Postdoctoral Researcher

Salary range: £44,247 rising to £50,379 per annum.

Contract type: Fixed term.

Mode: Full-time.

Grade: 7.

Business Unit: School of Natural Sciences.

Closing date for applicants: 07-Jul-2026.

Ref No: 2417.

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join a new multidisciplinary research project on a full-time 24 month contract.

Role and Responsibilities

You will be involved in constructing the first complete atomic model and conducting large-scale Molecular Dynamics simulations of the yeast kinetochore-microtubule complex, supported by recent structural and in vivo work from the Barford lab (MRC-LMB, Cambridge) and the Tanaka lab (University of Dundee).

You will elucidate the molecular mechanisms of tension-dependent stabilisation, phosphoregulation, and force transduction of kinetochore-microtubule attachments in mitotic cell division.

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