Job Description

The Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) is a leading multi-disciplinary institute devoted to developing new paradigms for understanding biological functions in health and diseases from the perspective of cell, tissue and organ mechanics/dynamics and mechano-signal transduction. The institute operates on a fully integrated open-lab philosophy, with an extensive infrastructure supported by core facilities dedicated to technology such as state-of-the-art light microscopy, nano- and micro- fabrication, and computing.

A Research Assistant position is available in the Single-Molecule Biophysics Lab at the Mechanobiology Institute. The Research Assistant will assist in the research of the team by contributing to building and maintaining magnetic tweezers instruments and training other group members to use them. He or she will also share the workload of single-molecule manipulation experiments. Primary responsibilities will include:

• Building, testing, and maintaining magnetic tweezers instrument
• Share workload on single-molecule studies of mechanosensing proteins

Qualifications

1. Minimal Bachelor’s degree, college background in Physics; 
2. Capable of building fluorescence microscopes independently; 
3. Extensive undergraduate research experience related microscope building and optics. 
4. Skillful in Labview and MatLab programming. 
5. Skillful in imaging analysis and imaging correlation analysis. 
6. Experiences in DNA and protein biochemistry as well as single-molecule manipulation

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: Mechanobiology Institute

Department : Research

Employee Referral Eligible: No

Job requisition ID : 27358