Research Assistant (0.5 FTE)

Department Department of Infection Biology Salary £39,984 to £45,728per annum pro rata inclusive ClosingDate Tuesday 08 September 2026 Reference ITD-DIB-2026-10

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

We are seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to investigate enteric pathogens, with a particular focus on Campylobacter jejuni, one of the leading bacterial causes of human gastroenteritis globally. This post aims to apply integrated multi-omic approaches to characterise the interactions between enteric pathogens, the intestinal microbiota and the host (particularly avian biology). Using genomic, metagenomic, and metabolomic analyses, the successful candidate will investigate the microbial and functional mechanisms that underpin bacterial colonisation, persistence and transmission. The project will integrate high-throughput sequencing, bioinformatic analyses and systems-level data integration to identify microbial and metabolic signatures associated with pathogen fitness, gut ecology and disease. The Research Assistant will contribute to studies that improve our understanding of enteric pathogen biology and host-microbiome interactions, generating new insights to support the development of strategies to reduce the burden of enteric disease.

The post will be based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine with the team of Dr Ozan Gundogdu and his team.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

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