College of Medical Veterinary & Life Sciences
School of Infection & Immunity
Research Technician
Vacancy Reference: 163991
Salary: UofG Grade 5, £26,038 - £30,505 per annum
This post is full-time and open ended with funding up to 17 October 2025 in the first instance.
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The post holder will join the School of Infection and Immunity, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (University of Glasgow - Research - Research units A-Z - MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research) and will contribute to a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship grant entitled “Mitigating bat viruses: from forecasting spillover to control at the source”, working with Professor Daniel Streicker.
We are seeking to appoint a Research Technician to carry out research into the sero- and molecular-epidemiology of vampire bat rabies. The post will involve improving and carrying out a pseudotype virus neutralization assay to detect rabies virus neutralizing antibodies in bat sera, carrying out qPCR to detect rabies virus in saliva samples, and carrying out nanopore sequencing to age bats from their DNA using an existing epigenetic clock. The post would require work in CL2 and, potentially, in a derogated CL3 laboratory.
Informal enquiries about this post may be directed to Prof Daniel Streicker (Daniel.Streicker@glasgow.ac.uk)
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Closing Date: Wednesday 12th February 2025
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