Postdoctoral Research Associate - Liverpool, United Kingdom - University of Liverpool

University of Liverpool

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are seeking an ambitious scientist to join a vibrant team examining masticatory biomechanics and muscle physiology in the rabbit.

The overall aim of this project is to deliver an exhaustive, quantitative anatomical and functional data set on the masticatory system of the rabbit.

This data set will be used by the team to achieve two specific objectives:
(1) to characterise anatomical, mechanical and physiological changes in the rabbit masticatory system in response to controlled interventions and (2) to build, drive and validate new dynamic biomechanical models of rabbit mastication. It is hoped that demonstrating the validity of these computer models will lead directly to the reduction, refinement and/or replacement (3Rs) of animals in a range of research fields related to biomechanics and physiology. State-of-the-art techniques: biplanar x-ray videography, medical imaging, in-vivo and in-vitro muscle physiology and traditional anatomical dissection, will be used to quantify musculoskeletal anatomy, muscle mechanical function, bone strain and in-vivo masticatory kinematics and kinetics. These data will feed into a computational model that will be developed by a second research associate, working in collaboration with mechanical engineers at the University of Leeds, who will carry out the second modelling objective described above. You will be based primarily in the new William Henry Duncan Building at the main campus of the University of Liverpool within the Institute of Life Course & Medical Science. You will have the ambition to develop your expertise in the fields of mammalian masticatory anatomy, biomechanics and muscle physiology, and the ability to develop independence in research. The post is funded for three years as part of a four-year project grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

You will have a PhD in mammalian anatomy, biomechanics muscle physiology or relevant discipline.

This post is available from 1 April 2024 until 31 March 2027.

Any applicants who are still awaiting their PhD to be awarded should be aware that if successful, they will be appointed at grade 6, spine point 30.

Upon written confirmation that they have been successful in being awarded their PhD, they will be moved onto grade 7, spine point 31 from the date of their award.