Postdoc on Plant Epigenetics at University of Edinburgh

Salary range: £32,004 – 38,183

Applicants are invited to fill a Postdoctoral position within the 
laboratory of Justin Goodrich in the Institute of Molecular Plant 
Science at the University of Edinburgh (see lab website: 
http://goodrich.bio.ed.ac.uk/).

The Postdoctoral Fellow will work together with a research assistant on 
the project “Characterization of a novel plant Polycomb group protein 
complex and its effects on the plant epigenome”.   The work will be 
focussed on using biochemical and genomic approaches to find out how the 
recently identified ALP1 protein regulates Polycomb group protein 
activity in plants. The project is a bilateral one with joint funding 
from the UK BBSRC and SFI Ireland and work will be carried out as a 
collaboration with the plant developmental genetics group of Frank 
Wellmer at Trinity College Dublin.

We are seeking highly motivated and talented scientists with excellent 
wet lab skills in Arabidopsis genetics and epigenetics. Candidates with 
strong additional skills in protein purification and biochemistry are 
particulary welcome.  Applicants should have prior experience and 
publications on Arabidopsis genetics and/or epigenetics, ideally as 
first author in high impact journals on relevant topics. Candidates 
should be willing and motivated to work in a collaborative team 
environment towards generating excellent scientific outputs, and have 
experience of contributing to the writing of research publications, 
grant applications and research progress reports.

The project is funded for up to three years by the Biotechnology and 
Biological Sciences Research Council.  The successful candidate will 
begin in June 2017.  Applicants are invited to apply online through the 
University of Edinburgh vacancies website 
(http://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/) using the vacancy reference 039284 .

Ref: vacancy 032984
Closing date: 19 April 2017