barbara Ann Halkier. The position is open from 1 October 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. Project background The VILLUM Investigator project has focus on Plant Transportomics. Transport of metabolites acrosscellular borders is essential for plant fitness and survival and has proven important in controlling key quality traits in agriculture. Yet, the function of thousands of transporters is largely unknown. As a unconventional idea we use plant extract as substrates. The project aims at creating a first-of-its-kind transportomics database that includes substrate specificity of every transporter in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, thale cress. Moreover, the chemical language of plants will be decoded by mapping the metabolites exuded and the transporters present at the root during stress conditions when intense communication occurs. The knowledge gained and molecular tools generated will have application in sustainable agriculture. Job description Glucosinolates in Arabidopsis will be used as a model to elucidate the molecular mechanisms governing the transport of defence metabolites from their sites of synthesis to the rhizosphere1 …

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