UCL Tomlinson Lab: Research Assistant / Research Fellow

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant / Research Fellow (Post-doctoral Scientist) position within the Division of Infection and Immunity at UCL in Dr Gillian Tomlinson's laboratory.

They are seeking a highly motivated individual interested in integrating cutting-edge human and zebrafish models to study the immunopathogenesis of tuberculosis. The post is funded by a Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Fellowship entitled "Tuning the immune response in tuberculosis", which combines transcriptomic profiling of human TB samples with the zebrafish larval Mycobacterium marinum infection model of TB. This project will test putative drivers of TB disease severity, identified from our human data, in the zebrafish larval mycobacterial infection model.

The post-holder will be supervised by Dr Gillian Tomlinson based in the Cruciform Building. Dr Tomlinson works closely with Professor Mahdad Noursadeghi's and Professor Benny Chain's groups which study host immune responses to infectious diseases at genome-wide level with a particular focus on tuberculosis (www.ucl.ac.uk/innate2adaptive). The zebrafish work will be supported by the fully managed world class research aquarium at UCL.

Find out more and apply online.