Positions

Undergraduate students/Summer Research Interns 

Positions for Winter/Summer 2025 are already filled. 

Next available position: tentatively January 2026; students should have a competitive GPA (>3.8) and be highly motivated. For intern positions, please apply with a CV and transcripts in February for the Fall and November for January to still be able to submit funding applications, sending applications to oeffingerlab[at]gmail.com

Graduate students (for 2025/26)

The lab is looking for highly-motivated Ph.D. students for 2025/26, with an interest in nucleolar biology to study the regulation of ribosomal DNA damage repair pathways or an interest in nuclear-cytoplasmic transport to study the function of Mlp1/TPR in mRNA export.

Students should have a high GPA (>3.8) and, ideally, experience in basic laboratory techniques (e.g., cloning and DNA gel electrophoresis; yeast, bacterial or mammalian cell culture; western blotting; etc.). Applications should include a letter of motivation, CV, most recent transcripts and either two letters or contacts of reference, sending applications to oeffingerlab[at]gmail.com

Post-doctoral Researchers

The lab is looking for postdocs with interests in RNA and/or ribosome biology, nuclear-cytoplasmic mRNA transport, ALS and/or neurodegenerative disease, with experience in proteomics, molecular biology and biochemistry, and computational biology.