Research Laboratory Manager, UCD Bio and Envir. Science, Temp

Applications are invited for a temporary post of a Research Laboratory Manager within UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science. Two of the greatest challenges that society faces are healthy ageing and better resistance to infectious diseases. BATPROTECT (a six-year funded ERC SYNERGY project) will provide novel solutions to both of these challenges by developing bats as new mammalian model systems https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/synergy-grants-2023-examples-pro…. Bats are unique among mammals, having evolved extended healthspans and extraordinary disease resistance, allowing them to asymptomatically live with many viruses. The aim of BatProtect, is to uncover and validate the regulation of the molecular pathways that drive longer healthspan in mammals, developing bats as an alternative model study system. This will provide a better understanding of the ageing process and its genomic regulation, thus identifying novel molecular targets, that in the future, could be modified to alleviate human ageing. To do this, wild and captive populations of exceptionally long-lived and short-lived bats will be studied as they age- integrating cutting-edge comparative phylogenomics, with novel ex-vivo cell biology and wildlife population transcriptomics- to uncover the protective cellular mechanisms that have evolved in bats to enable them to have longer `health-spans'. This project will integrate small mammal field work, with comparative genomics, transcriptomics, comparative cell and ageing biology. We are looking for a dynamic and skilled individual to join the Teeling lab at UCD. The Research Laboratory Manager will be involved in all aspects of this project, from field biology, molecular data generation, comparative genomics and cell biology and will work closely with PI Teeling in further developing the molecular assays and generating the required data.Fixed Salary: €55,000 per annum Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 07/07/2025. Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications. UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.

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