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Role: A vacancy has arisen at Lonza Biologics - Advanced Protein Technologies group (Cambridge-UK) for a Research Scientist on Structural Bioinformatics / Computational Biochemistry to apply and develop its technology platform.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and run software tools required for protein aggregation analysis, protein stability, conformational characterisation and protein engineering.
- 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 existing in silico platform technology.
- Participate actively in service projects and collaborations involving protein improvement and characterisation.
Requirements:
Qualifications: Degree / MS or 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 and protein structure
- Competent in the use of UNIX platforms Experience in scripting and programming (desirable at least basic knowledge in C++ or Perl)
- Previous experience in protein modelling
Desirable:
- Experience in management of computer clusters / servers.
- Familiarity with non-linear statistical data modelling tools (supervised clustering, machine learning, etc.) and data mining.
- Previous experience in molecular dynamics.
- Familiarity with antibody structure and bioinformatics tools related to antibodies.
Are you interested?
Please apply by September 29th 2007 by sending a CV and a covering letter quoting your salary expectations to: careers.slough@lonza.com (ATTN: Jill Westhoff)
Note that this post is based in Cambridge, UK
Location: Cambridge, UK; CB22 3ATStatus: Full Time, Permanent
Reference Code: APT-SB1