Postdoctoral Research Associate

This Postdoctoral Reserach Assocaiate post has risen as a result of a BBSRC grant awarded to Dr Nikolas Nikolaou and is essential to a
programme to understand the extra-nuclear function of SNRNP70, a major spliceosome protein, in
modulating the axonal transcriptome and regulating neuronal connectivity.
You will have a central role in completing an exciting programme of research to determine, validate and
characterise the axonal RNA processing roles of SNRNP70, using a combination of in vivo zebrafish, ex vivo
(primary neuron cultures), and in vitro approaches. More broadly, you will have a responsibility for enabling
and supporting the ultimate research aims of the laboratory: to uncover novel molecular and cellular
mechanisms that regulate the assembly and function of neural circuits and how such processes are linked to
neurological and neurodegenerative conditions in humans.