Research Assistant/Associate - Biosecurity/DNA data storage

Company description:

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

Job description:

Salary:

Research Assistant: £31,396 to £32,982 per annum

Research Associate: £33,966 to £41,732 per annum

The Role

We are looking for an Information or Coding Theorist or a Cryptographer who is interested in applying their expertise into Biosecurity and DNA data storage.

You will join our consortium dedicated to the mission of restoring natural environments by engineering microbial machines. Working at the forefront of information & coding theory and cryptography together with molecular biologists and engineering biologists we will engineer cyanobacteria as a bio-based organic devices to deliver environmental solutions that are cryptographically biosecured by design.

Our goal is to ensure the utmost safety and traceability using genomic barcoding, watermarking and other cryptographic and DNA data encoding regimes of engineered organisms before deploying them into complex ecosystems.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with experimentalists and have access to state-of-the-art computational and bio-nano-technology equipment to test, debug and improve their theories in living organisms. The role will require regular liaison with the other investigators in the project, the research group and international collaborators. You will be required to keep excellent records of all the activities conducted whether these are theoretical, computational experiments, procedures, protocols, workflows or outcomes. These findings will then be used to communicate within the team and aid in the delivery of the project milestones.

This post is fixed term for a period of 24 months.

As part of the role you will spend time attending meetings and visiting collaborators' labs in the UK and overseas.

To have a conversation about the opportunity, please contact Professor Natalio Krasnogor at Natalio.Krasnogor@newcastle.ac.uk.

To apply, please upload a CV and letter of application which outlines how your skills, experiences and knowledge align with the person specification below.

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