Vacancies in the Institute
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• Application forms
(please refer to vacancy notices below to ensure you download and complete the correct form)
• CHRIS/5 (usually for Assistant Staff vacancies)
• CHRIS/6 (usually for Research/Academic/Academic-Related Staff vacancies)
• Research Associate
A postdoctoral research position is available in the laboratory of Professor Magdalena Zernicka Goetz to study the molecular regulation of early mouse development. Experience in live-imaging techniques and developmental biology of the mouse is most desirable.
This appointment is subject to a health assessment. Whether an outcome is satisfactory will be determined by the University. The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity. The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Applicants should email a full CV and covering letter, together with parts 1 and 3 of the Application Form to jobs@gurdon.cam.ac.uk.
• Salary: £27,854-£36,298 pa
• Limit of tenure: The funds for this post are available until the 31 January 2014 in the first instance.
• Closing date for applications: 18 June 2013
• Quote reference: PR01235
• Application form: CHRIS/6
• Date Posted: 15 May 2013
• Senior Animal Technician/Surgery Team Leader
As a member of a hard working team you will support the unit's senior management by supervising a team of technicians, within a barrier facility, in the care and welfare of rodents housed in IVCs. You will undertake scientific procedures associated with the production and maintenance of genetically altered rodents, and will support the senior team with the training of new and trainee technicians. You will have specific responsibility for the surgical suite and the training of staff in aseptic technique. You will have IAT level 3 or equivalent, Home Office Licence modules 1-3, experience of breeding and maintenance of genetically altered rodents, and proven supervisory/team leader experience to ensure your team work to a high degree of accuracy, care and attention to detail.
This appointment is subject to a health assessment. Whether an outcome is satisfactory will be determined by the University. The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity. The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Applicants should email a full CV and covering letter, together with parts 1, 2A and 3 of the Application Form to jobs@gurdon.cam.ac.uk.
• Salary: £20,764-£24,049 pa
• Limit of tenure: The funds for this post are available until the 30 September 2016 in the first instance.
• Closing date for applications: 31 May 2013
• Quote reference: PR01240
• Application form: CHRIS/5
• Date Posted: 19 May 2013
• Research Associate
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate based in the Gurdon Institute to work with Professor Daniel St Johnston and Dr Sean Munro (MRC-LMB) on the development of new reagents for superresolution imaging of polarized secretion and the Golgi in Drosophila. The project is a collaboration between groups in Cambridge, Yale and Oxford to develop new super-resolution microscopes for live imaging and is funded by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award. Applicants should have a PhD in the life sciences. Experience in molecular biology, cell biology and microscopy would be an advantage. The work will focus on mouse and human preimplantation development, and primordial cells, and pluripotent stem cells. Applicants should have experience and expertise in signaling molecules and their influence on cell fate decisions and epigenetic states. The applicant should also have experience of work involving biochemical and molecular approaches.
This appointment is subject to a health assessment. Whether an outcome is satisfactory will be determined by the University. The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity. The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Applicants should email a full CV and covering letter, together with parts 1 and 3 of the Application Form to jobs@gurdon.cam.ac.uk.
• Salary: £27,854-£36,298 pa
• Limit of tenure: The funds for this post are available for two years in the first instance.
• Closing date for applications: 18 June 2013
• Quote reference: PR01232
• Application form: CHRIS/6
• Date Posted: 15 May 2013
• Research Associate
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work in the laboratory of Professor Azim Surani. The work will focus on mouse and human preimplantation development, and primordial cells, and pluripotent stem cells. Applicants should have experience and expertise in signaling molecules and their influence on cell fate decisions and epigenetic states. The applicant should also have experience of work involving biochemical and molecular approaches
This appointment is subject to a health assessment. Whether an outcome is satisfactory will be determined by the University. The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity. The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Applicants should email a full CV and covering letter, together with parts 1 and 3 of the Application Form to jobs@gurdon.cam.ac.uk.
• Salary: £27,854-£36,298 pa
• Limit of tenure: The funds for this post are available for three years in the first instance.
• Closing date for applications: 17 June 2013
• Quote reference: PR01224
• Application form: CHRIS/6
• Date Posted: 13 May 2013
• Research Associate in big data analytics/computational biology
A postdoc position in big data analytics is available for a highly motivated researcher with expertise in the analysis of high-content microscopy data to join the interdisciplinary lab of Rafael Carazo Salas Rafael Carazo Salas in the University of Cambridge UK.
Our lab's main focus is on understanding how the gene and protein networks that regulate cellular growth, division and morphogenesis operate in space and in time, and how different cell shapes and growth patterns can arise from a single genome. To that end, we use interdisciplinary Systems Biology approaches and yeast as primary experimental model organism.
We have pioneered the development of 3D image-based high-throughput/high-content microscopy pipelines for yeast functional genomics studies, and recently completed the first genome-wide screen for genes that regulate cell shape, microtubules and cell cycle progression. This has led to terabyte-sized single cell level genome-wide data, mined into hundreds of novel candidate regulators. Capitalizing on this technology, several more screens for genes and pathways regulating other processes are ongoing in our group. Our vision is to generate an unprecedented and incremental genome annotation resource allowing us to share, analyze and visualize the biological big data sets we are generating, and to provide fundamental new insights into how genes regulate and coordinate multiple biological processes in cells and how diverse processes are co-regulated.
In the context of the ERC funded project SYSGRO, this postdoc position will therefore aim to help increase and mine the multi-dimensional genomic datasets arising from those screens, by developing tools for structuring, integrating, analyzing and cross-mining the datasets. The person would benefit from close interaction with the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre located nearby Pombase, Intermine.
The ideal candidate must have a PhD in a relevant area (machine learning, computational biology, bioinformatics, image analysis or similar) and be very enthusiastic, highly motivated, with a record of excellence and excited to work in an interdisciplinary environment. Experience with high-throughput/high-content microscopy pipelines or bioimage informatics is a definite plus.
This appointment is subject to a health assessment. Whether an outcome is satisfactory will be determined by the University. The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity. The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Applicants should email a full CV and covering letter, together with parts 1 and 3 of the Application Form to jobs@gurdon.cam.ac.uk.
• Salary: £27,854-£36,298 pa
• Limit of tenure: The funds for this post are available for one year in the first instance.
• Closing date for applications: 7 June 2013
• Quote reference: PR01197
• Application form: CHRIS/6
• Date Posted: 7 May 2013
• Research Associate (Bioinformatics)
A highly motivated postdoctoral researcher in bioinformatics is sought to joint the Gurdon Group
The project involves the use of computational methods to study epigenetic programming of the paternal genome in Xenopus laevis. The research focus of the Gurdon laboratory is to dissect the mechanisms of nuclear reprogramming; this particular project aims to understand what makes the sperm cell so easily reprogrammable by the egg, as opposed to other cell types, which are resistant to reprogramming.
The candidate must be educated to PhD level (Bioinformatics, Biology or Computational Biology) and should have demonstrable experience in ChIP-Seq data analysis (from the Illumina sequencing platform), ideally with Xenopus laevis. Due to the relative lack of annotation for Xenopus laevis and constantly evolving sequence data, experience with sequence based annotation and a demonstrable ability to extract meaning from homology / orthology based analysis is essential. Experience with RNA-Seq data would be an advantage along with knowledge of network analysis across a variety of in house and external annotation sets. Evidence of work within a biological research lab and interaction directly with researchers is a must along with excellent communication skills. Generation of testable hypothesis within a wet lab environment is a plus. Knowledge of R for statistical analysis and Python for scripting is an advantage along with experience of using HPC (Sun Grid Engine).
This appointment is subject to a health assessment. Whether an outcome is satisfactory will be determined by the University. The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity. The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Applicants should email a full CV and covering letter, together with parts 1 and 3 of the Application Form to jobs@gurdon.cam.ac.uk.
• Salary: £27,854-£36,298 pa
• Limit of tenure: The funds for this post are available for one year in the first instance.
• Closing date for applications: 29 May 2013
• Quote reference: PR01172
• Application form: CHRIS/6
• Date Posted: 29 April 2013
• Postdoctoral Researcher
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral researcher to work in the lab of Dr Rick Livesey on human stem cell models of cerebral cortex development and disease. Projects will focus on stem cell models of Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.
Applicants should have a PhD in the life or physical sciences. Experience in stem cell biology, developmental biology, neuroscience/electrophysiology or neurodegeneration would be an advantage.
This appointment is subject to a health assessment. Whether an outcome is satisfactory will be determined by the University. The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity. The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Applicants should email a full CV and covering letter, together with parts 1 and 3 of the Application Form to jobs@gurdon.cam.ac.uk Informal enquiries should be directed to Rick Livesey.
• Salary: £27,854-£36,298 pa
• Limit of tenure: The funds for this post are available until 30 September 2016 in the first instance.
• Closing date for applications: 24 May 2013
• Quote reference: PR01159
• Application form: CHRIS/6
• Date Posted: 24 April 2013