University of Edinburgh
Job title:
Postdoctoral Computational Biologist
Firm
College of Edinburgh
Job description
Job Description:
UE08 £45,585 to £54,395 each year (A revised wage vary for this grade of £48,350 to £59,421 is deliberate to take impact from Spring 2024)
Centre for Irritation Analysis
Mounted Time period (i.e. momentary) for 22 months
Full-time 35 hours per week
The Alternative:
Limiting tissue damage brought on by neutrophilic irritation stays a major problem in inflammatory lung illness. This submit, funded by a Wellcome Discovery award, will present the profitable candidate with the chance to steer the evaluation and improvement of neutrophil proteomic applied sciences to outline neutrophil operate and phenotype in well being and illness states. The post-holder will additional develop computational pipelines, combine proteomics with metabolomics and transcriptional knowledge units and contribute to manuscripts for publication and future grant purposes and be inspired to develop impartial fellowship alternatives.
This submit is full-time (35 hours per week), nonetheless, we’re open to contemplating part-time or versatile working patterns. We’re additionally open to contemplating requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual foundation) that mixes a mixture of distant and common on-campus working.
Your abilities and attributes for achievement:
- PhD in computational biology with a give attention to immunology
- Expertise in engaged on a venture with a staff of researchers, and skill to work together successfully with different members of the analysis staff and the PI
- Demonstrated abilities in organisation, finishing up evaluation independently, consideration to element, and time administration
- Demonstrated troubleshooting abilities and profitable software of newly discovered strategies
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Interviews shall be held the week of the 18th March 2024.
Concerning the staff
The Institute for Regeneration and Restore (IRR) is a big multidisciplinary cross-college institute composed of three world-class analysis centres. Our scientists and clinicians examine tissue regeneration and restore to advance human well being and reproductive outcomes throughout two state-of-the-art buildings with capability for over 1,000 workers and college students. The institute gives a fertile and dynamic atmosphere, which permits its researchers {and professional} companies workers to flourish.
CIR
The Centre for Irritation Analysis (CIR; Director, Professor David Dockrell) leverages peer-reviewed interdisciplinary analysis programmes and focussed collaboration, to characterise mechanisms of acute and persistent irritation. The CIR goals to characterise what promotes well being on the molecular stage so as to forestall the dangerous penalties of irritation in scientific drugs.
Effort is focused at: inhibiting the initiation of irritation by blocking particular molecular triggers and by modulating mobile and tissue responses leading to organ dysfunction; discovering new approaches to modulate established inflammatory responses to restrict tissue damage; and selling secure decision of irritation to revive wholesome construction and performance of tissue.
A selected focus is on tissue fibrosis – the results of longstanding dangerous irritation, with programmes wanting on the mechanisms underpinning decision of fibrosis and its non-invasive monitoring and imaging.
The CIR has a broad curiosity in inflammatory illness in a spread of tissues together with within the lungs, kidney, liver, pancreas, bowel, bone, joints, pores and skin, coronary heart and mind. There’s in-depth evaluation of stimuli that induce or modify irritation with detailed programmes contemplating the function of intercourse, improvement, auto-immunity, an infection and different environmental influences. Importantly, the ideas derived could have prepared software to inflammatory and reparatory responses in nearly all physiological and pathological settings, together with most cancers and an infection (not least COVID-19). Translation is aided by a dedication to novel diagnostic and imaging modalities and our proximity to affected person teams and wholesome volunteers within the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
The CIR shall be positioned from 2023 in state-of-the-art services within the Institute of Regeneration and Restore. Our analysis goals align intently with the imaginative and prescient of IRR and different centres inside IRR, to advertise human well being by in-depth understanding of tissue regeneration and restore, whereas growing a multi-pronged translational programme to impact therapeutic innovation on this space. IRR is positioned on the BioQuarter Campus, Edinburgh.
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Anticipated wage
Location
Edinburgh – Midlothian
Job date
Solar, 28 Jan 2024 06:01:39 GMT
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