Senior Research Officer (Marine Physiology) |2021-2022 Scholarships Grants

The University of Essex it looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic post-doctoral research assistant to work on a project entitled “Identifying the mechanisms and resource use implications of acclimation to high-temperature in marine cyanobacteria” in Prof Richard Geider’s laboratory.

This project will be supervised by a team of established researchers with complementary expertise in phytoplankton ecophysiology (Prof. Richard Geider and Dr Tracy Lawson; University of Essex), plant molecular biology (Dr Uli Bechtold; University of Essex), proteomics (Dr Metodi Metodiev, University of Essex) and metabolomics (Prof. Nick Smirnoff; Exeter University) to investigate the mechanisms of long-term (days to weeks) acclimation of cyanobacteria to heat stress and the implications of this acclimation for their growth and physiology.

The main focus of the post-doc position will be on culturing and physiology. The post-doc will have the opportunity to co-supervise MSc projects and aspects of PhD student research, to contribute to the Public Understanding of Science, to be involved in non-academic impact that may arise during the project and to give papers at national and international conferences.

This is a fixed-term post based at our Colchester campus.

This post is fixed term due to funding.

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