POSTDOCTORAL POSITION is available immediately under the direction of Dr. Liu in the Laboratory of Transcription and Gene Regulation at The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota.
About the Institute
The Hormel Institute, a biomedical research center of the University of Minnesota, was established in 1942 and has an excellent reputation and a long history of conducting world-class medical research. The Institute’s research success was instrumental in contributing to a second major expansion of its research facilities and includes an additional new state-of-the-art laboratory building that opened in January 2016. The Hormel Institute offers its research scientists complete access to state-of-the- art cutting edge equipment that includes a cryo-electron microscope (Titan Krios and Tecnai G2 Spirit Biotwin); FACS cell sorter; confocal microscopy; flow cytometry; protein crystallography robotics and diffraction system; nano-HPLC-AB SCIEX triple TOF 5600 mass spectrometry; Leica tissue processor, embedder and microtome; real-time PCR instrumentation; a Blue Gene/L and 3 racks of Linux GPU supercomputers for computational biology and bioinformatics; spectrophotometers; and Western blot imagers.
About the Lab
My laboratory focuses on studying the structure and molecular mechanisms of RNA synthesis machinery from medically important viruses using cryo-EM and complementary biochemical approaches.
Lab website: https://www.hi.umn.edu/research/faculty/bin-liu-phd/
Requirements
We are seeking enthusiastic and highly self-motivated candidates who graduated within the past two years. Applicants should have strong scientific writing skills and hands-on experience in molecular biology, biochemistry, and recombinant protein expression and purification. Experience with insect cell expression systems is strongly preferred. Experience in electron cryo-microscopy (grid preparation and data processing) would be a plus, but not required.
To Apply
Please submit your curriculum vitae and contact information for three references to Dr. Liu. Please use “Postdoctoral Position” as the subject line in your email.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $63,000.00 - $68,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
