We have discovered that cancers increase the production/accumulation of abnormal ncRNA, which activate the RNA sensing pathway in cells of the tumor microenvironment through extracellular vesicles (tEVs), (Biagini et al., submitted). The project, funded by AIRC (www.airc.it/english), aims at characterizing the effects of the RNA sensing pathway in tumors and associated immune cells using cell type specific approaches. We will identify the endogenous RNA species involved in signaling to the RNA sensing pathway, and the biogenesis of these ncRNA cargos in tEVs. We have fully funded post-doc and pre-doc/PhD positions to investigate the roles of the RNA sensing pathway in tumor progression and metastasis formation and identify drugs modulating this process.
Position as Researcher available at the Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo in the research group of Professor Cinzia Progida. The position is for a period of 16 months. The candidate for this position will work on a project funded by the Norwegian Cancer Society. The goal of this project is to identify and characterize molecules and pathways involved in lysosome transformation in cancer cells, and how this is coupled with the development of the cancer cell migratory and invasive ability. Our group has access to the National imaging platform NorMIC Oslo. The Department of Biosciences harbors also an EM-lab, the Norwegian Sequencing Centre (NSC) and Proteomics services. The work includes collaboration with national and international groups and the candidate will have the possibility to spend a short visiting period in the lab of prof. Roberto Zoncu at the University of California, Berkeley.
Avviso di selezione n° 5/AR/2021-CIR-CNRBiOmics-IBIOM-BA per il conferimento di 1 assegno di ricerca
A one year junior research position within the TRANS-ALS project supported by the Fondazione Regionale per la Ricerca Biomedica (FRRB) in Lombardia is available at the CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Milan, Italy.
L'Associazione Alberto Monroy, per onorare la memoria di Alberto e Anna Monroy, bandisce un concorso per una borsa di studio "A. Monroy" di € 5.500,00 da fruirsi per frequentare il corso: "Embryology: Concepts and Techniques in Modern Developmental Biology", presso il Marine Biological Laboratory di Woods Hole, MA (USA) dall'8 giugno al 21 luglio 2018