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What can beer tell us about history and science? Find out at this Jesus College Intellectual Forum event.

Join the Jesus College Intellectual Forum to hear from Thomas Harding as he recounts the until-now untold story of a historic true crime.

Anna Taylor will lead an inspiring evening on the development of the David Parr House Visitor Centre garden planting and habitat creation to increase biodiversity in the garden for both house visitors and the city wildlife to feed and find shelter with. Anna will be speaking about creating climate-resilient planting that enhances a public multi-use space.

Join the Jesus College Intellectual Forum and Gates Cambridge to hear from Boat Race winner and elite rower Jenna Armstrong in conversation with Olympian Cath Bishop. They will discuss rowing, leadership, and the challenges of competing in elite sport.

Based in City Road Cambridge, Frederick R.Leach ran an important decorative arts company during the heyday of the Arts and Crafts Movement. This talk explores the life and impact of Leach, who was David Parr's employer and looks at the creative legacy of the Leach family, looking at some of the marks they made in Cambridge and beyond over four generations.

Join us on 23rd April, 6.30pm - 8.30pm for a talk with textile artist Lynn Setterington who will share her work featured in her book Connecting Threads, a collection of twelve textile projects created between 1981 and 2024. Each project acts as a social history document, telling untold stories and highlighting overlooked people, histories, and places through stitch.

Join us for a special screening of The Man Who Painted His House at All Saints’ Church, Cambridge. This new short film presents a poetic exploration of Parr’s craft and legacy. Made in collaboration with The Derek Jarman Lab and Birkbeck, University of London, the film was created by Dr Victoria Mills and Lily Ford, with an original score composed and performed by Richard Uttley.

Join Cambridge University Library for an evening themed around our exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World.

Illuminated by medieval manuscripts, Cambridge University Library's exhibition explores a complex and intriguing world of medieval medicine.

Experience Cambridge University Library's current exhibition with British Sign Language interpretation.

Join us for an evening with the curator of Cambridge University Library’s current exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World.

Public lecture given by Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño on the topic of the Virtue of Compassion, Mercy & Justice Must Shape the World We Live In

Join us for an evening of conversation about the hidden stories behind the world’s iconic natural history museums, celebrating the launch of Jack Ashby’s new book, Nature’s Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums.

Trinity College Fellows' Garden Open for the National Gardens Scheme

We require a part-time specialist in Equine Orthopaedics and Surgery to join team in order to manage and direct teaching in equine orthopaedics and surgery within the Department of Veterinary Medicine. You will take overall responsibility for the practical and didactic teaching of clinical veterinary students in the area of equine surgery and orthopaedics, including the planning, preparation and delivery of lectures, seminars, and classes and the provision of innovative course developments in relevant subject area(s). Working closely with the Equine Teaching Professor, you will be closely involved in the setting and marking of VetMB examinations including examination of both practical skills and theoretical knowledge across the clinical years of the course. You will also supervise student research projects in relevant area(s).

You will be a Diploma holder of the AVCS, ECVS, or RCVS, and : Have a veterinary degree registerable with the Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons and documented teaching experience.

Informal enquiries should be directed to Anna Hollis by email arh207@cam.ac.uk

For more information about the Department please visit www.vet.cam.ac.uk

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

Interviews are expected to be held late May/early June 2025

Please quote reference PP45681 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.

An exciting opportunity is available for a Research Laboratory Technician to join the group of Prof. Jake Harris at the Department of Plant Sciences. The laboratory is situated on the Downing Site in Cambridge and houses state-of-the-art facilities.

The project is part of a pioneering new effort to generate fully synthetic plant chromosomes, funded by the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA, please see here https://www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/programmable-plants/synthetic-plants) for more details). The postholder will support and perform various routine and higher-level molecular biology techniques in the lab, including cloning (PCR, gel electrophoresis, DNA purification, restriction reactions, ligation reactions, Gibson assembly, bacterial transformation and culture, plasmid purification, and Sanger sequencing), genotyping (collecting material, genomic DNA extraction, PCR, and gel electrophoresis), genetic transformations, as well as general plant husbandry and maintenance. The primary model organism is the 'green yeast', Physcomitrium patens, which holds many unique advantages for synthetic biology approaches. There is also scope for development in computational aspects and organisational pipelines. The project is part of an integrated team effort involving academic and biotech laboratories across the UK and Australia.

The successful candidate is not expected to be familiar with all these techniques; however, experience working with Physcomitrium patens or other non-vascular plants is highly beneficial. A willingness to learn and some prior laboratory experience is essential. The postholder will work closely alongside a postdoctoral researcher on the project and within a wider laboratory team setting, so evidence of successful teamwork to achieve well-defined project goals is critically important. The successful candidate will have a degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject, strong organisational and time-management skills, a positive attitude, and good team spirit.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance.

Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a health assessment.

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Please notice that if you have not received any news from us 1 month after the closing date you should consider that on this occasion your application has not been successful.

Please quote reference PD45704 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.

A Research Associate post is available in the Drosophila Connectomics Group directed by Greg Jefferis and Matthias Landgraf in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

The applicant will work with very large volume electron-microscopy Drosophila connectomics data as we approach the end of a £6.7M Wellcome international collaborative award with HHMI Janelia Research Campus, the MRC LMB in Cambridge and the University of Oxford. This project has worked towards production of two synaptic-resolution connectomes for an adult male and female Drosophila central nervous system (brain and nerve cord).

The principal focus will be the development of open source tools for the analysis of connectomics data. This will include developing tools to improve the quality of neuron identification and classification and the modelling of neuron and circuit function. Data sources will be neuronal morphologies, connectivity and computationally inferred or manually annotated metadata and published experimental data. A background in neurobiology, anatomy and a very strong quantitative preparation (with extensive experience in bioinformatics/computer science) will be essential. Prior experience with Drosophila connectomics data is desirable but not essential.

The successful candidate will join a team based in Zoology with 10 team members, carrying out data processing and analysis on computer-assisted neuronal reconstruction data. They will interact closely with a similar team in the US as well as experimental groups especially Greg Jefferis (Cambridge). Candidates will need to be highly motivated and develop a good understanding of the nature of the data and the project's scientific aims. This will be critical to setting priorities. Close teamwork and a collaborative spirit will be essential, but team members will be expected to demonstrate scientific independence matching their technical expertise. There will be opportunities to general project management, as well as to participate in public engagement activities.

Fixed-term: The position is full time, for 6 months. Funds for this post are available until 31st December 2025.

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered.

We particularly welcome applications from women and candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our University.

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If you have any queries regarding the application process please contact Anastasia Nezhentseva.

Email: an286@cam.ac.uk Telephone: (0)1223 330117

Please quote reference PF45663 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.

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant position in the group of Dr Maria P. Alcolea within the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI) and PDN Department at University of Cambridge. This post will be part of an ERC funded international collaborative effort to understand mutant cell competition.

Our group investigates how cells change their behaviour in response to tissue perturbations such as injury, ageing and the acquisition of cancer-related mutations. We make use of an interdisciplinary approach combining human tissue, mouse transgenic models, lineage tracing and 3D in vitro techniques to understand epithelial stem cell biology in the gastrointestinal tract.

We are looking to recruit a research assistant. The primary role will involve the management of multiple transgenic strains, performing and coordinating in vivo and in vitro experiments, administering varied treatment protocols and interventions as well as tissue collection and processing. The ideal candidate will also be able to oversee animal welfare and regulatory compliance.

The successful candidate will also be expected to provide technical support for other research activities, such as genotyping, staining, imaging, culturing of tissues, as well as to keep detailed records of the data and work undertaken. This role offers the opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary team building on previously published work on epithelial stem cell biology and early cancer.

Please note that an occasional weekend or evening work may be required.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance.

Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic disclosure (criminal records check) check, a health assessment and a security check. This appointment also requires a Research Passport application.

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Please ensure that you upload a covering letter and CV in the Upload section of the online application. The covering letter should outline how you match the criteria for the post and why you are applying for this role. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application.

Please include details of your referees, including email address and phone number, one of which must be your most recent line manager.

Closing Date: 22nd April 2025

Interview Date: To Be Confirmed

Please quote reference PS45659 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.

A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times; from Christopher Marlowe to Anthony Blunt, via James Bond. Tours are led by Green Badge Guides.

Join us for the first Ridley Theology Conference as we explore critical questions and promote a vision for theological education that is both academically rigorous, serious about the pursuit of biblical wisdom and missionaly transformative.