At Kiel University�in northern Germany, the following position will be
available from 1 January 2026:

*Postdoc *(m/f/d)

as part of an ERC project. The position is initially limited to three
years.

The aim of the project is to uncover the genetic basis of the 
*horizontal transfer of accessory chromosomes* between fungal strains 
and species.

Our recent work shows that transfers of entire chromosomes occur
frequently, and in a chromosome-specific manner, within the genus
/Metarhizium/, a group of entomopathogenic fungi widely used as biological
control agents (see: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2316284121
). We will leverage this high frequency to investigate the molecular
mechanisms of horizontal chromosome transfer, a phenomenon also described
in several important plant pathogens and therefore of broad relevance.

Further details can be found here:
https://fungal-evolutionary-genetics.de/open-positions/ 

For more information, please contact Dr. Michael Habig
(mhabig@bot.uni-kiel.de).

Dr. Michael Habig
Kiel University
Am Botanischen Garten 1-11
D-24118 Kiel
Germany
Tel.: +49 431 880 5116
https://fungal-evolutionary-genetics.de/