CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Effector Protein Structural Biology

• Do you have a PhD in protein structural analysis, bioinformatics, or molecular plant pathogen interactions?
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CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.

This role will sit within the Crop Immunity Group at CSIRO Agriculture and Food. The group has a strong focus on rust disease resistance research with the overall goal to prevent losses in wheat production due to the impact of rust diseases through improved resistance breeding and engineered resistance approaches.

The successful candidate will focus on comparative structural analyses of rust effector proteins to identify common structural features or patterns among immune-recognised effectors. This will include applying deep learning-based effector and structure prediction tools in a computational structural biology approach to examine the evolution of novel effector variants that escape recognition and diversification of effector families in rust fungi.