University of Sydney

Life and Environmental Sciences

PostdoctoralResearchAssociate

$90–121k Sydney, New South Wales, Australia FULL TIME
The Brief

“Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Sydney. Skills: Plant Developmental Biology, flower development, Arabidopsis thaliana, organ positioning, cell polarity patterning, perturbation approaches, live-imaging. generate and maintain transgenic Arabidopsis lines containing GFP-based polarity reporters. document protein expression and localization patterns using live imaging and whole-mount immunolocalization”

Industry & Context.

Life and Environmental Sciences
Problems you'll solve

test regulatory hypotheses

Eligibility Requirements

pre-employment or background checks, declare if you have been investigated for, or found to engaged in, sexual harm or gender-based violence in the course of previous employment or in a legal process

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

PhD (or near completion) in plant cell, developmental or molecular biology, or related field, proven track record of scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team, a desire to contribute to an interdisciplinary collaborative project, working closely with partner scientists, expertise in plant genetics, cloning, biochemistry, gene expression and protein-protein interaction analysis

Nice to Have

experience with dissection and confocal imaging

What You'll Do.

generate and maintain transgenic Arabidopsis lines containing GFP-based polarity reporters

document protein expression and localization patterns using live imaging and whole-mount immunolocalization

devise and conduct fine-scale perturbation experiments to test regulatory hypotheses

supervise PhD students working on related projects

coordinate research activities with international collaborators

present findings at conferences and seminars

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

work closely with partner scientists; coordinate research activities with international collaborators

Communication Scope

present findings at conferences and seminars; write manuscripts

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