Two Wellcome Trust funded postdoctoral positions are available at York Structural Biology Laboratory, to work with Dr Fred Antson. Both posts are available for 3 years, with potential to extend for a further 2-years. One project focuses on investigating protein-nucleic acid interactions within DNA-translocating molecular motors present in several viruses. This project will involve collaboration with Elena Orlova (Birkbeck College, London), Paulo Tavares and Leonor Oliveira (Unité de Virologie Moléculaire et Structurale, Gif-sur-Yvette), Juan Alonso (Biotecnología Microbiana, Madrid) and Carol Robinson (University of Oxford). The second project will focus on several tRNA-modifying enzymes, in particular, structural and functional studies of human dihydrouridine synthase implicated in lung cancer. This project is in collaboration with Marina Rodnina (Max Planck Institure for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen) and Eugene Koonin (NCBI/NIH, Bethesda).
Additional information and full details about the application process can be found at: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_web_page_id=154693 ................................................................................................................ Fred Antson York Structural Biology Laboratory Tel: +44-(0)1904-328255 Department of Chemistry University of York York YO10 5DD UK
