Dear Colleagues, A postdoc position is available in my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. We are seeking to appoint a motivated person with PhD training in structural biology to reveal the structure and function of unconventional kinetoplastid kinetochore proteins.
Although it was widely believed that all eukaryotes would have a conserved set of kinetochore proteins, we identified more than 20 uncharacterized kinetochore proteins (named KKT1–25) in Trypanosoma brucei and discovered that they constitute unconventional kinetochores specific to kinetoplastids, a group of evolutionarily-divergent eukaryotes (Akiyoshi and Gull, Cell 2014, Marcianò et al, Journal of Cell Biology 2021, Tromer et al., Open Biology 2021, Ludzia et al., Structure 2021). We are currently characterizing these KKT proteins using various techniques including cell biology, bioinformatics, super-resolution microscopy, biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology (X-ray crystallography, NMR, electron tomography, and cryoEM/ET). For more information, please click on the link below: https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=153946 Please contact me if you are interested in this position. Best wishes, Bungo ---------------------------------- Bungo Akiyoshi, PhD Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, EMBO YIP Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford https://bungoakiyoshi.com/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
