Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Division: College of Organic & Behavioural Sciences
Wage: £37,182 – £40,223 each year (Grade 4)
Reference: 1548
Location: Mile Finish
Date posted: 12 March 2024
Deadline: 9 April 2024

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Overview

Concerning the Function

We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Analysis Assistant to work with Dr John Viles and his analysis group on a BBSRC funded undertaking entitled “Amyloids and Oligomers. Curvilinear and annular constructions and their interplay with exosomes and entire cells”.

The profitable candidate will use a spread of biophysical approaches to check Alzheimer’s illness by revealing the interplay of amyloid fibrils and oligomers with lipid membranes. You’ll be a part of a multidisciplinary, numerous, inclusive group with frequent conferences, interactions, and high-quality mentoring.

About You

You’ll have a PhD (or near completion) in Biochemistry, Biophysics, or related self-discipline and have a longtime monitor file of success in high-quality authentic analysis. Earlier expertise in among the following is very fascinating: Amyloids, TEM, membrane vesicles, amyloid kinetics, recombinant expression, protein purification, cryo-EM, single-particle evaluation, cryo-ET, AFM, cell tradition and patch-clamp electrophysiology.  You can be a extremely motivated particular person and have the flexibility to work as a part of a group and prepare others within the analysis group. Glorious analysis administration and presentation abilities are additionally important. 

Concerning the College

The College of Organic and Behavioural Sciences has a powerful analysis output and demanding academic requirements for its college students, however all members profit from a excessive stage of educational and social integration. We’re dedicated to equality of alternative and maintain a Silver Athena SWAN Award.

About Queen Mary

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

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

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that nice concepts can and may come from wherever. It’s an strategy that has introduced outcomes throughout the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

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, actually authentic thought takes kind.

Advantages

In return, we provide 30 days’ go away each year, entry to a pension scheme, a season ticket mortgage scheme and aggressive salaries. We additionally provide enhanced household pleasant go away, and an on-site nursery on the Mile Finish campus. Additionally, you will work with a pleasant group, with private improvement alternatives.

Queen Mary’s dedication to our numerous and inclusive neighborhood is embedded in our appointments processes. Cheap changes can be made at every stage of the recruitment course of for any candidate with a incapacity.

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