Re: [ccp4bb] Instrument help: any comments on bench-top SPR

2016-10-07 Thread Karthik S
Bioptix is another option you may consider for your needs. if they still have the Bioptix Innovators program running you may also be able to have the instrument placed for a free timed trial with training to see if fits your needs. contact them to see. the sensor chips, one for amine-coupling is

Re: [ccp4bb] Tenure Track Positions in UK

2016-10-07 Thread Keller, Jacob
Hi Tony, thanks very much for this description-I see things are quite different in the UK compared to the US, for better or worse. I appreciate your taking the time to walk through it. I guess fellowship might be the most likely path to take. Thanks very much, and all the best, Jacob From:

[ccp4bb] MX Beamline Engineer Position at LRL-CAT/APS

2016-10-07 Thread Jordi Benach
Dear CCP4 colleagues, I am currently looking for a Beamline Engineer to join my team. This individual will be responsible for the daily maintenance and running of Eli Lilly's Macromolecular Crystallography beamline (LRL-CAT) at the Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory near

Re: [ccp4bb] Instrument help: any comments on bench-top SPR

2016-10-07 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Disclaimer: I am not being paid to say this, but both Reichert and SenseIQ should be considered. They both make really good instruments (we have access to Reichert, looking at SenseIQ right now) and they're both *fairly affordable*. Artem www.harkerbio.com "where all SPR is good SPR but some of

Re: [ccp4bb] Tenure Track Positions in UK

2016-10-07 Thread Antonio Ariza
Dear Jakob, I'm trying to do this myself. So, this is my own experience of how things work around here ... if anybody disagrees or has any further input, please let me know as I'll appreciate any help I can get. In order to find an academic opening you can search for a lecturer (this is

[ccp4bb] Instrument help: any comments on bench-top SPR

2016-10-07 Thread Cheng Zhang
Dear colleagues, I would like to ask for asuggestions on bench-top SPR machine. In our lab we study the interaction between membrane proteins and peptide and lipid ligands. Our main focus is the structural study. We also want to use SPR to measure the binding kinetics such as on and off rates.

[ccp4bb] Postdoc and senior scientist positions available in membrane protein and CRISPR field

2016-10-07 Thread Zhiwei Huang
Postdoctoral and senior scientist positions are available in professor Huang’s laboratory at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. Our research interests focus on: The mechanism of virus-host interactions (Guo et al Nature, 2014); the work mechanism of CRISPR-Cas systems (Dong et al

[ccp4bb] Tenure Track Positions in UK

2016-10-07 Thread Keller, Jacob
Dear British Colleagues, I have been looking through the Nature/Science Jobs websites for tenure-track positions, but have seen proportionally very few notices for positions in the UK. Is there a hiring freeze due to Brexit, or is there some special way that these jobs are posted? How does one

[ccp4bb] FREE Symposium on Membrane Protein Sample Preparation & Analysis

2016-10-07 Thread Dr. Isabel De Moraes
Dear CCP4 colleagues, The Membrane Protein Laboratory (MPL) at the Diamond Light Source and GE Healthcare are organising a FREE Symposium on Membrane Protein Sample Preparation & Analysis. The symposium will take place on the 10th November, 9:30am at the Pickvance Lecture Theatre, Harwell

[ccp4bb] DL_Software training and Hack Day workshops

2016-10-07 Thread Ilian Todorov
Dear community, We will hold a 3-day DL_Software training workshop at Daresbury Laboratory from 5 to 7 December 2016, followed by a Hack Day on 8 December 2016. The aim of the workshop is to provide familiarity, understanding and training in a number of molecular simulation programs under the

[ccp4bb] PhD position available

2016-10-07 Thread Apirat Chaikuad
Posted on behalf of Prof. Stefan Knapp The Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, currently offers a position for a PhD student (E13 TV-G-U, 65%) in the research group of Prof Knapp (http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/53483664/Knapp). The position is available