Umeå University - with its 29,000 students and over 4,000 employees - is an organisation in constant change and development. Umeå University conducts groundbreaking research within several areas - several in which we are among the best in the world - within others regarded as the leaders in Sweden. We are one of Sweden’s largest providers of education and offer a broad and attractive range of courses and programmes. Our campus constitutes an inspiring environment for everyone that studies and works here. We wish to co-operate with companies and organisations throughout the Umeå region and all over the world.

Four post-doctoral fellowships
at the Chemical Biological Centre

The Chemical Biological Centre, KBC, at Umeå University hereby advertises four two-year post-doctoral fellowships for collaborative projects within the centre. The fellowships have been made possible through a generous contribution from The Kempe Foundation.

The Chemical Biological Centre, KBC, at Umeå University comprises five departments with almost 600 employees and about 200 PhD students.

For more information on KBC, see www.kbc.umu.se. For a general presentation of Umeå and the university, see www.umu.se/english/ and the webpage of the university’s international office: www.umu.se/international_office.

Titles of the four projects are:

• Small-molecule modulation of protein folding
  Ref no 223-2185-09
• Water-binding to the oxygen-evolving complex in
  photosystem II and to relevant manganese model complexes
  Ref no 223-2186-09
• Inferring environmental information from varved lake sediments using a geochemical approach
  Ref no 223-2187-09
• Structural studies of DNA polymerase epsilon
  Ref no 223-2188-09

A detailed description of the various projects and details for the
application can be found at: www.kbc.umu.se

Union information is available from SACO, +46-(0)90-786 53 65, SEKO, +46-(0)90-786 52 96 and ST, +46-(0)90-786 54 31.

Your complete application, marked with appropriate reference no, should be sent to medel@diariet.umu.se (state the reference number as subject) or to the Registrar, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden to arrive September 30, 2009 at the latest.

We look forward to receiving your application!