Hi
I am recruiting for a postdoc position in my group, available
immediately. This is the Protein Crystallography group of the
Structural Genomics Consortium, Oxford. In particular, hard-core
crystallographers strong on theory and (optionally) with a bent for
programming, are invited to apply.
For details, please see: http://www.sgc.ox.ac.uk/jobs/H909009.html, or
contact me for further info. (If you miss the deadline, don't despair,
send your application anyway, directly to me.)
The remit of the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) is to solve human
proteins of medical relevance and place them in the public domain
without restrictions; it is funded by a consortium of public and
industrial funders, and consists of independently operating departments
in the Universities of Oxford and Toronto, and Karolinska Institutet
(Stockholm). The Oxford site has solved almost 300 such structures in
the last five years, and is now halfway through Phase II which is funded
till June 2011; this phase has an increased emphasis on chemical
biology and membrane proteins. (http://www.sgc.ox.ac.uk)
The Protein Crystallography group collaborates tightly with the 5 other
groups to get their purified proteins crystallized and solved (five per
month). Additionally, our research revolves around methods development,
for which we're ideally positioned thanks to accumulated historic data,
extensive automation equipment, close links to vendors, and especially,
access to the many proteins of high biological relevance. The current
emphasis is on methodology for rapidly and systematically generating
co-crystal structures, by expanding on the high-throughput approaches
that underpin our success with novel targets; this is of high relevance
to the the SGC's exploration of open source chemical biology.
Frank
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Dr Frank von Delft
Principal Investigator: Protein Crystallography
Structural Genomics Consortium
Oxford University
+44 1865 617583
