The Sainsbury Laboratory
The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) is located at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich. The Laboratory favours daring, long-term research and is housed in a modern building with access to state of the art technologies and support services to enable cutting-edge science.Our main goals are:
- To make fundamental discoveries in the science of plant-microbe interactions
- To build on fundamental scientific research and deliver science solutions that reduce crop losses to important diseases
- To provide an outstanding training environment that prepares scientists who pass through the laboratory to excel in their careers
Both the Sainsbury Laboratory and John Innes Centre are world-class centres for plant and microbial sciences. Due to their size and scope, they have excellent research facilities, particularly in the platform technologies that underpin modern molecular biology. As a result, TSL and JIC have an outstanding record of publications in high profile journals.
The Sainsbury Laboratory is a registered charity, number 1065510, and a company limited by guarantee, registered number 3346853 in England and Wales.
Registered office: JIC, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.
Contact us at: admin@tsl.ac.uk
Tel. +44 (0)1603 450400 Fax +44 (0)1603 450011
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Bioinformatician : 20 month term as PDRA
We are now seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and ambitious biologist or bioinformatician
to work on genomics of the ash dieback organism Chalara fraxinea.
Bioinformatician
We are searching for a dynamic and motivated bioinformatician to develop our core research programme in bioinformatics approaches to next generation genomics and genetics.
Post-doctoral Research position
30 month post-doctoral position is available in the group of Professor Jonathan Jones.
Bioinformatics Systems Administrator
The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) is seeking a Bioinformatics Systems Administrator to design, specify, develop, maintain and support commercial and bespoke software and database solutions used in the Laboratory’s bioinformatics analyses and pipelines.
Major Funding for Ash Dieback Fightback
The first DNA sequence data on the ash dieback fungus has been made freely available on crowdsourcing website OpenAshDieBack by scientists receiving major funding for a two-year research project.
Post-doctoral Research position
An 18 month post-doctoral position is available in the group of Professor Jonathan Jones. This project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration project