Research Fellow in Membrane Sensors (110500-0526)

Duration: Fixed term contract for 2 years

About the Role  

Informal Queries

• For informal queries, please contact Professor Satyajit Mayor at Satyajit.Mayor@warwick.ac.uk

You will join the laboratory of Professor Satyajit Mayor in the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology,  Biomedical Sciences Directorate at Warwick Medical School to define and develop sensors for local membrane properties ranging from the biophysical to the mechanical. The Mayor laboratory is one of the leading laboratories, working on understanding basic cellular mechanisms that govern chemical, biophysical and mechanical properties of the cell membrane. This project is in collaboration with Robert Ernst (Membrane Cell Biology and Biophysics, University of Saarland) and the Molecular Tools and Imaging (MTI) at the HHMI Janelia Research Institute (HHMI-JRI) Mayor and Ernst study the crosstalk of proteins and lipids in health and disease, using interdisciplinary approaches at the cross-roads of cell biology, biochemistry, synthetic biology, imaging and biophysics.

About You  

You will have an honours degree or equivalent and have a PhD in cell biology, or biophysics or allied disciplines. You will have experience in molecular cell biology, and an interest in studying membrane biophysics, along with a strong scientific interest and motivation. With evidence of published work on the design of molecular sensors for monitoring properties in a cell or single molecule biophysics in living cells.

PhD Status

If you are near submission of your PhD, or have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made at Research Assistant level, at the highest spinal point of pay grade 5 (£34,610 per annum).

Upon receipt of evidence confirming the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow, at the lowest spinal point of grade 6 (£35,608 per annum).

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the 'Apply' button.

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