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Research Assistant/Associate - Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Fixed Term for 2 years (Dependent on salary placement)

We are seeking to recruit a talented and motivated Research Associate to undertake cutting edge research in Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology

This is a fixed term post and will be held within the Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences (FBLS), Glasgow University under the direction Dr Susan Rosser and is funded by a joint EPSRC/NSF grant aimed at generating new frontiers in Synthetic Biology. The successful candidate will join a team of UK (Prof Paul Freemont, Imperial; Prof Ann Osbourn, JIC and Prof Declan Bates, Leicester) and USA (Prof Jay Keasling, Berkeley and Dr Josh Leonard, Northwestern) researchers focused on generating new and innovative synthetic biology approaches for metabolic engineering applications.

Successful applicants will have or will have submitted a PhD in the general area of molecular biology, biochemistry, protein engineering or other related fields. The project will require research experience and skills in generating more efficient enzymes and metabolic pathway engineering. A background of working with recombinases/ integrases would be desirable. An interest in synthetic biology is also desirable but not essential.

Apart from the technical research, you will be required to contribute to papers and reports, interact with academic and industrial researchers and make presentations. You must therefore have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and presentation skills.
Due to the highly collaborative, multidisciplinary nature of this project there will be many opportunities for travel to work in collaborators laboratories and the ability to work as part of a team is essential.

For further information on Glasgow University and research in the Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences please click the link within the 'View Contact Details' section below. Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Susan Rosser (email: s.rosser@bio.gla.ac.uk)

This post has funding for 24 months and is available from 1st January 2010.

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Closing date: 27th November 2009