Job Description

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Research support: GAL3ST1 in prion diseases and aging within the Institute of Prion Diseases. This role is for an asap start date and has a projected end date of March 31st 2024. This a part-time role at 20 hours per week. Payment will be set at Grade 6 Spine 21 - 28, \xc2\xa316.36 to \xc2\xa319.61 + holiday pay per hour. This role will be office based. Preferably 2 days a week.

The Institute of Prion Diseases is a new Institute set up within the Faculty of Brain Sciences, School of Life and Medical Sciences (SLMS), at UCL. The Institute incorporates the MRC Prion Unit which has transferred to the new Institute as part of the MRC\'s national strategic programme of transferring existing MRC Units to universities. The aim of this is to increase strategic alignment between MRC and UCL investments, enhance interactions and improve efficiency and flexibility, thereby maximising the resources available for the science.

The post-holder will be recruited to a research programme led by Professor Simon Mead and will be part of the genetics team responsible for providing prion protein gene sequencing for patients, sample processing and arching and biomarker research. This work underpins the introduction of a novel monoclonal antibody therapy for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease introduced by the National Prion Clinic.

We are preferably looking for someone who has worked for a year in the lab doing at least some of the techniques mentioned below.

This is a challenging post for someone with experience of working in a clinical or research laboratory utilising automated lab equipment, and a good understanding of how it works. The post-holder will be required to provide research support for long term projects investigating the molecular basis of prion diseases, and potentially includes work in ACDP Cat III laboratories.

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Duties and responsibilities

Main duties:

• Support for GAL3ST1 project
• Tissue Culture
• Western blotting
• DNA / RNA extraction and amplification
• Lipid assays (training offered)

Professional and Quality Standards:

Attention to detail and meticulous record keeping are required for this position. Some of the work will be carried out at containment level 3 and will require knowledge of, and adherence to, specialized procedures. They will also be responsible for general laboratory organization.

General:

As duties and responsibilities change, the job description will be reviewed and amended in consultation with the post holder.The post holder will carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager.

The successful candidate will need to meet UCL\'s expectations of core behaviours, as outlined in http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/od/core-behaviours/index.php

The post holder will actively follow UCL policies including Equal opportunities and Race Equality policies.

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Skills and experience

Qualifications/ Certification:

• Bachelor\'s degree in a relevant subject, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard from a recognised higher education institute

Experience/ Knowledge:

• Human sample handling
• Working in ACDP CL2 laboratories
• PCR
• DNA extraction
• Western blotting
• Tissue Culture work
• RNA work

Skills/ Aptitude:

• Able to work effectively with a PhD student on a joint project

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Location
UCL

Additional information

This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Thursday 31st September 2023. Interviews will be held shortly after.

*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).

Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received.

Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates

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