Dear all, we have a vacancy for a postdoc within the MX group at Diamond. Full details can be found at http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/Jobs/Current/DIA0584-TH.html. Interested candidates can contact me directly by email for further details on research project associated with the post
Martin PDRA, Beamline I04-1 Diamond Diamond Light Source is a new synchrotron and a leading scientific facility of its type in the world. Located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in South Oxfordshire, we host facilities supporting cutting edge research in all fields of science. We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced crystallographer at the Post Doctoral Research Associate level to join the I04-1 beamline within the Macromolecular crystallography village at Diamond. I04-1 is a fixed wavelength (0.92 Å) insertion device beamline dedicated to macromolecular crystallography (MX) and complements the other four currently operating MX beamlines at Diamond. I04-1 provides a high flux X-ray beam for macromolecular structure determination by the Single Anomalous Diffraction (SAD) or Molecular replacement (MR) methods. A state of the art automated endstation consisting of a MD2 microdiffractometer, a Pilatus 2M hybrid pixel array detector and a CATS robot for automated sample handling is integrated into a automated data reduction pipeline that provides users with a high-throughput crystallography platform. Research will be focused on structural studies of a multifunctional bacterial uptake system that is required for critical mechanisms of bacterial survival in the human.
