Job Description
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING NETWORK Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:
Part of the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network ES-Cat, aimed at directed protein evolution for synthetic biology and biocatalysis. The project is an EU-funded collaboration between European laboratories working on protein engineering: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/hollfelder/Research/es-cat. We are seeking a motivated student for a Ph.D. in the Loschmidt Laboratories at the Masaryk University and International Centre For Clinical Research, Brno, Czech Republic: http://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/peg.
RESEARCH TOPICS:
protein engineering, directed evolution, mechanistic enzymology
software engineering: Caver, Hotspot Wizard, PredictSNP, FireProt
APPLICATIONS:
Curriculum Vitae
cover letter describing motivation and previous experience
two letters of recommendation
send the application to Jitka Sedlackova at jitkuj@gmail.com
SELECTED PAPERS:
Nucleic Acids Research 46: W356, 2018 Nucleic Acids Research 46: W344, 2018
Angewandte Chemie 56: 4719, 2017 ACS Catalysis 8: 2402, 2018
Nature Chem. Biol. 10: 428, 2014 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137: 4988, 2015
Information about Brno, Czech Republic:
The capital of South Moravian Region and the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400,000 people
Modern, dynamic and fast growing centre of industry, trade, science, research and innovation with business incubators and centres of excellence in science
A city of universities with more than 86,000 students
More than 10,000 researchers; 2,200 IF publications/year; 600+ PhD graduates/year, 500 mil. EUR of R&D investment per year, more than 350 companies with in-house R&D
City of Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics; the prestigious Mendel Lectures series takes place in Brno since 2003 (lectures of the world´s top scientists, including Nobel Prize winners)
For further information about:
Masaryk University, please visit www.muni.cz/en
Brno, please visit http://www2.brno.cz/index.php?lan=en&nav01=20608&nav02=20617
Requirements
PROFILE OF CANDIDATE:
experience in protein or software engineering
high motivation and enthusiasm
basic molecular biology OR programming in JAVA
proficiency in English language
Skills
Academic Research Java Molecular Biology PhD Protein Engineering
Language Requirements
English
Education Degree
Master's Degree
Visa Support
Yes