The Rosalind Franklin Institute is a national research centre, funded by the UK government through UK Research and Innovation, dedicated to bringing about transformative changes in life science through interdisciplinary research and technology. We are currently expanding and looking for a science driven, but community oriented Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our Next Generation Chemistry theme’s proteomics team.
One of the major goals of our work is to improve technologies for the characterisation of biomolecules and in this post, there is a focus on sugars. As a PDRA specialising in glycomics and glycoproteomics you will be developing approaches for characterising sugars and glycoproteins through, biochemical, chemical, chromatographic and mass spectrometric means.
The successful candidate will have access to a range of our current instrumentation which includes several bespoke mass spectrometers that incorporate most if not all high-performance analysers and activation techniques including an Exploris 480-omnitrap instrument containing UVPD, HCD, IRMPD and several flavours of ExD. The successful candidate will apply their approaches to several pertinent systems currently under study including those that involve host-pathogen interactions as well as systems focused on metabolic pathways.
We are looking for someone with excellent skills in the following areas:
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About us: The Rosalind Franklin Institute is a new national Research Centre, funded by the UK government through UK Research and Innovation, dedicated to bringing about transformative changes in life science through interdisciplinary research and technology.
Location: The Franklin is based in Harwell Campus, UK’s innovation hub and well-established as one of the leading science and innovation campuses in Europe.
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