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Role:
A vacancy has arisen Lonza biologics - Advanced Protein Technologies group (Cambridge-UK) for a Senior Scientist in Structural Bioinformatics / Computational Biochemistry to develop and expand its technology platform.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and run software tools required for protein aggregation analysis, protein stability, conformational characterisation and protein engineering.
- Design and implement modifications to existing tools to expand their current capabilities and throughput. Co-ordinate research activities with other members of APT as well as external collaborators and contractors to consolidate and enhance current in silico platform technology.
- Participate actively in service projects and collaborations involving protein improvement and characterisation.
- Supervise junior members of the bioinformatics team.
Requirements:
Qualifications: PhD in Bioinformatics or Computational chemistry/biochemistry, or alternatively in Biological Sciences / Biochemistry with relevant experience in protein computational analysis, or Structural Bioinformatics.
Essential experience and skills:
- Good background in structural bioinformatics.
- Previous experience in protein modelling Fluent in the use of UNIX platforms.
- Experience in scripting and programming (desirable knowledge in C++ or Perl).
- Experience in management of computer clusters / servers
Desirable:
- Familiarity with non-linear statistical data modelling tools (supervised classification, machine learning, etc.)and data mining.
- Previous experience in molecular dynamics.
- Familiarity with antibody structure and bioinformatic tools related to antibodies.
Are you interested?
Please apply by September 29th 2007 by sending a CV and a covering letter quoting the reference APT-SB2 and your salary expectations to: careers.slough@lonza.com (ATTN: Jill Westhoff)
Note that this post is based in Cambridge, UK
Location: Cambridge, UK; CB22 3AT
Status: Full Time, Permanent
Reference Code: APT-SB2