Post-doctoral Scientist Position Imperial College London
Department of Life Sciences Salary scale: £32,750 – 41,540 per annum (Maximum starting salary: £33,590) Applications are invited for a two year MRC funded Research Associate position investigating structure and mechanism of cell signalling systems involved in ER stress. The post is available from Jan 2014, and the research will be based in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London, under the supervision of Dr Maruf Ali. The Department of Life Sciences has access to state of the art facilities for all aspects of structural biology, including NMR, EM and X-ray machines. The post holder will utilise biochemical and structural techniques, principally protein X-ray crystallography, to characterize proteins and complexes involved in ER stress pathways. You will be responsible for expressing, purifying, and crystallising recombinant proteins obtained from both bacterial and baculovirus expression systems, and collecting data of crystals from synchrotron sources. You must hold a PhD or equivalent in structural biology/protein characterization. You must also have experience of protein expression, purification and crystallisation for structural analysis. Informal enquires may be made to Maruf Ali (maruf....@imperial.ac.uk) Our preferred method of application is online via our website http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment. (please select “Job Search” then enter the job title or vacancy reference number, including spaces – NS 2013 268 IL - into “Keywords”). Please complete and upload an application form as directed. Closing date: 20 December 2013 (midnight GMT) --------------------------------------------- Dr Maruf Ali Cancer Research UK RCD Fellow RM 505 Sir Ernst Chain Building Department of Life Sciences Imperial College London SW7 2AZ UK Email: maruf....@imperial.ac.uk<applewebdata://3F614C25-62AB-4D12-9A13-72CF130357AD/maruf....@imperial.ac.uk> Tel: 0207 594 5733 ---------------------------------------------
