Cell biology/Development Postdoc position – deadline 31st July

The Davies Lab (Durham University, UK) is advertising a funded 3-year postdoc position to start in October 2025 (approximately).

Cytokinesis, the division of one cell into two, is crucial for an animal’s development and healthy life and shows many conserved features across the animal kingdom.

Using the C. elegans embryo, we have previously shown that specific cells in the 4-cell embryo are able to successfully divide when several proteins thought to be essential (the f-actin polymerase Formin and  and f-actin itself) are depleted (https://elifesciences.org/articles/36204).

We are recruiting a 3-year postdoc to continue this work. The  project focuses on how this unexpected division is supported by signalling from an adjacent cell, likely via the Wnt ligand, and aims to understand how Wnt signalling controls the molecular pathways required for successful division.  This is a BBSRC funded position, which will use C. elegans genetics, cell biology, light microscopy and molecular biology to investigate how Wnt signalling regulates cell division.  

More information about the the labs research is available here: https://www.davieslab.org

Previous training and skills are important, but so is a real passion cell division/ cell morphogenesis/developmental biology.  The formal advert and job description is quite bland, so please do contact Tim (timothy.r.davies@durham.ac.uk) if you have any questions. 

See here: https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=25000808.  Applications have to be made through the this link and the deadline is 31st July.