Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Job title:

Postdoctoral Analysis Fellow

Firm

College of Edinburgh

Job description

Job Description:

UE07: £37,099.00 to £44,263.00 each year (A revised wage vary for this grade of £39,347 to £46,974 is deliberate to take impact from Spring 2024).

Faculty of Medication and Veterinary Medication / Deanery of Medical Sciences / Institute for Regeneration and Restore / Centre for Irritation Analysis.

Mounted-Time period for 12 months.

Full time – 35 hours per week.

The Alternative:

We’re in search of a extremely motivated postdoctoral fellow to pursue targets on our CRUK funded Biology to Prevention Venture award. The undertaking and PI crew will present useful resource and help so that you can develop a novel transgenic mannequin system in zebrafish, aimed toward inducing somatic mutations with exact temporal management to mannequin the earliest occasions of tumour initiation. The bioinformatician on the crew will facilitate you to carry out single-cell-Omics evaluation to seize mobile state adjustments triggered by the mutation in addition to environmental elements, thus probably addressing the important thing query in most cancers biology: How cells carrying oncogenic mutation transition towards a tumour initiating state. This is a chance to contribute to the analysis neighborhood targeted on tumour initiation for higher most cancers prevention and early detection. That is additionally a chance to launch your personal profession by pioneering a mannequin system with a key purpose in thoughts but additionally pertains to broader impression within the zebrafish illness modelling subject.

Your expertise and attributes for fulfillment:

• A PhD in a life sciences topic and vital confirmed laboratory expertise and data of the analysis subject as anticipated (Fascinating).
• Experience and extremely competent in molecular cloning & CRISPR applied sciences.
• Proof of a powerful track-record in some facet of cell and/or developmental biology and/or most cancers biology.
• Proof of a powerful work ethic, unbiased pondering and skill to work as a part of a analysis crew.
• Readiness and skill to: contribute novel concepts to the undertaking, be taught new methods as the necessity arises and overcome experimental difficulties. Vigorously preserve high quality of analysis information generated.

Click on to view a replica of the complete (opens new browser tab).

As a valued member of our crew you possibly can count on:

• A aggressive wage.
• You should have supportive and compassionate mentors and your profession growth is on the coronary heart of a profitable undertaking.
• The Feng lab is situated on the Centre for Irritation Analysis, Institute for Regeneration and Restore, you can be a part of a various and vibrant worldwide neighborhood with the Institute for Regeneration and Restore.
• As a postdoctoral fellow you should have entry to a variety {of professional} coaching programs workshops and inner ECR oriented funding alternatives for enhancing your profession growth.
• College of Edinburgh present Complete Workers Advantages, akin to a beneficiant vacation entitlement, an outlined advantages pension scheme, employees reductions, family-friendly initiatives, and versatile work choices. Try the complete checklist on our

(opens in a brand new tab) and use our reward calculator to find the full worth of your pay and advantages.

Championing equality, variety and inclusion:

The College of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our dedication to advance gender equality in increased training. We’re members of the Race Equality Constitution and we’re additionally Stonewall Scotland Variety Champions, actively selling LGBT equality.

Previous to any employment commencing with the College you can be required to proof your proper to work within the UK. Additional data is obtainable on our (opens new browser tab).

Key dates to notice:

The time limit for purposes is 8 April 2024.

As a part of this utility, you might be required to submit a doc of no multiple web page detailing the way you meet every of the important standards as outlined on the job description.

Except acknowledged in any other case the closing time for purposes is 11:59pm GMT. In case you are making use of exterior the UK the closing time on our adverts routinely adjusts to your browsers native time zone.

Interviews are anticipated to be held on the week commencing twenty second April 2024.

The College is ready to sponsor the employment of worldwide staff on this position. If profitable, a global applicant requiring sponsorship to work within the UK might want to fulfill the UK Dwelling Workplace’s English Language necessities and apply for and safe a Expert Employee Visa.

About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive College, we’re right here to deal with tomorrow’s biggest challenges. Between now and 2030 we’ll do this with a values-led strategy to educating, analysis and innovation, and thru the energy of {our relationships}, each domestically and globally.

Concerning the Staff:

The Deanery of Medical Sciences (Head, Professor Hilary Critchley) has a global repute in medical primarily based analysis by the mixture of fundamental, medical and translational science and epidemiological research, and as part of the Faculty of Medication and Veterinary Medication, presents unparalleled alternatives for ground-breaking interdisciplinary analysis within the bio-medical sciences.

The Deanery contains 5 interdisciplinary Analysis Centres: the College of Edinburgh/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences (Director, Professor Andy Baker), the Centre for Medical Mind Sciences (Director, Professor Colin Smith), the Centre for Irritation Analysis (Director, Professor David Dockrell), the Centre for Regenerative Medication (Director, Professor Stuart Forbes), the MRC Centre for Reproductive Well being (Co-Administrators, Professor Richard Anderson and Professor Hilary Critchley) – of which the latter three Centres comprise the Institute for Restore and Regeneration; in addition to the Edinburgh Imaging Facility (Director, Professor Dave Newby) the Edinburgh Medical Analysis Facility (Director, Professor Dave Newby) and the Edinburgh Dental Institute (Director, Professor Angus Partitions).

Medical Sciences employs round 970 members of educational and help employees and has over 550 Honorary members who contribute considerably to educating and analysis. The Deanery is a significant contributor to the undergraduate MBChB curriculum and has roughly 1000 registered publish graduate college students learning a spread of PhD, MD, taught and analysis MSc and on-line distance studying programmes. The Deanery might be discovered on the Bioquarter Campus (Queen’s Medical Analysis Institute, Chancellor’s Constructing, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medication and the Royal Hospital for Kids and Younger Folks), the Lauriston Constructing, Lauriston Place, the Western Common Hospital and the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.

Anticipated wage

Location

Edinburgh – Midlothian

Job date

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 05:00:07 GMT

To assist us observe our recruitment effort, please point out in your e-mail/cowl letter the place (globalvacancies.org) you noticed this job posting.