Research Associate

2 weeks ago

Hammersmith, United Kingdom Imperial College London Full time

Neuroactive natural products have led to important drugs including anthelmintics and pharmaceuticals, but we have barely scratched the surface of what nature has to offer. How will we discover the next generation of neuroactive compounds? We have developed new technology for high-throughput behavioural screening and quantitative phenotyping that will enable us to find neuroactive natural products at an unprecedented scale. This position would give you access to unique screening technology and a group of interdisciplinary colleagues who work together on behaviour assays, instrument development, software, and data analysis.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative scientist with a PhD and an interest in behavior, animal-microbe interactions, synthetic biology, and/or neuropharmacology. Other members of the team have backgrounds in microbiology, physics, neuroscience, and engineering. Your particular path is less important than your desire to learn and work on interesting problems.

**Duties and responsibilities**:
You will be responsible for developing and refining methods to quantify the effect of microbial extracts and pure natural products on the behaviour and development of _C. elegans_ and to collaborate closely with scientists at Syngenta to determine the mode of action of active compounds.

**Essential requirements**:

- **Research Associate**: Hold or be about to obtain a PhD in a biological or physical science or engineering or a closely related discipline, or equivalent research, industrial or commercial experience
- ** Research Assistant**: Near completion of a PhD in a biological or physical science or engineering or a closely related discipline, or equivalent research, industrial or commercial experience- Practical experience within a research environment and / or publication in relevant and refereed journals
- Creative approach to problem solving and a desire to work in an interdisciplinary team

**Further information**:
This is a full time and fixed term post for 3 years. You will be based at the Hammersmith Campus (East Acton).
- The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes which are ultimately aimed towards finding new treatments and making scientific and medical advances, and where there are no satisfactory or reasonably practical alternatives to their use. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level._ _Find out more about animal research at Imperial_._

**Documents**:

- Final JD - MED03700 - GS.pdf

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