{"id":34,"date":"2025-01-21T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/wschafer\/contact\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:32:27","slug":"contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/wschafer\/contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact\/Open Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our lab welcomes postdocs, students and visitors from around the world. Come see us, or join us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An MRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship is currently available to work on octopus connectomics in our lab. Applications close on 12 April 2026, apply <a href=\"https:\/\/mrc.tal.net\/vx\/mobile-0\/appcentre-int\/brand-3\/spa-1\/candidate\/so\/pm\/1\/pl\/3\/opp\/2795-Postdoctoral-Scientist-Neurobiology-Dr-William-Schafer-LMB-2795\/en-GB\">here<\/a> if you are interested!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also very much encourage applicants to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mrclmb.ac.uk\/careers-and-people\/postdocs\/career-returner-fellowship\/\">MRC Career Returner Fellowship<\/a> (for scientists returning from a career break) or the <a href=\"https:\/\/mrclmb.ac.uk\/careers-and-people\/postdocs\/rising-talent-fellowship\/\">Rising Talent Fellowship<\/a> (for Black heritage scientists) to apply to our lab. Applications open in April 2026; if you are interested in any of our projects please feel free to email if you have questions or want to discuss ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-columns gb-layout-columns-2 gb-2-col-equal\"><div class=\"gb-layout-column-wrap gb-block-layout-column-gap-2 gb-is-responsive-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<p>Neurobiology Division<br>MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology<br>Francis Crick Avenue<br>Cambridge CB2 0QH<br>UK<br><br>+44 1223 267033 (office)<br>+44 1223 267136 (lab)<br><br>wschafer[at]mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<p>Department of Biology, KU Leuven<br>59 Naamsestraat&nbsp;<br>3000 Leuven&nbsp;<br>Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>+32 16 19 38 43 (office)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>william.schafer[at]kuleuven.be<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lab welcomes postdocs, students and visitors from around the world. Come see us, or join us! An MRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship is currently available to work on octopus connectomics in our lab. Applications close on 12 April 2026, apply here if you are interested! We also very much encourage applicants to the MRC Career Returner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/wschafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/wschafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/wschafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/wschafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/wschafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/wschafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/wschafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/wschafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/groups\/wschafer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}