Postdoc Opportunities in Synthetic Biology in United Kingdom

The University of Cambridge invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Research Associate position in nucleic acid computing and molecular programming, based in the Department of Genetics and associated with Dr Gamze Gürsoy's interdisciplinary laboratory. This primarily experimental, wet-lab role focuses on synthetic biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, biomolecular engineering, and genome engineering. The postholder will develop programmable nucleic-acid systems that sense defined hu...

Research Associate in Chemical Biology at the University of Manchester , based in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) and the Michael Smith Building. This fixed-term post (14 months) is part of a Wellcome Trust-funded project in the Jin group, focused on chemical biology , biochemistry , microbiology , and enzymology . The successful candidate will help study a bacterial pathway called sulfoglycolysis , with hands-on responsibilities including plasmid design and cloning, enzyme produ...

University of Oxford is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Molecular Biology for an exciting synthetic biology project funded by a major new £6.7 million ARIA grant . The role focuses on the further development and application of DNA assembly technology to create synthetic organelle genomes , with real-world testing of synthetic chloroplast genomes in crop plants including potato and wheat . The work is linked to translation-oriented research with potential impact on disease resista...