Research Fellow

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A postdoctoral fellow is required to join CRISP team members at Aberdeen University who are contributing to a large collaborative multidisciplinary project examining the "Combinatorial responses of fungal pathogens to their human hosts: an integrative systems biology approach”.  This project is funded by the BBSRC under the Systems Approaches to Biological Research (SABR) Initiative.  In Aberdeen we are integrating mathematical modelling with fungal genomics and molecular and cell biology to generate predictive models that describe the dynamic molecular responses of the medically important pathogen Candida albicans to specific environmental stresses. The inter-disciplinary project team combines internationally renowned research groups at Aberdeen University, Imperial College and Exeter University (listed below). The new postdoc will join two experimental biologists working with Professors Al Brown and Neil Gow in the Institute of Medical Sciences at Aberdeen University. The CRISP team also includes two theoretical biologists working with Professors Celso Grebogi and George Coghill, and Drs. Alessandro Moura, Marco Thiel and Maria Carmen Romano in Aberdeen. There are also experimental and theoretical biologists working at Exeter University and Imperial College.  They include mathematicians, physicists, bioinformaticians, computer scientists, fungal cell and molecular biologists, genomics experts and systems biologists.  

The new postdoctoral fellow will work with Al Brown, Neil Gow, Despoina Kaloriti and Mette Jacobsen, who are based in the Aberdeen Fungal Group at the Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen University.  Their specific goal is to test experimentally the interesting and novel predictions that are arising from our dynamic mathematical models of combinatorial stress responses in Candida albicans.  The post is available for the last six months of the CRISP project, which terminates at the end of January 2014.  

This post is funded by the BBSRC and is available for the last six months of the CRISP project, which terminates at the end of January 2014.  This appointment will be made subject to the usual terms and conditions of employment of the University. 

Salary will be paid at the rate of £30,424 per annum, the 1^st point on Grade 6 of the University Salary Scales. Consideration will be given to making an appointment at Research Assistant, Grade 5 level in the first instance (salary range £25,504 - £28,685 per annum) for individuals in the final stages of completing their PhD. 

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Professor Al Brown (al.brown@abdn.ac.uk). 

This post is not on the current "shortage occupation" list and does not meet the minimum qualification requirements as issued by the Border and Immigration Agency therefore it will not qualify for a work permit.  Unfortunately we are unable to consider applications from candidates for this post who require a work permit to work in the UK. 

To apply online for this position visit www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs by clicking on the Apply button below.

The closing date for the receipt of applications is 15 May 2013. 

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