You would like to join our team ?
We are always interested in having new forces join us, and in hiring enthousiastic and curious young reasearchers at any career stage. If you’re interested, I encourage you to contact me and provide information listed below.
We have fun projects to work on, and cool unpublished results on which to build fun new steps. If you’re a student, I’m available for as much supervision as you need and I care about your success. If you’re a more senior researcher, this is the opportunity for you to make a difference in a lab that needs you, and, if you want it, to emerge as a promissing early career researcher. In all cases, I would love to accompany you towards your goals.
PhD Students
There is currently an opening to do a PhD in 2024-2027. This goes through a competition for a PhD fellowship from the doctoral school ED62. Information on the application procedure is available on the ED62 website (Aix Marseille University). Deadline for application is May 13th, 2024. Start date would be 10/2024. Description of the proposed project (in french) is available here. Please contact me (see contact page) to discuss about the possibility of applying.
Post-docs
We currently are enthusiastic about a project aiming to investigate skeletal muscle regeneration in healthy and diseased muscle (see here), and to explore the mechanisms leading to fibrosis and adipose infiltrations in a range of muscular dystrophies, and we’d love to identify a post-doctoral candidate to work with us on it. Contact me for more information on the project, and to discuss how you may contribute, and what source of funding you may apply to.
This project requires knowledge on muscle biology and experience with mouse genetics and/or with cell culture and microscopy. Experience with advanced imaging and image analysis and programming would be a plus.
If you consider joining the lab, there are multiple opportunities of funding. I can help identifying options and selecting the ones that are ideal for you, and doing my best to help.
If you are interested in applying for a post-doctoral position, please send a CV, with a description of your past work and future research interests, and names of at least three academic references, and a letter explaining why you consider joining us, and how you will contribute to our research.
Master Students
The Helmbacher lab is affiliated at the Integrative Biology and Physiology (website in english here) and at the Neuroschool Masters programs at Aix-Marseille University. Please apply to one of these programs, and contact me to arrange a lab rotation, by sending a CV (including courses you have followed, and scores), and a motivation letter explaining why you want to work in our lab. Funding for PhD is attributed by the Doctoral School in life sciences (EDSVS). We can also accept students affiliated to other universities.
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