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Postdoctoral research fellow in biology of pluripotency

Posted by , on 4 July 2025

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Location: Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Devon

Closing Date: 30 July 2025

Smith Group – Living Systems Institute – University of Exeter

An exciting opening is available in the laboratory of Austin Smith to join an ERC- funded programme of investigations into the plasticity of the pluripotency network. We are looking for a skilled researcher motivated by fundamental curiosity with a keen interest in stem cells and cell fate decisions.

Stem cells matching the emergent state of naïve pluripotency in the early embryo have so far been established only from rodents and higher primates. Our goal is to capture naïve pluripotent stem cells from a broad range of mammals and to reveal the core gene regulatory network. This project will apply signalling environments designed from recent insights to maintain naïve stem cells generated by network resetting, somatic cell reprogramming, and/or direct derivation from livestock embryos. Multimodal profiling, in vitro differentiation and in vivo chimaera formation will be employed to evaluate and validate naïve pluripotency. Bioinformatics and network inference will be supported by computational members of the team. Chimaera studies are in partnership with our collaborator Ramiro Alberio at the University of Nottingham.

Salary: From £34,132 to £52,565

Start date: 1 September 2025

Closing Date: 30 July 2025

Scientific fields: Cell biology, Cell fate control and differentiation, Chromatin and epigenetics, Development and disease, Early embryogenesis, Signalling, Stem cells

Model systems: Other vertebrate, Human, Cell culture

Duration: Fixed term

Minimum qualifications: PhD

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