5 Year Fixed-Term based in Grenoble (2 Posts) Starting Salary: (Research RA1A) Grade 7 £27,466
Two postdoctoral researchers are sought to work in Grenoble on projects in structural biology as part of a collaboration involving Keele, Cambridge, Glasgow, King's College London, Oxford, Portsmouth, Reading, and Southampton Universities. The projects will be carried out in collaboration with the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), and the EMBL Grenoble Outstation. The projects, using small angle scattering, fibre diffraction, macromolecular crystallography, NMR, will exploit platforms within the newly created Partnership for Structural Biology, including the ILL/EMBL Deuteration Laboratory. The PSB is a partnership aimed at focusing state-of-the-art facilities available on fundamental issues relating to human health. Successful candidates will have a PhD in the physical sciences, biophysics, biochemistry or molecular biology. Projects include structural studies of human pyruvate dehydrogenase, lipid/membrane protein interactions, labelling methods for NMR, subunit structure of type I restriction-modification enzymes, DNA & DNA-ligand interactions, amyloidogenic peptides, chromatin structure, and filamentous viruses. These projects are funded by the EPSRC, and will be based at the ILL. The PSB/ILL is situated in a lively scientific campus in the heart of the French Alps. Further information on the ILL and its activities may be obtained at http://www.ill.eu Informal enquiries: Prof. V.T. Forsyth ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) or +33 (0)4 76 20 71 58 Full job packs are available from Human Resources Department, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, fax: 01782 583471, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/uso/hr/cwisvacs.htm Please quote reference number: RE07/19UK Closing date for applications: 30 November 2007 An equal opportunities employer