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We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.
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Overview
We are looking for an ambitious, self-motivated, energetic, resilient, team-oriented, proactive, focused and organised scientist to join our team to deliver on our exciting, recently awarded Dunhill Medical Trust project grant entitled: "Determining the relative contribution of macrophage ageing to gut degeneration, systemic frailty and cognitive decline, using the zebrafish model . This project will integrate a larger body of work in the lab, aiming to understand how specific changes in tissue-associated immunity with ageing contribute to age-associated dysfunction and disease, and identifying ways to ameliorate or prevent them, which tightly aligns with current University, UK and world-wide research focus. If you are interested in the fundamental biology of ageing, immunity, stem cells and tissue-repair and how these can interact to contribute to age-associated dysfunction across multiple tissues, then this project is for you. This is a 2 year position where you will have the unique opportunity to use a truly diverse combination of state-of-the-art techniques, which will set you apart for your scientific career development
Main duties and responsibilities
- Actively participate in Weekly team meetings and project planning.
- Follow team-decided research directions.
- Pro-actively plan experiments and timekeeping based on team discussions an decisions.
- Perform experiments.
- Acquire, analyse, and present data locally, nationally, and internationally
- Routine lab management.
- Monthly informal team reports.
- Excellent record keeping in the form of a lab book and data management in shared drive.
- Adapt to changes as required by project results.
- Undergo Home Office training for working with zebrafish and successfully pass the exam for acquiring a PIL.
- Work flexible hours.
- Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post.
Person Specification
Our diverse community of staff and students recognises the unique abilities, backgrounds, and beliefs of all. We foster a culture where everyone feels they belong and is respected. Even if your past experience doesn't match perfectly with this role's criteria, your contribution is valuable, and we encourage you to apply. Please ensure that you reference the application criteria in the application statement when you apply.
Essential criteria
- Have a relevant PhD (such as: Molecular & Cellular Biology, Genetics, Biochemistry, Biosciences, etc) (please provide at least 2 references) (assessed at: application).
- Have a good knowledge of relevant subject (Molecular biology of ageing, immunology, genetics- to be evidenced by PhD subject, potential publications and interview) (assessed at: application and interview).
- Have excellent communication skills (both written and oral, experience of delivering presentations, communicating to staff at all levels, to be evidenced by PhD thesis, references and interview) (assessed at: application and interview).
- Be an excellent team and individual worker; pro-active, focused, self-motivated, organised (time-management and record-keeping), ambitious and resilient. (assessed at: application and interview).
- Be proficient at IT and data analysis and display software (e.g. image J, QuPath, graphpad prism, excel and illustrator) (assessed at: application and interview).
- Ability to analyse and solve problems with an appreciation of longer-term implications (assessed at: application and interview).
Desirable criteria
- Have experience in confocal fluorescence microscopy (assessed at: application and interview).
- Have experience ins immunoflourescence and in situ hybridisation (assessed at: application and interview).
Further Information
Grade: 7
Line manager: Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow
Direct reports: N/A
For informal enquiries about this job contact Dr Catarina Henriques, PI and Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow on c.m.henriques@sheffield.ac.uk
Next steps in the recruitment process
It is anticipated that the selection process will take place in the weeks following the closing date. We plan to let candidates know if they have progressed to the selection stage within two weeks of the closing date. If you are shortlisted for interview and require reasonable adjustments please contact clinmed-staffing@sheffield.ac.uk
Our vision and strategic plan
We are the University of Sheffield. This is our vision: sheffield.ac.uk/vision (opens in new window).
What we offer
- A minimum of 41 days annual leave including bank holiday and closure days (pro rata) with the ability to purchase more.
- Flexible working opportunities, including hybrid working for some roles.
- Generous pension scheme.
- A wide range of discounts and rewards on shopping, eating out and travel.
- A variety of staff networks, providing opportunities for social interaction, peer support and personal development (for example, Race Equality, LGBT+, Women's and Parent's networks).
- Recognition Awards to reward staff who go above and beyond in their role.
- A commitment to your development access to learning and mentoring schemes; integrated with our Academic Career Pathways
- A range of generous family-friendly policies
- paid time off for parenting and caring emergencies
- support for those going through the menopause
- paid time off and support for fertility treatment
- and more
More details can be found on our benefits page: sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits (opens in a new window).
We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a disability and meet the essential criteria for this job you will be invited to take part in the next stage of the selection process.
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We know that when people come together with different views, approaches and insights it can lead to richer, more creative and innovative teaching and research and the highest levels of student experience. Our University Vision (www.sheffield.ac.uk/vision) outlines our commitment to building a diverse community of staff and students that recognizes and values the abilities, backgrounds, beliefs and ways of living for everyone.