Postdoctoral Research Scientist

We’re looking for a extremely motivated Postdoctoral Analysis Scientist to hitch the analysis Group of Professor Jonathan Grimes, positioned in Division for Structural Biology, on the Nuffield Division of Drugs. You’ll be part of a group of scientists aiming to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of Influenza virus replication by utilizing a mix of structural and molecular biology.

You’ll be accountable for managing your individual educational analysis actions, which entails small scale challenge administration to co-ordinate a number of elements of labor and meet deadlines. You’ll adapt current and develop new scientific strategies and experimental protocols, and check hypotheses and analyse scientific information from a wide range of sources, reviewing and refining working hypotheses as applicable. You’ll contribute concepts for brand spanking new analysis initiatives, and contribute to the presentation of scientific outcomes by journal articles, posters and oral shows at nationwide/worldwide conferences.

It’s important that you simply maintain a PhD (or near completion) in structural biology, biochemistry, virology or a associated area. It’s important that you’ve got analysis expertise in at the very least one of many following areas: manufacturing of proteins for construction/perform research or crystallization and X-ray crystallography and evaluation of viruses or viral proteins. You’ll have expertise with a number of biophysical and cell-based assays, to validate structural data and a very good publication report, in main refereed worldwide journals. Wonderful communication abilities, each written and spoken, together with the power to current work at worldwide symposia and to non-specialist audiences is important for the function.

Purposes for this emptiness are to be made on-line and you may be required to add a supporting assertion and CV as a part of your on-line utility. Your supporting assertion should clarify the way you meet every of the choice standards for the put up utilizing examples of your abilities and expertise.

This put up is obtainable full-time on a hard and fast time period contract till 30 April 2027, and is funded by the Novo Nordisk Basis.

The put up can be out there for abroad candidates requiring visa sponsorship, and the division would cowl the preliminary visa bills for the applicant. 

Solely functions obtained earlier than 12 noon on Thursday 18 April 2024 shall be thought-about. Please quote 171712 on all correspondence.