Research Assistant

Job title:

Analysis Assistant

Firm

College of Edinburgh

Job description

Job Description:

Grade UE06: £31,396 to £36,024 each year (A revised wage vary for this grade of £32,982 to £38,205 is deliberate to take impact from Spring 2024)

School of Science and Engineering/Faculty of Organic Sciences/Institute of Cell Biology

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fastened-term: for 12 months

We’re in search of a analysis assistant for a interval of 12 months to work on the structural biology of the synaptonemal complicated in Dr Owen Davies’ laboratory within the College of Edinburgh.

The Alternative:

The synaptonemal complicated is a supramolecular protein construction that assembles throughout meiosis to facilitate homologous chromosome synapsis and crossover formation. This place will research the integrative structural and mobile biology of the human synaptonemal complicated, utilizing methods that embrace cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, biophysics, computation, mammalian cell tradition and mobile imaging. The profitable candidate will set up new tasks, individually and in collaboration with different members of the laboratory. This place supplies a novel alternative for a extremely enthusiastic graduate to develop their expertise and acquire expertise in structural and mobile biology previous to endeavor a doctoral analysis programme.

Candidates ought to embrace a doc explaining their analysis pursuits and ambitions.

For examples of our work, please assessment the next manuscripts and web site:

Please contact Dr Owen Davies ( ) for additional particulars and casual discussions in regards to the position.

Your expertise and attributes for fulfillment:

• Curiosity within the construction of the synaptonemal complicated
• Curiosity in utilizing structural approaches to unravel elementary issues of cell biology
• Motivation to undertake integrative analysis approaches
• Clear need to undertake a PhD in a associated space
• Drive to be taught new analysis methods

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In regards to the Workforce:

The Institute of Cell Biology (ICB) is a world-leading analysis centre for cell and molecular biology. Our analysis goals to uncover elementary mechanisms liable for the steadiness, transmission and expression of genetic info in each prokaryotes and eukaryotes, in addition to research of processes underlying microbial physiology and pathogenesis. We work with a variety of experimental techniques together with cell tradition, micro organism, yeast, Drosophila and mouse.

We work intently with different areas of the Faculty and with colleagues within the School of Drugs and Veterinary Drugs, and have notably robust hyperlinks with members of the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology and with SynthSys (the centre for Artificial & Techniques Biology) with whom we have now widespread analysis pursuits and plenty of collaborative tasks. Services embrace excessive through-put DNA sequencing, protein manufacturing and purification, biophysical and kinetic evaluation of proteins, in silico screening for drug leads, proteomics, optical and electron microscopy.

ICB incorporates the Wellcome Belief Centre for Cell Biology, a flagship analysis centre answering elementary questions referring to mobile operate. Our analysis is funded by, amongst others, BBSRC, CR-UK, European Fee, Gates Basis, Mayo Basis, MRC, Royal Society and the Wellcome Belief.

To seek out out extra go to https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/cell-biology

Anticipated wage

Location

United Kingdom

Job date

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 08:51:06 GMT

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