Research Technician in Animal Embryology

Division: College of Organic & Behavioural Sciences
Wage: £31,421 – £35,636 each year (Grade 3)
Reference: 1641
Location: Mile Finish
Date posted: 14 March 2024
Deadline: 2 April 2024

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Overview

In regards to the Function

Purposes are invited for a analysis technician place within the laboratory of Dr Chema Martin within the College of Organic and Behavioural Sciences. Our group applies developmental, genomic, and mobile organic strategies to grasp the molecular mechanisms controlling animal embryogenesis and evolution. See https://www.martinduranlab.com  for extra details about the analysis context.

Your major duties shall be (1) main animal care efforts and contributing to pattern collections of in-house cultured and field-collected annelid worms; (2) cloning and conducting gene expression analyses with cutting-edge strategies (e.g., in situ HCR); (3) acquiring high-quality photos with DIC, confocal and super-resolution microscopy.

Additional, you’ll prepare lab colleagues and college students and help their experimental work with gene expression analyses, primary molecular biology approaches and imaging. If desired and potential, there shall be freedom to discover impartial tasks.

About You

You must have a related BSc/BA diploma (MSc fascinating), some expertise with molecular biology and embryology laboratory strategies (e.g. gene cloning and purification, in situ hybridisation or immunohistochemistry) and an curiosity in animal growth and evolution. You must be capable to plan experiments independently, comply with analysis protocols, and keep good information. Try to be well-organised and have a proactive, self-motivated angle. Importantly, try to be eager to help different workforce members.

You can be a part of a collaborative, worldwide workforce of analysis workers and college students and can be capable to develop new expertise and mentor different lab members.

In regards to the College

The College of Organic & Behavioural Sciences is likely one of the largest Colleges inside Queen Mary College of London and is dedicated to excellence in analysis and instructing. The Division gives a energetic and stimulating setting for workers and college students, nicely built-in into the College.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary College of London, we consider {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 means of tutorial excellence. And we proceed to reside and breathe this spirit at this time, not as a result of it’s merely ‘the correct factor to do’ however for what it helps us obtain and the mental brilliance it delivers.

We proceed to embrace variety of thought and opinion in every thing we do, within the perception that when views collide, disciplines work together, and views intersect, really authentic thought takes type.

Advantages

We provide aggressive salaries, entry to a beneficiant pension scheme, 30 days’ go away each year (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket mortgage scheme and entry to a complete vary of non-public {and professional} growth alternatives. As well as, we provide a variety of labor life steadiness and household pleasant, inclusive employment insurance policies, versatile working preparations, and campus services together with an on-site nursery on the Mile Finish campus.

Queen Mary’s dedication to our various and inclusive group is embedded in our appointments processes. Affordable changes shall be made at every stage of the recruitment course of for any candidate with a incapacity.

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