Current Opportunities

John Innes Centre
Research Assistant

Salary: £36,540 - £45,350

Research Assistants enhance the output of a research group by providing research and administrative support to the Group Leader and group members (postdocs, PhD students, visitors).

Post: 1006050
Posted: 13 Feb 2026
Closes: 9 Mar 2026
John Innes Centre
Postdoctoral Researcher

Salary: £37,500 - £45,350

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher in the laboratory of Professor Anne Osbourn.

Post: 1006046
Posted: 9 Feb 2026
Closes: 8 Mar 2026
John Innes Centre
Postdoctoral Researcher

Salary: £37,500 - £45,350

Postdoctoral Researchers work with limited supervision to carry out individual and collaborative research projects relevant to the overall needs of the research programme.

Post: 1006042
Posted: 9 Feb 2026
Closes: 27 Feb 2026
John Innes Centre
Postdoctoral Researcher

Salary: £37,500 - £45,350

Postdoctoral Researchers work with limited supervision to carry out individual and collaborative research projects relevant to the overall needs of the research programme.

Post: 1006041
Posted: 6 Feb 2026
Closes: 27 Feb 2026
John Innes Centre
Postdoctoral Researcher

Salary: £37,500 - £45,350

Working as part of a team led by Prof Myriam Charpentier, you will explore the mechanisms underlying nuclear calcium oscillation decoding using bioinformatic approaches.

Post: 1006040
Posted: 6 Feb 2026
Closes: 27 Feb 2026
John Innes Centre
Research Assistant

Salary: £28,890 - £35,670*

Research Assistants enhance the output of a research group by providing technical and administrative support to the Group Leader and group members.

Post: 1006038
Posted: 6 Feb 2026
Closes: 19 Feb 2026
John Innes Centre
Bioinformatician

Salary: £37,500 - £40,600

The successful applicant will join a team of bioinformaticians and software engineers to engage in cutting-edge computational analysis of plant- and microbe research data.

Post: 1006035
Posted: 3 Feb 2026
Closes: 16 Feb 2026

Salary: £37,500 - £45,350

The group will focus on sulphate and sulphite reducing bacteria, a key family of gut bacteria involved in sulfur and nitrogen cycling, and their interactions with the host and the wider gut microbiome.

Post: 1006049
Posted: 12 Feb 2026
Closes: 22 Mar 2026
Quadram Institute Bioscience
Research Scientist

Salary: £37,500 - £45,350

To create and use transposon mutant libraries in Salmonella and molecular microbiology to study how cells control drug entry (part of BBSRC LoLa grant).

Post: 1006043
Posted: 6 Feb 2026
Closes: 19 Feb 2026

Competitive salary

The Quadram Institute invites applications for an ambitious and collaborative Group Leader or Career Track Group Leader to pioneer the development of next-generation microbiome assays and model systems.

Post: 1006029
Posted: 20 Jan 2026
Closes: 15 Feb 2026
Quadram Institute Bioscience
Senior Research Scientist

Salary: £45,450 - £56,750

We are seeking a Senior Research Scientist to join a collaborative team studying xenobiotics-gut microbiome interactions as well as developing precision microbiome intervention trials.

Post: 1004957
Posted: 5 Jan 2026
Closes: 15 Feb 2026
Quadram Institute Bioscience
Group Leader (Microbes and Food Safety)

Competitive salary

The McLean Partnership has been engaged by Quadram Institute Bioscience to support this recruitment, please follow the link for more information.

Post: 1004850
Posted: 4 Dec 2025