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  <id type="integer">120209</id>
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  <source>Naturejobs.com - Ecommerce</source>
  <company-url>http://www.unil.ch/deo/page57972.html</company-url>
  <employer-url>http://www.unil.ch/deo/page57972.html</employer-url>
  <application-email>tatiana.petrova@unil.ch</application-email>
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  <employer-name>University of Lausanne, Switzerland</employer-name>
  <company-name>University of Lausanne, Switzerland</company-name>
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    <![CDATA[Postdoctoral position is available in a newly established group of Tatiana Petrova at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

The topic of research will be on the mechanisms of cancer progression and metastasis, and lymphatic vasculature. Methods include transgenic and knockout mouse models, ex-vivo culture, cell lineage studies, genome-wide chromatin location analysis and gene expression profiling.

Working language of the laboratory is English.

We are looking for enthusiastic and independent person with recent (0-3 years) Ph.D. in Genetics, Biochemistry or Cell Biology. Experience in the generation and analysis of knockout/transgenic mice is required, as well as at least one first-author publication in a peer-reviewed journal with impact factor >6.

For more information please visit current web page http://www.unil.ch/deo/page57972.html

To apply please send your CV, names of at least two referees and a short informal description of yourself as a single PDF file to: tatiana.petrova@unil.ch

Representative publications:

1. Norrmén, C. et al. FOXC2 controls formation and maturation of lymphatic collecting vessels through cooperation with NFATc1 (2009). J. Cell. Biol., 185, 439-57 

2. Petrova, T.V. et al. (2008) Homeobox transcription factor PROX1 induces progression of colon cancer by promoting the transition from benign to highly dysplastic phenotype, Cancer Cell, 13, 407-19

3. Petrova T.V, et al (2004) Defective valves and abnormal mural cell recruitment underlie lymphatic vascular failure in lymphedema distichiasis. Nature Medicine, 10, 974-981.

4. Alitalo, K., et al. (2005) Lymphangiogenesis in development and human disease. Nature, 38, 946-953]]>
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  <location>Lausanne, Switzerland</location>
  <title>Postdoctoral positions in Vascular and Cancer Biology</title>
  <created-on type="datetime">Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:17:56 -0500</created-on>
  <expires-on type="datetime">Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</expires-on>
  <url>http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/120209-Postdoctoral-positions-in-Vascular-and-Cancer-Biology</url>
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