Grade UE07: £41,064 - £48,822 per annum

College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine/School of Neurological and Cardiovascular Sciences/Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research

Full-time: 35 hours per week, 100% on campus

Fixed-term: for 20 months

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a highly motivated Research Fellow to join Professor Andy Baker’s laboratory in the Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research at the University of Edinburgh. This full-time post is funded by a British Heart Foundation (BHF) grant and will focus on the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (sc/snRNAseq) and spatial omics data in cardiovascular and vascular biology.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team of basic and clinician scientists, contributing to experimental design, data analysis in single-cell and spatial omics, and publication of high-impact research. The role offers excellent opportunities to contribute to high impact publications, develop specialist skills in single-cell and spatial omics, and work at the interface of computational and translational cardiovascular research.

Your Skills and Attributes for Success:

• A PhD (or equivalent experience) in bioinformatics, computational biology, biostatistics, computer science, data science or a closely related discipline.
• Proven experience in analysis of high-throughput sequencing data, ideally with a focus on single-cell/-nucleus RNAseq and/or spatial omics.
• Proficiency in R and/or Python for data analysis, with experience using relevant packages (e.g. Seurat, Bioconductor, Scanpy, Squidpy) and the Linux command line.
• Experience using high performance computing or cloud environments (e.g.SGE, AWS, University of Edinburgh infrastructure – Eddie, Eleanor).
• Experience developing and maintaining reproducible analysis pipelines, including use of version control (e.g. Git, GitHub/GitLab).
• Strong skills in data visualisation, documentation and communication, including the ability to explain complex analyses to non-computational colleagues.
• Evidence of collaborative working with experimental or clinical researchers and contribution to manuscripts or scientific outputs.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week) and 100% on-campus working.

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How to apply

Please include the following documents in your application:

- CV

- Cover letter

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School of Neurological and Cardiovascular Sciences
Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research
Our institute fosters collaborative neuroscience, cardiovascular, metabolic and psychiatric research to tackle some of the world's most significant health challenges.

Our research explores health and disease across the body and life course – from tiny changes in cells to the lived experience of patients. Together, we work to advance the understanding, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of major health conditions including heart disease, stroke, metabolic dysfunction, mental illness, dementia and neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. Empowered by genetics, advanced imaging, artificial intelligence and clinical trials, our research seamlessly connects discovery science with clinical care.

Our work is internationally acclaimed, achieving 4* and world-leading classifications for the majority of our research, health and wealth impacts and research papers in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 assessment, the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions.

As part of driving progress in our core research areas, we host internationally leading research centres and state-of-the-art technologies:

• Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic
• British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Research Excellence
• Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention | CPSP
• Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research
• Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility
• Edinburgh Imaging
• Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory
• Medical Research Council/British Hearth Foundation Centre of Research Excellence in Advanced Cardiac Therapies
• MS Society Edinburgh Centre for MS Research | MS Society
• Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre
• Patrick Wild Centre
• Row Fogo Centre for Research into Ageing and the Brain
• Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB)
• UK Dementia Research Institute at Edinburgh
• UKRI Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry

Our institute community
Training and education
We offer a wide range of postgraduate training opportunities. Students learn from world-class researchers, access outstanding facilities and get support to develop. Our graduates go on to successful careers in academia, research, healthcare and industry worldwide. Our colleagues are also leading contributors to undergraduate programmes.

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We are seeking a highly motivated Research Fellow to join Professor Andy Baker’s laboratory in the Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research at the University of Edinburgh. This full-time post is funded by a British Heart Foundation (BHF) grant and will focus on the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (sc/snRNAseq) and spatial omics data in cardiovascular and vascular biology.