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Applications are invited for a Biocurator to join PomBase, the model organism database for the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The project's aims are to manually curate and integrate molecular, genetic, biochemical and sequence data for fission yeast.

Applicants will have completed a PhD and have a background in biocuration and/or in yeast experimental biology, with a degree in Cell biology, Biochemistry, Genetics or a similar field. They should also have skills in data organization and basic bioinformatics and a passion for reading and interpreting original research. The applicant will need to have a broad understanding of eukaryotic cell biology. Experience in ontology use and/or editing would be an advantage.

The University of Cambridge is a signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research (Assessment DORA) and in recruitment or promotion evaluations will assess research on the basis of its merits rather than the journal or venue in which it is published. Applicants should not include Journal Impact Factors or uncontextualised metrics in their applications. For more information: https://www.biology.cam.ac.uk/files/dora.pdf

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 1 year in the first instance, with a possibile extension. Part-time hours may be considered.

Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.

For an informal discussion please contact Professor Juan Mata: jm593@cam.ac.uk

For any questions about this vacancy or the application process please contact: personnel@bioc.cam.ac.uk

Please quote reference PH41373 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Join us for the East of England Health Data Event, where we'll introduce the new Secure Data Environment and discuss your views.

This event looks at addressing gender-based violence and creating safe spaces. Lunch will be provided.

'The boy who breathed on the glass at the British Museum': what, or whom, is the past for?

Applications are invited for a Business Administration Advanced Apprentice to work in the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI) and Department of Haematology.

This role is based in the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Wellcome MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Department of Haematology professional services team. The role provides an efficient administrative service to the Finance, Postgraduate Education, HR and Operations (communications, events and public engagement) management in the Institute and Department. The role will provide support across multiple and diverse research groups and will play a key part in the Office, PhD, Finance and HR administration processes in the University. The role will rotate through the sub-teams to earn a broad range of experiences and will provide support to a wide range of different areas and projects.

If you have any queries regarding this position, please contact Rebecca Coull, Senior HR Coordinator rc980@cam.ac.uk

We welcome applications from individuals who wish to be considered for flexible working arrangements.

Fixed-term: 20 months.

How To Apply:

To apply for this role, please use this link to access the National Apprenticeship Service site and follow the on-screen instructions on how to submit your application:

link https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeships?ApprenticeshipLevel=All&Hash=0&Location=cb20ab&LocationType=NonNational&PageNumber=1&ResultsPerPage=5&SearchAction=Search&SearchField=All&SearchMode=Keyword&SortType=Relevancy&WithinDistance=5&DisabilityConfidentOnly=False

Please quote reference PS41299 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

We are looking to appoint a Proteomics Technical Lead to join the Proteomics Facility at the MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge. The facility performs a fundamental role in tackling proteomic-based problems for the Unit's scientific programmes.

As the Proteomics Technical Lead you will work on several projects in response to the needs of our researchers and actively participate in mass spectrometry/proteomics method development. You will be responsible for sample preparation, reporting results to scientists, operating and maintaining specialist equipment and general laboratory management.

You will ideally be skilled in a broad range of methods in proteomics and biological mass spectrometry and chromatography and have excellent communication skills to enable to you work on projects which are often transient and time critical. You will need to have a degree in a scientific discipline, preferably with a postgraduate qualification. You will also be an excellent communicator and team player, with the ability to manage a laboratory including health and safety, purchasing and equipment maintenance.

The Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit is an internationally renowned institution focussed on the delivery of field-changing mechanistic insights into toxicology and disease and is based in the newly refurbished Gleeson building, central Cambridge.

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Informal enquiries can be directed to Sandip Patel skp59@cam.ac.uk

If you have any queries regarding the application process, please contact hradmin@mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk

Further information can be found on our website: https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk

Please note, previous applicants need not apply.

Please quote reference PU41321 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 31 August 2025 in the first instance.

Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.

The Department of Veterinary Medicine would like to appoint a highly motivated Research Laboratory Technician to provide technical support for research activity in order to ensure the smooth running of the Biomineral Research Facility. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a cutting-edge research environment while making a meaningful impact.

The Biomineral Research Group endeavours to unravel the intricate ways in which minerals influence both health and pathology, aiming to leverage this knowledge for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes, including through engineered mineral structures. Diseases of special interest to the Group are cancer and autoimmune/inflammatory disorders. Recent work focused on improving understanding of cell exposure to titanium dioxide (E171) in humans (Curr Opin Toxicol. 2020 Feb:19:112-120).

The successful candidate will have practical experience of laboratory research and strong organisational skills. ICP-MS analysis will be the major technique employed, but there will also be opportunities to work with collaborators in confocal microscopy and other analytical and imaging techniques.

This is a full time, fixed term position. The funds for this post are available until August 2025 in the first instance. We welcome applications from individuals who wish to be considered for part-time working or other flexible working arrangements. Applications are also welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.

Key responsibilities of the role will include:

Preparing and analysing samples in support of research activity, contributing to the design of research experiments, developing new or improved methods of testing under the supervision of research or academic staff, collating results for interpretation by others.

Overseeing day-to-day running of the laboratory, including ordering, managing laboratory databases, equipment purchase and maintenance, overseeing laboratory safety procedures

Essential attributes:

Educated to A level, NVQ level 3, or an equivalent level of practical experience

Practical experience of laboratory technician/biological scientific research work

High degree of precision and accuracy

Good IT skills

Good communication skills

Good organisational skills

Desirable attributes:

BSc in a relevant scientific discipline

Experience in analytical science

Willingness to work on more than one research project at the same time

For informal enquires please contact: Dr Alicja Dabrowska (ad981@cam.ac.uk). To submit an application for this vacancy, please click on the link 'Apply online' This will route you to the University's Web Recruitment System, where you will need to register an account (if you have not already) before completing the online application form.

Further particulars for the role and information about the Department www.vet.cam.ac.uk

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Interviews will be held 15 May 2024

Please quote reference PP41320 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

The event includes a student workshop, a round table around photographic collections and three lectures on Susan Drucker’s work, on the historisation of field interactions and on mestizaje and categories of identification in Mexico.

This free exhibition, curated and researched by Paula López Caballero, displays photographs and ethnographic fieldnotes produced by Cambridge-based anthropologist Susan Drucker-Brown (1936-2023) in the Mixtec-speaking village of Jamiltepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) in 1957 and 1958.

This talk offers a critical evaluation of the popularly-held view that the origins of the English lie in 5th- and 6th-century population movement from north-west Europe. It argues, instead, that surviving evidence indicates post-imperial evolution and adaptation from the Romano-British past.

How does the interpretation of geometric rock art in Uganda shed light on the societal and cultural experiences of African Pygmy forest hunter-gatherers?

Inside Sigmund Freud's lost psychobiography of American president Woodrow Wilson.

How have Russia’s sanctions impacted international business? What keeps CEOs awake at night--and what should be keeping them awake?

The Choir of St John’s College and The Gesualdo Six in concert in the St John's College Chapel..

The Centre for Faith in Public Life at Wesley House and The Woolf Institute – both members of the Cambridge Theological Federation – are co-sponsoring an in-person day conference on The Bloom Review: Does government ‘do God’? an independent review into how government engages with faith.

In their last event of the year, the Cambridge University Wind Orchestra will be performing a special Gala Concert.

In their final concert of the 23/24 season, Cambridge University Orchestra presents an exciting programme of Haydn, Mozart and Rameau under the direction of Margaret Faultless.

IAS quartets perform Bartók String Quartet No. 2 and Robin Holloway’s String Quartet No. 4.

Max Todes conducts a chamber orchestra of students from across the university, convened especially for the lunchtime concert series in a performance of Beethoven's sixth symphony.

THE TRUTH ABOUT CONTRACEPTION With speaker Kate Muir Followed by a panel discussion with Dr Madeleine Lameris and Dr Louise Newson