PhD fellowship in DNA Replication and Early Mammalian Development at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Official occupation: ph.d., sundhedsvidenskab. Employment conditions: Almindelige vilkår. Employer CVR: 29979812.

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Public Sector, Education & Impact (occupation evidence). We are offering a fully funded three-year PhD fellowship in the Halliwell Group at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (ICMM), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The position is funded through the Novo Nordisk Foundation Hallas-Møller Emerging Investigator Grant and will commence on 1 April 2027.

Our group and research The Halliwell Group investigates one of the most fundamental questions in biology: how life successfully begins from a single cell. We study how DNA replication is established during the earliest stages of mammalian development and how failures in this process contribute to genome instability, infertility and pregnancy loss.

Our research combines developmental biology, genome biology, molecular genetics and embryology with state-of-the-art genomic technologies. We are particularly interested in understanding how the maternal and paternal genomes are reprogrammed immediately after fertilisation and how this process ensures faithful genome duplication during the first embryonic cell divisions1 …