3 year Postdoc in muscle ageing
Posted by Robert Knight, on 17 January 2022
Job type: Postdoc
Location: London
Closing Date: 30 January 2022
A 3 year research associate post is available to work in the Knight group at King’s College London to investigate how ageing affects muscle stem cell function. This an exciting opportunity to explore the impact of ageing on muscle regeneration and to identify potential age-associated factors using zebrafish as an in vivo ageing model. This is a collaboration with Ivo Sbalzarini @ TU Dresden and Ann Babtie @ Exeter and aims to combine live cell imaging with gene manipulation and computer modelling.
The post holder will have a PhD and experience of working with zebrafish, performing live cell imaging and analysing gene function. Experience of coding for analysing gene expression datasets and imaging data would be helpful.
The Knight group are based at the Guy’s campus in the heart of London. On site there is access to state-of-the-art microscopy resources, the Biomedical Research Centre genomics and flow cytometry facilities, a well equipped zebrafish facility and the Genome Editing and Embryology Core. Guy’s campus offers a diverse and engaging academic environment with multi-disciplinary groups working across tissue repair, disease, ageing and mechanobiology using a variety of approaches and tools.
Please send informal enquiries to robert.knight@kcl.ac.uk
Salary: £39,345 to £41,517
Start date: 21 March 2022
Closing Date: 30 January 2022
Scientific fields: Regeneration, Cell fate control and differentiation, Development and disease, Homeostasis and aging
Model systems: Zebrafish
Duration: Fixed term
Minimum qualifications: PhD, background in zebrafish biology