I am recruiting for a postdoc position in my group, available immediately. This is the Protein Crystallography group of the Structural Genomics Consortium, Toronto. This position is in collaboration with The Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics Group.
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 Toronto site is now halfway through Phase II which is funded till June 2011; this phase has an increased emphasis on chemical biology and membrane proteins. For details, please see: http://www.thesgc.org/ or contact me for further info. The Protein Crystallography group collaborates tightly with the other groups to get their proteins solved (eight 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 Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics Group at the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), University of Toronto, aims to characterize chromatin proteins involved in histone code "reading" and "writing" by X-ray crystallography in combination with other biochemical and biophysical techniques. -- Alexey Bochkarev, Ph.D. Principal Investigator, Macromolecular Crystallography Structural Genomics Consortium, Toronto Tel: 416-946-0805 Fax: 416-946-0588
