Location: Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Fixed term 2.5 years (1 September 2026 – 28 February 2029). Salary $92,350 per annum. Full‑time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago is one of the largest departments in the university, contributing to national and international research and to undergraduate and postgraduate education across multiple health and science disciplines.
As a Postdoctoral Fellow you will lead a Marsden‑funded project titled “Dissecting the Role of Mitochondrial DNA Mutations on Phenotype and Fitness Using Cutting‑Edge Mitochondrial Base Editors”. Your work will focus on developing and applying mitochondrial base editing technologies in fruit flies to investigate the effects of mitochondrial mutations on phenotype and fitness.