Postdoctoral Researcher in Dynamic Control of Ciliary Transport

The postdoc will establish and optimize the auxin-induced degradation (AID) system in C. elegans to enable precise temporal control over ciliary protein activity. This dynamic manipulation will be used to probe the functional roles of intraflagellar transport (IFT) components and ciliary membrane proteins, linking their single-molecule dynamics to changes in ciliary architecture and function. The successful candidate will work at the interface of molecular biology, quantitative imaging, and biophysics, developing transgenic worm strains, integrating AID with advanced fluorescence microscopy and collaborating with theoretical biophysicists to model IFT dynamics.