Biomedical Scientist jobs in Sussex

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research fellow position in the Systems Neurodevelopment laboratory headed by Dr Varun Sreenivasan at the University of Sussex. The successful candidate will work on an exciting research project at the interface of developmental neurobiology and circuits neuroscience. They will integrate in-vivo whole cell recordings during postnatal development with optogenetics, viral tracing and behavioural filming to study how developmental expansion of motor cortex into non-motor regions will rewire sensorimotor circuits.

You will have either completed or submitted a PhD in neuroscience. You will have previous experience in carrying out either in-vivo electrophysiology or two-photon imaging, optogenetics and behaviour in mice. You will be confident in handling the relevant data and be competent in programming on either MATLAB or Python. You will also be enthusiastic about building and troubleshooting your experimental rig. You will have the skills to manage your own workload and at times, support other colleagues in their research. You will clearly communicate your research and progress to internal and external audiences.

In the School of Life Sciences we strive to understand the mechanisms that drive biological and chemical processes and to develop innovative and diverse approaches to enhance human health, technology and the environment. We undertake multidisciplinary research, teaching and engagement across a wide range of subjects, from Chemistry through Cellular and Molecular Biosciences to Conservation Biology.

The School comprises five Departments: Biochemistry & Biomedicine, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, Neuroscience, Ecology & Evolution and Chemistry. We also house the Sussex Drug Discovery Centre which works to deliver the bench-to-bedside translation of our discoveries. The breadth and depth of our cutting-edge research and innovative teaching practice is delivered by a diverse community who work across boundaries to deliver excellence, engage with real world problems and produce impact.

We pride ourselves on our world-leading research and have a strong research economy, with approximately 50% of our income stemming from research and an active grant portfolio of over £50 million. We host or form part of three University Centres of Excellence: the Genome Damage and Stability Centre, Sussex Neuroscience and Sussex Sustainability Research Programme. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, 90.6 % of our Biological Sciences outputs and 84.8% of our Chemistry outputs were rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We are proud that in both areas, 100% of our Impact cases were rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.

The School is committed to the University’s core values of kindness, integrity, inclusion, collaboration and courage. We believe that equality, diversity and inclusion is everyone’s responsibility and aim to provide a friendly and supportive environment for all who work, study and visit the School of Life Sciences.

The School of Life Sciences is proud to hold a Silver Athena Swan Award.

Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme.

Sussex is a renowned, multi-accredited, research-led International University and this is only possible because of the people that work here. Whether you are a member of Faculty, part of a Professional Services team or a Student, it’s our people that make us great and we want you to be part of that.

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Please contact Dr Varun Sreenivasan at v.sreenivasan@sussex.ac.uk for informal enquiries. Further details on the lab can be found at https://www.sysneurodevlab.org/

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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