PX Job Postings

Protein Crystallography Job Postings

Full Time Positions

20 Apr 2010 - Applications are being accepted for a tenure track position at the Assistant or
Associate Professor level in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of
Waterloo. Applicants should have a PhD and postdoctoral experience with a research record in
Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography.

30 Mar 2010 Genentech Research Associate/Senior Research Associate - Biophysics/Biochemical
Pharmacology; Responsibilities: This position will develop, optimize, validate and execute Surface
Plasmon Resonance (SPR as implemented with Biacore technology) assays that monitor direct
binding of small molecules to protein targets. The successful candidate will play a key role in
developing innovative SPR methods and applications, as well as applying SPR and other biophysical
techniques within multi-disciplinary drug discovery project team.

30 Mar 2010 - Recruiting individuals with extensive experience in molecular biology, protein
purification, crystallization and automation to join the Protein Production Core of the newly
established NIH-funded Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI). The goal of the EFI is to develop a
general sequence/structure-based strategy for facilitating the discovery of in vitro enzymatic
activities and in vivo physiological functions of uncharacterized enzymes discovered in genome
projects.

11 Feb 2010 - Rigaku Automation, Inc., a subsidiary of Rigaku Americas Corporation, located in
Carlsbad, CA, is looking for a unique experienced business and marketing professional who
possesses strong scientific and communication skills.

8 Feb 2010 - The Division of Structural Biology at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
in Braunschweig/Germany invites applications for the position of a Head of Junior Research
Group (tenure track); Area of research: Structural biology.

22 Jan 2010 - Genentech is among the world’s leading biotech companies, with multiple therapies
on the market for cancer and other serious medical conditions. The following opportunity exists in
the South San Francisco, CA, headquarters: Scientist - Protein Biochemist/Crystallographer

Postdoctoral and Student Positions

20 Apr 2010 - A Post-doctoral position is available immediately to study the structure and function
of cytokine receptor complexes that play essential roles in the development and control of the
adaptive immune response. Mark R. Walter, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at
Birmingham (UAB)

20 Apr 2010 - Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in the Division of Molecular
Biosciences in the field of time resolved Laue X-ray crystallography of light sensitive proteins in
the group of Dr. Jasper van Thor (Imperial College).

20 Apr 2010 - A postdoctoral position at OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc. to work on structural
assessment and re-refinement of a large number of protein-ligand complex structures from a number
of pharmaceutical companies to be deposited with the Community Structure-Activity Resource
(CSAR) and the PDB.

14 Apr 2010 - A postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Biochemistry at Emory
University (Atlanta, GA). This position is aimed at understanding the structural and mechanistic
basis for the evolution of novel function within the steroid hormone receptors.

30 Mar 2010 - A postdoc position in membrane protein structural biology is available in the
Biomolecular Research Laboratory (BMR) at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.

30 Mar 2010 - Dr. Ruth Brenk, Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, College of Life Sciences,
University of Dundee - looking for a highly motivated computational chemist to be part of a multi-
disciplinary team to apply molecular modeling methods towards the discovery and optimization of
inhibitors of key enzymes of gram-Negative pathogens. The post is available immediately.

12 Mar 2010 - A postdoctoral position is available for a skilled protein crystallographer interested in
challenging projects in the Hurley lab, NIDDK, NIH. We are seeking to understand the structure
and function of membrane-associated multiprotein complexes involved in protein and lipid trafficking.

5 Feb 2010 - A postdoctoral position is available to study the structure of diverse drug targets in
the laboratory of Dr. Barry Finzel in Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of
Minnesota Twin Cities Campus.

5 Feb 2010 - Three Year Postdoctoral Position in Protein-DNA Crystallography, Institute of
Biomedical and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Portsmouth, U.K.

28 Sept 2009 - The Northeastern Collaborative Access Team (NE-CAT), located at the Advanced
Photon Source near Chicago, is seeking applicants for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position.
In addition to opportunities to conduct independent and/or collaborative crystallographic research at
the nation's largest synchrotron light source facility, the primary responsibility of the incumbent will
be to enhance NE-CAT's beamline sample automounter program, including upgrades and
maintenance of the existing systems and providing training and support to users.

28 Sept 2009 - A post-doctoral position is available in the research group of Thilo Stehle at the
University of Tübingen. A major focus of our research is to define molecular mechanisms of
attachment and cell entry for viruses and other pathogens.

28 Sept 2009 - Two Postdoctoral Research Associates - Department of Biochemistry & Sir William
Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University, to study the Notch pathway, a universally conserved
signal transduction system in metazoan organisms which plays a crucial role in many biological
processes, including cell fate determination during development, cell proliferation, apoptosis and
angiogenesis.

28 Sept 2009 - Laboratory of Structural Biology Brussels is looking for a motivated scientist to
collaborate in an ESA (European Space Agency)-research project on the crystallization of
biological macromolecules. The project aims at understanding nucleation and growth processes
occurring during crystallization of proteins. This is a Ph.D. student position.

28 Sept 2009 - A 3 years post-doctoral position is available (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) to
work on the structural biology of DNA transfer systems used by Gram-positive bacteria during DNA
exchange processes such as conjugation and natural transformation.

28 Sept 2009 - Cambridge Univ. looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral research fellow to join
in developing novel fragment-based strategies to investigate the druggability of protein-protein
interfaces with respect to modulation by small molecules, and implications for drug design.

28 Sept 2009 - A post-doctoral position in Structural Biology at St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital is available for highly motivated applicants to study the structure and function of replication
proteins and their interaction with DNA.

23 Sept 2009 - A postdoctoral position is available for an experienced molecular
biologist/macromolecular crystallographer in the laboratory of Erik Johansson and Elisabeth Sauer-
Eriksson at Umeå University. The project involves structure-function studies of DNA polymerase
epsilon.

16 Sept 2009 - POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITIONS - UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH is looking for
research associates/postdoctoral fellows to work on structures of macromolecular complexes and
assemblies involved in HIV-1 biology and bacterial chemotaxis using cryo-EM methods.

2 Sept 2009 - Looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral research fellow to join our laboratory at
the Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We are interested in
proteins that mediate the formation, maintenance and plasticity of synapses.

1 Sept 2009 - A postdoctoral position is available for a highly motivated individual at the Department
of Medical Biochemistry & Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden to join on-going
research in the laboratory aimed at the structural and functional characterization of proteins and
protein complexes from major pathogens.

16 August 2009 - A post-doctoral position is available in my laboratory at University of Texas Medical
Branch (UTMB) at Galveston to study the structure and mechanism of virus infection.

30 July 2009 - POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AT
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET. As part of a collaboration between the laboratories of Rune Toftgård
and Luca Jovine at the KI Department of Biosciences and Nutrition and the Center for Biosciences, a
postdoctoral position is immediately available on structural studies of key players in the Hedgehog
signaling pathway.

29 July 2009 - A postdoctoral position is immediately open at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(UWM)/USA in the field of time-resolved macromolecular crystallography, initially for a period of
one year, with the option to extend for a second year. The candidate will work with Marius Schmidt,
department of physics, and Andy Pacheco, department of chemistry and biochemistry.

25 July 2009 - Two positions at a post-doctoral and a senior technician level are available from
September 15th at the Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme of the Spanish National
Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid, Spain. The research focuses on signalling and
structural aspects of cell adhesion and growth factor signalling.

Websites

AAAS Science Careers Community - Find a job posted on the Science website.

Biospace Life Science Community - Biotech and pharmaceutical news & jobs.

CCP4 wiki (positions) - Protein crystallography job postings.

EMBL Jobs - European Molecular Biology Labs website.

fuuze.com - The free job portal.

myspace jobs - A list of current protein crystallography jobs from various sources.

Swedish Structural Biology Network Job Page- Structural biology jobs including
bioinformatics.