Research Fellow in Metabolic Modelling

Job title:

Analysis Fellow in Metabolic Modelling

Firm

College of Surrey

Job description

017024The College of Surrey is a world neighborhood of concepts and other people, devoted to life-changing training and analysis.We’re bold and have a daring imaginative and prescient of what we wish to obtain – shaping ourselves into among the best universities on the earth, which we’re attaining by means of the abilities and endeavour of each worker.Our tradition empowers folks to attain this goal and to collectively, and individually, make an actual distinction.The positionEngineering Streptomyces micro organism for the sustainable manufacture of antibiotics.Our Mission Award proposal goals to utilise Engineering Biology approaches for the event of transferable methods to engineer antibiotic-producing Streptomyces micro organism ready to make use of a variety of sustainable feedstocks for manufacturing of drug molecules. To ship this mission we are going to combine ‘moist ’and ‘dry ’laboratory knowledge from an genuine industrial Streptomyces pressure lineage. We’ll decide how the pressure enchancment course of has pushed strains to adapt to particular media and fermentation circumstances after which use this info to construct, design and take a look at acceptable engineering methods for the event and development of Streptomyces strains that use greener carbon sources. This can finally allow us to discover ways to rationally design of strains for greener manufacturing and make this technique broadly relevant to different industrial Streptomyces.It is a collaboration between the College of Strathclyde, the College of Surrey and GSK. The research has acquired a grant of slightly below £1.1 million from the UKRI Know-how Missions Fund, with help from the Biotechnology and Organic Sciences Analysis Council (BBSRC).About youWe’re searching for a Analysis Fellow with experience in metabolic modelling and computational biology and their software for the evaluation of metabolism and the design of methods for bettering the properties of microbial strains. The appointed researcher will design and assemble metabolic fashions primarily based on the knowledge collected from multi-omics experiments carried out by the collaborators, and counsel and suggest experiments to pick out the perfect producing species and take a look at their efficiency below various tradition circumstances.The researcher will liaise, practice, and change abilities and methodology with colleagues from associated initiatives, and can be concerned in teaching and supervision of undergraduate and post-graduate researchers. There can be alternatives to collaborate with world-class researchers at different main tutorial establishments, in addition to with our industrial companions.What we will supplyAlong with your wage, you’ll obtain pension contributions, a beneficiant annual depart entitlement, relocation help the place acceptable, a sexy analysis atmosphere, and entry to quite a lot of employees improvement alternatives. Moreover, our profit packages embrace childcare help and discounted membership to College sports activities services.The best way to applyTo use for this position, please submit your CV and a canopy letter. Additionally, you will be requested some temporary questions to assist us perceive your suitability for the position.Potential candidates eager about discussing particulars of the undertaking ought to contact Professor Claudio Avignone Rossa (c.avignone-rossa@surrey.ac.uk).The College of Surrey is dedicated to offering an inclusive atmosphere that provides equal alternatives for all. We place nice worth on range and are in search of to extend the range inside our neighborhood. Subsequently we notably encourage functions from under-represented teams, corresponding to folks from Black, Asian and minority ethnic teams and other people with disabilities. Additional particulars:

Anticipated wage

£36024 – 37099 per yr

Location

Guildford, Surrey

Job date

Solar, 14 Apr 2024 00:19:57 GMT

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