Postdoctoral Research Associate in stem cell and developmental biology

A full-time Postdoctoral position in quantitative stem cell and developmental biology is available in the Liverpool Development and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, headed by Dr David Turner in the Department of Musculoskeletal and Ageing Science at the University of Liverpool. Our lab's interests lie in taking quantitative fixed and live-cell approaches to understand cell decision-making processes during early development using cutting-edge in vitro model systems, such as 3D Gastruloids. Gastruloids are aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) generated in non-adherent culture, which are able to effectively recapitulate many of the processes of early mammalian development such as symmetry-breaking, polarisation, gastrulation-like movements and the development of the three embryonic axes.

This exciting, multidisciplinary project aims to understand how glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) regulate biological function, using gastruloids as an experimental model. You should have a PhD in stem cells/developmental biology or related discipline. Expertise in cell culture and fluorescence microscopy is essential.

This post is available from 1 April 2024 until 1 January 2029.

Any applicants who are still awaiting their PhD to be awarded should be aware that if successful, they will be appointed at grade 6, spine point 30.  Upon written confirmation that they have been successful in being awarded their PhD, they will be moved onto grade 7, spine point 31 from the date of their award.

The University has the right to close the vacancy early if it is deemed that there have been enough applications received