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Research Technician

University of Oxford
Oxfordshire
3 weeks ago
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a Research technician to join the Biology Department and provide research support to the Fitz-James Lab and the Animal Vibration Lab. Responsibilities of the post include maintaining live animal stocks as well as conducting molecular biology experiments to advance larger research projects. This may include DNA/RNA extraction, PCR & agarose gel electrophoresis, chromatin techniques such as Cut&Run, sequencing library preparation and creating recombinant DNA (cloning). Further details of the research projects can be found on the labs’ respective websites: The University of Oxford is committed to equality and valuing diversity. All applicants will be judged on merit, according to the selection criteria. This post is full time (although applications to work >60% of full time are welcome) and available from 1 September 2025.

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