Jobs: biosynthesis

Primary supervisor - Dr Dmitry Ghilarov  Background The acute problem of antimicrobial resistance incentivises us to develop innovative approaches to antibiotic discovery & production. Natural products that form the basis of our current medical arsenal are often difficult to synthesize, purify, or engineer. In recent years bioinformatically predicted...

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Wilkinson Group at the John Innes Centre, working in collaboration with the Hutchings lab, on a project titled: Manipulating two-component systems to activate cryptic antibiotic pathways in filamentous actinomycete bacteria. About the Wilkinson Group We are an...

**About the role** This is a 6-month postdoctoral post that will continue the development of metabolic engineering strategies to accumulation bioplastics in plants at commercially relevant yields. The project is targeting the accumulation of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) in plants, using _Marchantia polymorpha_ and tobacco as testbeds to prototype and optimize...

Job Description Main Purpose of the Job Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Products Chemical Biology to join the laboratories of Professors Barrie Wilkinson and Matt Hutchings at the John Innes Centre based in Norwich, UK. Actinomycete bacteria make numerous specialised metabolites (SMs), many of which have...

The Postdoctoral Research Associate will be based in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) and Department of Chemistry working with Prof Jason Micklefield. **What you will get in return**: - Fantastic market leading Pension scheme - Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme - Exceptional starting...

Supervisory Team: Jonathan GeorgePhD Supervisor: Jonathan GeorgeProject description:The School of Chemistry is offering a fully funded PhD studentship to a highly motivated candidate to start in September 2024. The student will carry out their doctoral research in the George Group, which has recently moved to the University of Southampton.BackgroundThe use...