The Muscle Development and Repair team (https://www.boukhatmilab.com/) at the Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes (IGDR) is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to investigate how adult muscles build and regenerate upon injury, using Drosophila as a model. The project is funded by an ATIP-Avenir and AFM starting grants.

Project. Muscle stem (satellite) cells (MuSCs) ensure the functional homeostasis of skeletal muscles as well as their regeneration upon injury. Our goal is to understand how MuSCs sense signals provided by their environment and engage a series of dramatic changes in cellular organization and fate, to repair the muscles. To interrogate these processes, the candidate will take the advantage of newly designed Drosophila transgenic tools and imaging approaches to track MuSCs in vivo and identify genes regulating their behavior during muscle repair.

Location. The recruited researcher will be part of a newly established team led by Hadi Boukhatmi at the IGDR, which is a joint CNRS/University Rennes 1 research unit of ~200 international researchers and staff (https://igdr.univ-rennes1.fr/en). The IGDR is located on the campus of the University of Rennes in the capital of the Brittany Region in France. It offers a dynamic and collaborative scientific environment that covers research in genetics and genomics, epigenetic regulation, cell/developmental biology and structural biology.

Profile and application. The candidate should have a PhD in Life Sciences and interest in studying muscle development and regeneration. Candidates with strong experience in cell/developmental biology, fly genetics, genome wide analysis and in vivo live imaging are encouraged to apply. Please send a cover letter describing your relevant work experience and research interests, a CV, and the contact information for two references to Hadi Boukhatmi hadi.boukhatmi@univ-rennes1.fr, before September 15th 2021. The contract duration is two to three years (depending on experience), with a flexible starting date between November 2021 and early 2022.