Vacancies
SCRI and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute are coming together to create The James Hutton Institute 1 April 2011. The new organisation will combine existing strengths in crops, soils and land use and environmental research, and will make major, new contributions to the understanding of key global issues, such as food, energy and environmental security, and developing and promoting effective technological and management solutions to these. It will employ more than 600 scientists and support staff, making it one of the biggest research centres in the UK and the first of its type in Europe.
Research Assistant
- Salary: £26,610 – £29,566
- Reference number: PP/1/11
- Closing date: 4pm Friday 15 April 2011
A full time postdoctoral researcher is required to join Dr Nicola Holden’s group, researching the molecular basis to colonisation of plants by human pathogenic enterobacteria. The BBSRC-funded project will characterise adherence factors in Escherichia coli O157:H7 that mediate interactions with fresh produce plants; lettuce and spinach. The project will identify potential adherence factors from libraries of clones and mutants, in tandem with bioinformatics screens. Candidate adherence factors will be characterised in detail in planta.
Full details and how to apply can be found on the Research Assistant page.
The closing date for applications is 4pm Friday 15 April 2011.
