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英国剑桥医学研究会分子生物学研究博士后岗位

日期:2008-02-28
Institution

MRC (http://www.mrc.ac.uk)

Position

Postdoctoral Molecular Biologists

Location

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Date Posted

February 27th 2008

Date Expires

March 28th 2008

Tags

molecular biology, biological sciences, cell biology, genetics andgenomics, and biotechnology

Description

MRC
Medical Research Council

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge

Postdoctoral Scientists

£25,368 – £26,953 pa

The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology is a world famous institutionwith a strong track record in training postdoctoral fellows who havegone on to become leading scientists.
We are looking for four Postdoctoral Scientists to join Dr Jason Chin’spioneering research programme, which focuses on innovative approaches toengineering cellular translation (see Nature Biotech. (2007), 25,770& Nature Chem. Biol. (2008), 4, in press). Dr Chin’s cutting-edgework has gained international recognition and has been selected forfunding by the prestigious European Research Council, which supportsinvestigator-driven frontier research.

You will join our strong inter-disciplinary team at the LMB’s Proteinand Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division. We have broad expertise extendingfrom x-ray crystallography and chemical biology through to transgenicanimals. We also have an excellent record of innovative basic researchleading to applications in medicine.

Postdoctoral Molecular Biologists (3 posts)

Ref: LMB08/097

You will make a significant contribution to a project, which will evolvethe macromolecular machinery of cells to perform new functions, tocharacterize the evolved machinery, and to develop applications of theevolved machinery. You will have a PhD degree in molecular biology andsignificant experience with biological methods, which may includedirected evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, synthetic biology,protein purification methods or biophysical methods.

Successful applicants will be awarded a 2.5 year MRC Career DevelopmentFellowship, which is a training and development position for apostdoctoral scientist who has recently completed their doctoral studiesor is moving into a new research discipline.

Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr. Jason Chin email: chin@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

The starting salary will be in the range of £25,368 – £26,953 per annumand is supported by a flexible pay award policy, 6 weeks annual leaveand public holidays, optional MRC final salary pension scheme andexcellent onsite sports and social facilities.

This position is subject to pre-employment screening.

Applications for this post must be made online at http://jobs.mrc.ac.ukinputting the reference number above. Please include a CV and coveringletter with your application. If you do not have access to the internetor experience technical difficulties please contact 01793 301280.

Closing date: 28 March 2008.

Contact

For further information about the MRC visit http://www.mrc.ac.uk

The MRC is an Equal Opportunities Employer

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