Computational Post-Doctoral Research Assistant

Division: Blizard Institute
Wage: £40,223 – £47,178 each year
Reference: 1525
Location: Whitechapel
Date posted: 12 March 2024
Deadline: 9 April 2024

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Overview

In regards to the Position
This full-time PDRA would notably swimsuit an bold early profession researcher with an curiosity in discovering endogenous RNAs and peptides that mediate anti-tumour immunity and that are epigenetically managed. The candidate would work in a dynamic and numerous group at Queen Mary College (QMUL) and with exterior co-investigators and collaborators and this work would inform future most cancers therapies and vaccines. The position may characterize a stepping stone for somebody fascinated about establishing their very own lab afterwards or growing their expertise, community and alternatives and there are potentialities for versatile or part-time working.

About You
The profitable candidate will lead their very own venture centered on how an epigenetic complicated referred to as the HUSH complicated is concerned in tumour immune evasion. This will probably be achieved through the use of knowledge from The Most cancers Genome Atlas and from TRACERx and outcomes will probably be validated in samples from lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma sufferers, with assist from different lab members conducting wet-lab experiments. The postholder may also advise different group members in their very own bioinformatics analyses of RNA-sequencing and chromatin profiling datasets. All bioinformatics analyses will probably be run on the high-performance computing cluster, Apocrita at QMUL and thru assist from co-investigators and collaborators.

In regards to the Institute

The Blizard Institute was established in 2003 and is one in all six Institutes inside the College of Medication and Dentistry, QMUL. The Institute includes roughly 350 workers based mostly in 4 tutorial Centres and one Public Engagement Centre and helps a mixed complete of c750 postgraduate analysis and taught college students. The Institute goals to ship excellence in all features of analysis, instructing and scientific service.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary College of London, we consider {that a} variety of concepts helps us obtain the beforehand unthinkable.

All through our historical past, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives via tutorial excellence. And we proceed to dwell and breathe this spirit as we speak, not as a result of it’s merely ‘the best factor to do’ however for what it helps us obtain and the mental brilliance it delivers.

We proceed to embrace variety of thought and opinion in all the pieces we do, within the perception that when views collide, disciplines work together, and views intersect, really unique thought takes kind.

Advantages
We provide aggressive salaries, entry to a beneficiant pension scheme, 30 days’ go away each year (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket mortgage scheme and entry to a complete vary of non-public {and professional} growth alternatives. As well as, we provide a spread of labor life stability and household pleasant, inclusive employment insurance policies, versatile working preparations, and campus services together with an on-site nursery on the Mile Finish campus.

Queen Mary’s dedication to our numerous and inclusive group is embedded in our appointments processes. Affordable changes will probably be made at every stage of the recruitment course of for any candidate with a incapacity. We’re open to contemplating purposes from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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