Job Company: University of Essex

Applications are invited for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position in computational biology to work on a Wellcome Trust funded project aiming at identifying pathways altered by starvation and hypoxia in cancer. The project is developed in close collaboration with clinicians and biologists at the University of Oxford.  [More]

Senior Research Officer (Computational biophysics/bioinformatics of gene regulation) School of Biological Sciences A fixed-term senior researcher position in computational biophysics and bioinformatics of gene regulation is available in the group of Dr. Vladimir B. Teif in the University of Essex (https://www.essex.ac.uk/bs/staff/profile.aspx?ID=4511).  See examples of our recent publications: Beshnova et al. (2014) PLoS Comput Biol 10, e1003698; Teif et al. (2014) Genome Research, 24, 1285-95; Teif et al. (2012) Nature Struct Mol Biol 19, 1185-92. The person working on this project will closely interact with other group members and collaborators in the University of Edinburgh and the German Cancer Research Center who are using experimental methods of mammalian cell manipulation, molecular biology techniques and next generation sequencing methods. The School of Biology offers a rich scientific environment, with several groups relevant to this project belonging to the Genomics initiative (http://genomics.essex.ac.uk) and the Essex Biomedical Sciences Institute http://www.essex.ac.uk/bs/research/centres_and_groups/ebsi/. This is a Wellcome Trust funded 1-year position with a tentative start for the post of 1 October 2016 (or as soon as possible thereafter), Informal inquiries should be directed to Dr. Vladimir Teif (vteif@essex.ac.uk) but all applications must be made online. In the recent Research Excellence Framework 77% of research at the University of Essex research is 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent' (REF 2014). In the 2013 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey, 84% of respondents said that they were satisfied with the quality of their research degree. At Essex we win awards for our pioneering student support schemes. We are the most recent winners of the prestigious Times Higher Education award for Outstanding Support for Students. Essex is a genuine global community. With more than 130 countries represented within our student body, and 40% of our students from overseas, we are one of the most internationally-diverse universities in the UK. Salary: £34,575 per annum                                  Closing date: 10 July 2016 If interested, please apply online via the  [More]