Research Assistant City, University of London London

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City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution.
The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.
Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a ‘health powerhouse’ for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK’s largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.
The merger creates opportunities to generate significant change in the world of healthcare including changes to treatment, population health monitoring, workforce development and leadership, policy, and advocacy.

Background

A Research Assistant position is available at City St George’s, University of London to work with Professor Jodi Lindsay, Dr Adam Witney and Dr Alex McCarthy (Imperial College). The post-holder will be funded by the MRC Project Grant “Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Transfer in MRSA: Novel Mechanisms, Barriers, and Environmental Controls”.

The RA will work on a project aimed at characterising the distribution and function of genes controlling horizontal gene transfer in the important human and animal pathogen, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We use a combination of multidisciplinary methods, including gene transfer assays, genetic engineering, bioinformatics and tissue culture. The project also funds a Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Mentoring, training, leadership and conference opportunities are offered in a supportive environment.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate should have a good BSc (or be close to completion) in microbiology or similar, with research laboratory experience in horizontal gene transfer and/or antimicrobial resistance genes mobility. We are looking for an ambitious person with exceptional attention to detail, who wishes to develop their career and make exciting translational discoveries in the AMR field.

Additional Information

Please quote reference: 642-24

Closing date: 10 December 2024

For further information about this position and to apply visit,

https://jobs.sgul.ac.uk/642-24

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Jodi Lindsay at jlindsay@sgul.ac.uk or visit the lab website https://www.sgul.ac.uk/profiles/jodi-lindsay

St George’s School of Health and Medical Sciences is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.