As part of the European Commission funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative training network (ITN) programme: Enhancing Chinese hamster ovary cells by Mammalian Systems Biotechnology (eCHO-Systems), we are seeking three highly ambitious and talented Early Stage Researchers to register for PhD studies to work on interdisciplinary projects in the Centre for Molecular Processing and School of Biosciences at Kent. eCHO systems is a large Horizon2020 funded programme which brings together fifteen leading academic and industrial partners in an European network, implementing interdisciplinary and intersectorial research and training programme within CHO systems biology, bioprocessing, synthetic biology and genome engineering.

As an Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, you shall at the time of recruitment be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of your research career and have not yet been awarded a doctoral degree. At the time of recruitment, you shall not have resided or carried out your main activity (work, studies etc.) in the country of the host institution (UK) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.

The three specific posts at Kent are to undertake work in the following areas:
1. Secretion pathway engineering
2. Translational engineering
3. Genome scanning and synthetic biology approaches to improve recombinant protein production

Research Fields
Biological sciences - Biological engineering

Further details:
http://ec.europa.eu