Research Officer (Kidney Disease Modelling)

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• MCRI is one of the top five child health research institutes worldwide
• Helping find the answers through ground-breaking research

Research Officer (Kidney Disease Modelling)

We currently require a Full Time Kidney Disease Modelling Research Officer on a 12-month contract to join the Kidney Development, Disease & Regeneration research group.

This position is available for a research officer level postdoctoral researcher with expertise in experimental nephrology or cell and developmental biology with an interest in modelling heritable glomerular and tubular disease using pluripotent stem cells. Preferably, you either have experience in glomerular injury or kidney disease more broadly, including cell culture and histology and/or experience with human stem cell culture and directed differentiation. Some level of molecular and cellular biology experience is essential, with a preference for skills in cell sorting, imaging, immunostaining and PCR.

For more information in relation to the position purpose, please see position description.

You will be responsible for:

• Team planning and staff supervision.
• Liaising with the clinical and bioinformatic leads advising the disease modelling team.
• Managing the acquisition of cells for the generation of cell lines.
• Optimising and troubleshooting the standard iPSC differentiation protocol for each new iPSC line.
• Immunofluorescent staining and microscopy, histology, TEM, qPCR and FACs analysis.
• Delivering experimental outcomes on time as the leader of a research team.
• Liaising with other members of the laboratory and with local and national collaborators.
• Maintaining full documentation and filing of all material and data.
• Presenting outcomes from the research team both verbally and in written form in both internal and external environments. This will include publications, reviews, abstracts, conference presentations, training sessions and lab meetings.

For more information in relation to responsibilities of the position, please see position description.

Key Selection Criteria

To be successful in this role you will have:

Essential

• A tertiary qualification in BSc/Honours/Masters or related discipline and relevant PhD plus an appropriate level of expertise gained from a combination of experience, training or professional accreditation.
• Skills and experience in cell and molecular biology, particularly pluripotent stem cell biology and/or expertise in experimental nephrology.
• Experience in cell/tissue analysis including immunofluorescent staining and quantitative PCR.
• Working with Children & National Police Clearance (if appointed) in compliance with the Victorian Governments Child Safety Standards.

Desirable

• Experience in experimental nephrology.
• Experience in the maintenance, quality control and directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells.
• Experience in high content imaging.
• Experience in other specialist skills potentially including FACS sorting, protein analysis, histology, EM, molecular cloning, transcriptional profiling and/or bioinformatics analysis.
• Experience in working with animals would be useful but not essential.

Only applicants who address the key selection criteria will be considered. Please place your responses to the key selection criteria at the end of your cover letter. For more information on this position, please contact Professor Melissa Little: [email protected]

Please note, applications will only be considered when submitted via the MCRI website. Please click apply to proceed with your application.

Closing Date: 5pm Tuesday 24 July 2018

Position Reference: 15222