The Institute
The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) is an international biomedical research institute of excellence, based in Barcelona, Spain, with more than 400 scientists from 44 countries. The CRG is composed by an interdisciplinary, motivated and creative scientific team which is supported both by a flexible and efficient administration and by high-end and innovative technologies.
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The role
Pancreatic islets play a key role in maintaining glucose homeostasis by secreting insulin. Dysfunction and loss of insulin-producing beta cells leads to diabetes, a disease increasing worldwide that represents a major health challenge. While extensive research has started to uncover the transcriptional networks that control differentiation and function of beta cells, and showed that diabetes genetic risk variants often alter gene expression regulation, little is known about the roles of post-transcriptional mechanisms such alternative splicing in islet biology and diabetes.
We are looking for a talented and highly motivated postdoc to join a new research line of the lab funded by ERC, La Caixa and EFSD that aims at understanding the role of a recently discovered alternative splicing program in islet function, glucose metabolism and diabetes. The successful candidate will utilize knockout mouse models and in vivo metabolic assays, combined with ex vivo islet culture and molecular and physiology approaches. The goal is to understand the impact of islet-specific microexons in endocrine pancreas development and regulated insulin secretion, and the overall effect on glucose metabolism.
About the lab
The Irimia lab is an international and multi-disciplinary team focused on elucidating the role of alternative splicing in vertebrate development and evolution. Much of our work focuses on microexons in the nervous system and in endocrine pancreas, a splicing program that we have originally discovered and to which we have made key contributions.
In our lab, we combine computational approaches (comparative bulk and single-cell transcriptomics and functional genomics) with experiments using in vitro and in vivo systems (mouse, zebrafish, and fruitfly). In addition, this project will be developed in close collaboration with two senior groups at CRG: the Ferrer lab (Regulatory genomics and diabetes) and the Valcárcel lab (Regulation of alternative pre-RNA splicing during development and disease), which will bring complementary expertise and provide further opportunities for scientific discussions and personal developmental.
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