Last application date Aug 10, 2024 00:00
Department LA23 - Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health
Contract Limited duration
Degree You hold a Master’s degree (preferably) in bioscience engineering, biochemistry or related disciplines with distinction (the degree should be obtained at the moment of appointment.
Occupancy rate 100%
Vacancy type Research staff
The Project
BIOCHROMA, Exploring the functional potential of bacterial pigments for innovative food and feed applications, is a Flemish-funded project involving several research groups of Ghent University and University of Antwerp. BIOCHROMA will explore the functional potential of bacterial pigments for innovative food and feed applications, aiming to find natural pigments to replace synthetic ones. While numerous studies have focused on plant-based pigments, the potential of bacterial-derived pigments remains underexplored. Therefore, BIOCHROMA will focus on the potential of pigments derived from unusual bacteria.
PhD position within the project
In this specific PhD project, the main objective is to optimize the growth and production conditions of different selected strains to have maximum pigment production. Furthermore, emphasis will go on extraction of the pigments, and upscaling the optimized processes. If yields remain too low with natural microorganisms, synthetic biology tools will be used to increase the pigment production.
The work will be carried out mainly at the research unit VEG-i-TEC, Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health (Ghent University – Campus Kortrijk), while some work will be done at MEMO research group at CSB, Department of Biotechnology (Ghent University – Campus Coupure).
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
Submit the following documents by email to Katleen.Raes@ugent.be AND to Marjan.Demey@ugent.be:
All required documents need to be submitted, merged in 1 single pdf-file.
Subject line in the email: Biochroma – Application (Name_Surname).
Final closing date is 10th of August 2024 (23h59 CET), but applications will be regularly reviewed prior to the deadline, hence, early application is recommended.
We do not accept late applications.
Selection procedure:
1. Preselection based on the provided documents.
2. Selection based on interviews.
For more information about this vacancy, please contact Prof. Katleen Raes (Katleen.Raes@UGent.be) or Prof. Marjan De Mey (Marjan.Demey@ugent.be)
Ghent University is one of the top 100 universities in the Dutch language area, with more than 44,000 students and 15,000 staff members.
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