Applications are invited for a temporary post of a Research Scientist - Bioinformatics within UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science.
Two of the greatest challenges that society faces are healthy ageing and better resistance to infectious diseases. BATPROTECT (a six-year funded ERC SYNERGY project) will provide novel solutions to both of these challenges by developing bats as new mammalian model systems
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/synergy-grants-2023-examples-projects. Bats are unique among mammals, having evolved extended healthspans and extraordinary disease resistance, allowing them to asymptomatically live with many viruses.
BATPROTECT brings together a team of global leaders in bat biology and ageing (Emma Teeling, University College Dublin, Ireland), bat immunology and virology (Linfa Wang, NUS- Duke, Singapore), evolution and genomics (Michael Hiller, Senkenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany), and ageing model organisms (Bjoern Schumacher, Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease, Cologne, Germany) that will jointly investigate the ageing and immune responses in bats from the wild and captive colonies, discover genes with evolutionary importance for longevity and disease resistance, and functionally validate longevity and immune regulators in stem and differentiated cells of bats and model organisms, with the ultimate goal to uncover new directions to improve human healthspan and disease outcome.
Salary range: €58,000 - €68,000 per annum
Appointment on the above range will be dependent upon qualifications and experience.
Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 15th of November 2024.
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.
UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.
Prior to application, further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from the Work at UCD website:
https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/