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About the Project

This highly multidisciplinary project will combine small molecule production in marine algae with a biocompatible non-enzymatic reaction to access small molecules of importance to the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry. This unique approach will apply chemical catalysis in this living organism for the first time, redirect its metabolism and enable access to a class of compounds that cannot be achieved using synthetic biology alone.
As such, this project offers a unique training environment to gain experience in a broad range of chemical and biological laboratory techniques: including synthetic biology, chemical synthesis, microbiology (especially focussed on optimising the growth of various algae) and the analysis of microbial metabolites produced from these experiments using analytical techniques such as HPLC, GC-MS and NMR.
This project is funded by IBioIC (http://ibioic.com) in the Wallace Lab (http://wallacelab.bio.ed.ac.uk) at the Institute for Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology (IQB3) and will involve a 3-6 month placement at MiAlgae (https://www.mialgae.com) in Edinburgh.

http://wallacelab.bio.ed.ac.uk
https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/quantitative-biology-biochemistry-biotechnology
@Wallace_Lab
@Dr_StephenW
@MiAlgae

All interested applicants should send a cover letter and CV to Dr Wallace ([Email Address Removed]) as soon as possible.

Equality and Diversity
The School of Biology holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education: https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/equality-and-diversity/athena-swan
The University is a member of the Race Equality Charter and is a Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champion, actively promoting LGBT equality. The University has a range of initiatives to support a family friendly working environment. See our University Initiatives website for further information. University Initiatives website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/equality-diversity/help-advice/family-friendly

Funding Notes

This fully-funded 4 year studentship covers tuition fees and stipend. Note that candidates must meet EPSRC eligibility criteria, found here: https://epsrc.ukri.org/skills/students/guidance-on-epsrc-studentships/eligibility/
The “Visit Website” button on this page will take you to our Online Application checklist. Please complete each step and download the checklist which will guide you through the application process. Application deadline is 5pm Monday 20 July 2020.

References

(1) Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 7106-7109
(2) Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 12409-1241
(3) Biotechnol. Adv. 2018, 36, 26

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Green Chemical Synthesis using Microalgae and Biocompatible Chemistry

University of Edinburgh School of Biological Sciences