DSDNA
Postdoctoral (junior) research position at the Department of Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids
Joint Laboratory of the
Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University
and
Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
Brno, Czech Republic
Please contact Prof. Jiri Sponer for further details
sponer at ncbr.muni.cz, fax: 420 5412 12179, phone: 420 5415 17133
http://www.ibp.cz/en/departments/structure-and-dynamics-of-nucleic-acids/
Junior researcher (postdoc)– full time job
Required
- Ph.D. or equivalent in relevant areas
- excellent publication record
- experience in relevant areas
Start of the contract: July - September 2012
Initial contract for one year with possible extension till 2015, with a prospect for further standard research contract.
Salary depends on the research experience and the actual working performance, but for qualified hard-working person is expected to be around 55,000-60,000 CZK/month. This is more than twice above the average salary in the Czech Republic (1 EUR is ~25 CZK).
Description of the work.
Computational studies on structure, dynamics, function and evolution of RNA and DNA molecules and protein-nucleic acids complexes.
Theoretical studies of basic molecular interactions and chemical reactions in biomolecular systems including reference QM computations, prebiotic chemistry and force field development.
Methods:
The candidate is expected to have strong background in either
Quantum chemistry
or
Explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations
Alternatively, candidates with experience in QM/MM methods, bioinformatics or coarse-grained computations could also apply.
See the laboratory web page for the current research directions. Possible research areas are high-quality QM calculations on NA, with specific emphasize on NA backbone, force field testing and parametrization, simulations of RNA, RNA protein complexes, noncanonical DNAs, RNA catalysis, prebiotic chemistry.