Hi,

        I wanted to draw people’s attention to the research fellow position 
available in my laboratory starting on January 1st 2015:

You will study the structure and function of integral membrane proteins, 
including the Kv11.1 potassium channel in collaboration with Professor Asipu 
Sivaprasadarao. Your aim will be to determine the structure of this novel ion 
channel, and understand how the differences between it and the classic Kv1.2 
channel explain why it promiscuously interacts with structurally unrelated 
drugs to cause cardiac side effects. The project combines production 
purification with crystallisation, crystallography to determine the structure 
and mechanism. In addition, you will have responsibility for driving other 
structural biology projects in the lab.

You will work in the multidisciplinary School of Biomedical Sciences (SBMS), 
which includes biochemists and physicists, and as part of the Astbury Centre 
for Structural Molecular Biology. You will be supervised by Professor Adrian 
Goldman (SBMS).

You will be a highly motivated individual with a strong basis in all aspects of 
structural biology from expression to structure determination, and you will for 
preference have experience in working with membrane proteins. You should either 
have a PhD (or be close to completion) in structural biology, biochemistry or a 
related discipline. You will have previous experience of protein cloning, 
expression and purification in E. coli and other systems, as well as 
demonstrated ability to solve protein structures by x-ray crystallography, EM 
or NMR. Experience using complementary techniques such as SAXS would be a plus.

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Adrian Goldman, tel +44 (0)113 343 
8537, email [email protected]

The link for applying is at: 
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJY448/research-fellow-structural-studies-of-integral-membrane-proteins/


Adrian Goldman, Ph. D.
Division of Biochemistry,
Biological and Environmental Sciences,
P. O. Box 56, Viikinkaari 5
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Tel:            +358 29 41589087
email:  [email protected]

School of Biomedical Sciences               
Faculty of Biological Sciences,
University of Leeds
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
Tel:            +44 113 343 8537
email:  [email protected]

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