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Research Fellow in Metabolic Physiology
Grade G (£31,607 - £36,371)
Length of contract- 3 years
About the Role
Our modern world presents fewer opportunities to live active healthy lives. Healthy foods are expensive; high calorie foods are cheap and readily accessible. We exercise less, and jobs increasingly require hours of sitting at screens. Despite this, a proportion of people remain slim and healthy. What is their "secret"? The Metabolic Resilience Laboratory aims to uncover the biological mechanisms underpinning maintenance of enhanced health in the face of genetic and environmental conditions that cause metabolic disease in most people (obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart and circulatory problems).
As a Post-Doctoral Fellow with experience in metabolism and physiology, you will join our team to uncover these enigmatic processes, unravelling the physiology and genetics of thinness in bespoke animal models that have been bred to exhibit contrasting fat versus thin, or high versus low metabolic rate profiles. You will identify and characterise candidate causal genes for healthy thinness, and figure out the molecular, cellular and whole physiological impact of these genes. Your work may uncover new therapeutic targets for metabolic disease by gaining insight from the biology of disease resistance.
For more details, please take a look at the role profile. We'll still consider applications even if you don't meet every single one of the requirements, so don't be put off if you don't match them perfectly.
About Us
The School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is an exciting multidisciplinary environment for learning, teaching and research, with some of the best facilities in the UK.
We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality teaching and diverse, real-world research. We specialise in biosciences, chemistry, computing and technology, as well as engineering, forensic science, mathematics, physics and sport science. This mix of traditional and modern subjects encourages and inspires future innovators.
You will work in the state-of-the-art Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Centre (ISTeC) that houses two major and evolving and complementary strategic themes, Metabolic Health, and Neurophysiology with extensive expertise in cutting edge in vivo and in vitro metabolic phenotyping, as well as cell imaging and molecular techniques available across the Centre.
For any informal queries about the role or the team, please contact SHiMR Centre Director and Professor of Metabolic Resilience Nik Morton via nik.morton@ntu.ac.uk
Join Us
- Hybrid working - we encourage and offer a mixture of office working and working from home. You're empowered to define how you work best for the benefits of your stakeholders.
- Flexibility - take ownership over how you get your work done. We're open to different working patterns and approaches.
- 25 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays and 5 university closure days pro rata.
- Salary Sacrifice Retirement Savings Plan with life assurance and income protection. Available to colleagues who choose to opt out of the contractual pension scheme. Minimum colleague contributions of 0% matched with minimum NTU contributions of 8%.
- Range of health and wellbeing services, voluntary benefits, discounts, and savings for all colleagues.
- Access to a wealth of formal and informal professional development opportunities to develop your skills and advance your career.
- And a whole lot more…
Come and be part of our success. Apply today.
Safe and Inclusive
At NTU, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our students and colleagues. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team.
Please note that unfortunately, this role has been assessed as ineligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration points-based immigration system. However, applications are welcome from candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK, but who would be eligible to obtain a valid visa via another route. Please consult the Home Office website for further information.
Please note that this role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and successful applicants will be asked to declare any unspent criminal convictions.
