Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Cardiovascular Genomics
Posted by Filipa Simões, on 31 May 2025
Job type:
Location: University of Oxford
Closing Date: 6 June 2025
🫀Job alert 🧬 come and be our colleague at the University of Oxford! Join a BBSRC-funded consortium aiming to understand how the human heart develops – you will be contributing multimodal single cell & spatial transcriptomics data using zebrafish and human cardiac organoids as models. Learn more: www.heartdevelopment.org
Key responsibilities: • lead cross-species comparative studies of heart development, with a focus on zebrafish • engineer human cardiac organoid systems • conduct multimodal single cell and spatial transcriptomics experiments • perform CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing of developmental regulators
What we are looking for: •PhD (or near completion) in devbio, cardiovascular, genomics or related field •molecular/cellular biology/genomics expertise •can work independently & contribute intellectual input to project •bonus points for cardiovascular, zebrafish or organoid expertise!
Apply by 6th June here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru… Please reach out with any questions 🙏
Salary: £38,674 - £43,171
Closing Date: 6 June 2025
Scientific fields: Cardiovascular development, Tissue engineering and organoids, Gene regulation, Stem cells, Organogenesis
Model systems: Zebrafish, Organoid
Duration: Fixed term
Minimum qualifications: PhD (or be near completion)