Applications are invited for the post of University Lecturer in Plant Sciences. A £250,000 grant from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation is available to support the candidate’s research programme. The appointee will play a central role in the Department's undergraduate teaching. However, the first priority will be to establish a productive research programme and initially the appointee will have only minimal teaching responsibility. There is particular interest in candidates withexpertise the following areas:
Microbiology of viruses, bacteria, fungi or algae, with links either to industrial biotechnology or plant pathology.
Mathematical and computational biology including epidemiology, bioinformatics and complex systems modelling at any level from the cell to the ecosystem.
Ecology and evolution including molecular ecology.
Synthetic biology.
Genome biology of plants, including crops.
Plant Taxonomy
Further particulars are available on http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/jobs/PD09392.pdf