Research Assistant/Associate

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The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a researcher to join our team. You will work in the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research under the supervision of Professor Rob Taylor and will be characterising human primary cell lines and models affected by novel mitochondrial disease gene variants and developing genome-wide CRISPR screens.

This post is to support on-going research within the Genomics and Gene Discovery team. You will have a very strong background in studying cellular models of mitochondrial dysfunction in relation to human genetic disease. Further, it is essential that you have extensive experience in using CRISPR/Cas genome editing technologies, human cell culture, protein techniques, cellular subfractionation and the preparation of mitochondrial samples, cloning/plasmid construction and confocal light microscopy imaging.

This post will require you to prioritize work with readily available access to guidance for non-standard work activity. They will also be requirement to run standard analyses and record results in an agreed format.

This post is fixed term until 30th April 2024.

For informal enquiries contact: Professor Rob Taylor - robert.taylor@ncl.ac.uk

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