Location: | Birmingham |
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Salary: | £34,980 to £44,264 full time starting salary range, with potential progression once in post to £46,974. Grade 7 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 27th March 2024 |
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Closes: | 17th April 2024 |
Job Ref: | 103677 |
Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to May 2025
Applicants are invited to apply for a research fellow, at the School of Biociences, University of Birmingham to work on a project funded by an ERC advanced grant. The postdoctoral research fellow will be working in a team composed of three PDRA fellows, a research technician and two PhD students under the supervision of Prof. Yin Chen.
Microbes represent the unseen majority of life on Earth, providing crucial ecosystem services to society such as greenhouse gas mitigation. Methanotrophs are ubiquitous in the environment, being key players in the global carbon cycle and the mitigation of methane release from the environment. Over the last decade, advances in omics have allowed a better understanding methantrophs and their role in greenhouse gas metabolism but our ability to predict how environmental change affects their assembly, structure, stability and function in response to climate change is rather limited. In this project, we bring together a novel combination of theoretical elements and a variety of empirical biology approaches to understand methane oxidation in real-world natural freshwater lakes and how methanotroph activity is regulated.
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The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.
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Informal enquiries to Prof Yin Chen, y.chen.22@bham.ac.uk
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