Job Description
Postdoctoral Researcher
Salary range: £44,247 rising to £50,379 per annum.
Contract type: Fixed term.
Mode: Full-time.
Grade: 7.
Business Unit: School of Natural Sciences.
Closing date for applicants: 07-Jul-2026.
Ref No: 2417.
We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join a new multidisciplinary research project on a full-time 24 month contract.
Role and Responsibilities
You will be involved in constructing the first complete atomic model and conducting large-scale Molecular Dynamics simulations of the yeast kinetochore-microtubule complex, supported by recent structural and in vivo work from the Barford lab (MRC-LMB, Cambridge) and the Tanaka lab (University of Dundee).
You will elucidate the molecular mechanisms of tension-dependent stabilisation, phosphoregulation, and force transduction of kinetochore-microtubule attachments in mitotic cell division.
This w...