We seek to appoint an outstanding and ambitious early career scientist to a lectureship position based within the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) at the University of Manchester (UoM). The successful candidate will join a dynamic research environment with state-of-the-art facilities to develop their independent research portfolio and foster new collaborations. In addition to high-quality research, you will be expected to contribute enthusiastically to teaching. We are open to high quality applications from across the broad engineering biology and biotechnology landscape. Specific areas of interest include but are not limited to: natural product biosynthesis and enzyme discovery, structural biology, mechanistic enzymology and microbial engineering.
Alongside your CV, please include a two-page research statement detailing your future research plans as an independent group leader.
The MIB is a flagship UoM Research Institute that has played a pivotal role in the development of engineering biology and related biotechnology research, both in the UK and across the globe. Our research spans fundamental bioscience discoveries and technology development, through to commercial impact and realization of real-world applications. MIB houses state-of-the-art research laboratories, and an impressive range of specialist facilities including automated robotics platforms, NMR, fast-reaction/laser facilities, mass spectrometry, protein crystallography, high-throughput analytical platforms, gene sequencing, computation and small-scale fermentation. These facilities are run by dedicated senior technical experts who offer specialist services and training and enable our staff to conduct the highest quality interdisciplinary research at the forefront of biotechnology.
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