Postdoctoral Research Associate – Antimicrobial Discovery

Liverpool-School-of-Tropical-Medicine; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth support

Employee assistance platform

30 days leave + bank holidays + 6 days

Pension schemes

Cycle to work

Sports centre membership

Family friendly policies

Job summary

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is seeking up to three Post Doctoral Research Associates to support projects on early-stage drug discovery and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

The successful candidates will join iiCON and contribute to translational research by screening microbial libraries and characterizing antimicrobials. A PhD in microbiology and lab experience are essential.

Qualifications

• PhD in a microbiologically relevant subject with research laboratory experience.
• Experience in microbiology research laboratories is essential.
• Familiarity with microbiology, molecular biology and bioinformatic techniques.

Responsibilities

• Add to, and screen, a natural product library and conduct high quality research to advance knowledge within the antimicrobial chemotherapy and resistance space.
• Expand and screen an environmental bacterial isolate library for production of antimicrobials and other molecules of interest.
• Prepare and fractionate cell free extracts of environmental microbes for screening purposes.
• Experimentally and bioinformatically determine the nature of antimicrobials from the library.
• Screen derivatised molecules against target organisms.
• Clone novel resistance genes and genes encoding target molecules to confirm functionality.
• Write and edit manuscripts for publication; contribute to patent applications; communicate results in lab meetings.
• Organise meetings, workshops, and residential visits; report to collaborators; coordinate experiments and data analysis.

Skills

Microbiology

Early-stage drug discovery

Bioinformatics

Molecular biology

Education

PhD in microbiology

Job description

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is seeking up to three Post Doctoral Research Associates to support projects on early-stage drug discovery and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

The successful candidates will join iiCON and contribute to translational research by screening microbial libraries and characterizing antimicrobials. A PhD in microbiology and lab experience are essential.