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Postdoctoral Training Fellow in Zebrafish development : London, United Kingdom

Job title: Postdoctoral Training Fellow in Zebrafish development
Location: The Francis Crick Institute, Midland road, London
Contract: Fixed-term (4 years), Full time
Salary: Competitive with benefits, subject to skills and experience
Vacancy ID: 5824

SHORT INTRODUCTION/SUMMARY

We seek a talented and motivated postdoc with expertise in working in zebrafish development to join Dr Caroline Hill’s Developmental Signalling Laboratory. The Hill lab is focused on understanding how TGF-b superfamily signalling pathways function normally in early vertebrate development and in adult untransformed tissue culture cells, and how these signalling pathways are perturbed in cancer. The group comprises ten people – five postdocs, three PhD students, one masters student and a principal laboratory research scientist. Four of the lab members focus primarily on working on these signalling pathways in zebrafish development, whilst the others focus on the more mechanistic and disease aspects of signalling.

PROJECT SCOPE/ DESCRIPTION

Dr Hill’s laboratory focuses on cell signalling in early vertebrate development and disease. Details of research projects currently being undertaken can be seen at: https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/researchers-d-j/caroline-hill/
Work in the Hill laboratory exploits the very powerful combination of early vertebrate developmental systems (primarily zebrafish embryos), together with a variety of model tissue culture systems, and some mouse models. Methodologies used range from developmental and cell biology and next generation sequencing to computational modelling.
The project will focus on dissecting the regulation and function of one of the key TGF-b superfamily pathways, Nodal, in early zebrafish embryos. It aims to determine how the Nodal signalling pathway interacts with other signalling pathways to specify different cell fates.

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The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; to developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; to public engagement; and to helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy.

If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via our website https://goo.gl/F1dNG2

The closing date for applications is 23 September 2017 at 23:30 pm.

Please note: all offers of employment are subject to successful security screening and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.
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Employer:The Francis Crick Institute

Website:https://www.crick.ac.uk/

Location:London, United Kingdom

Expires:September 23, 2017

Job type:Postdoctoral

Salary:Unspecified

Qualifications:Postgraduate - Doctorate/PhD

Employment type:Contract

Job hours:Full-time