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Post-docs

Postdoctoral Research Scientist – Protist Transcriptomics Earlham Institute

Salary:
£39,000 - £46,500

The Earlham Institute has been awarded funding by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop Protist Omics at Scale, a three-year international methods-development programme.

 

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Ref no:
1006194
Posted:
09th Sep 2026
Closes:
01st Oct 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher John Innes Centre

Salary:
£39,000 - £46,500

Working as part of a team led by Dr Hassan Salem,you will use comparative and population genomic approaches to reconstruct the origin, maintenance, and evolutionary consequences of symbiosis in beetles.

 

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Ref no:
1006175
Posted:
13th Aug 2026
Closes:
16th Sep 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher John Innes Centre

Salary:
£39,000 - £46,500

Working as part of a team led by Dr Hassan Salem, and in collaboration across the Department of Molecular Microbiology, you will lead the biochemical and structural characterisation of host traits and proteins central to symbiosis in beetles.

 

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Ref no:
1006174
Posted:
13th Aug 2026
Closes:
16th Sep 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher John Innes Centre

Salary:
£39,000 - £46,500

Working as part of a team led by Dr Hassan Salem, you will investigate the developmental basis of symbiosis in beetles, focusing on how symbiotic organs form, mature, and are maintained across host life stages.

 

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Ref no:
1006173
Posted:
12th Aug 2026
Closes:
16th Sep 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher – Wenbo Ma group The Sainsbury Laboratory

Salary:
Up to £46,485 per annum

The Wenbo Ma Lab is seeking two highly motivated postdoctoral researchers (one experimental & one bioinformatics) to join our team. Funded by the ERC-Advanced grant “sRNA-Defense”, these positions focus on understanding fundamental biology of small RNA-based plant immunity and applying this knowledge to crop disease resistance.

 

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Ref no:
WM2026-01
Posted:
07th Aug 2026
Closes:
14th Sep 2026