The student will gain experience in the whole spectrum of modern structural biology techniques with a focus on X-ray crystallography. Techniques range from molecular biology and protein expression, biochemical and biophysical analyses to X-ray crystallography, in silico structural analysis and confocal and electron microscopy. The work will benefit from our expertise in glycoprotein complexes, established mammalian cell culture facilities, highly parallelized approaches and the developments and ready access to the DIAMOND synchrotron site. Additionally, the student will have the opportunity to interface with a network of collaborations in Oxford, UK and international to relate his/her structural and molecular results to the biomedical and functional in vivo context.