Jobs in Structural Biology and Related Fields


Staff Scientist Position – Structural and functional studies of protein complexes


EMBL Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Application deadline: 08 Aug 2019


The EMBL Hamburg Unit both provides and uses leading research infrastructure for applications in structural biology. A thematic focus shared between different research groups of the Unit is on addressing key questions in infection biology mechanistically.

The research group of Matthias Wilmanns has a long-standing record in structural biology on research themes of medical relevance. Their main research interest is the structures of large protein translocation systems and structural dynamics of giant muscle proteins. They additionally collaborate on specific research projects with several clinical groups with interests in tuberculosis, cancer and hereditary diseases. Most of their projects require integrative structural biology methods including X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy and complementary biophysical and biochemical approaches. The group shares expertise and research infrastructures with other EMBL research groups in Hamburg.

The Staff Scientist will lead and contribute to research projects of the Wilmanns group, specifically in the areas of protein expression (including eukaryotic hosts), purification, biochemical and biophysical characterisation, as well as structural biology approaches. They will also contribute to grant applications, support of active grants, presentations of group activities at external meetings and training of young researchers in relevant methods and technologies.

The Staff Scientist will also lead the molecular biology laboratory at S1/S2 safety standard that is shared with other research groups and in close cooperation with the Sample Preparation and Characterization (SPC) facility at the EMBL Hamburg Unit. In this task, the candidate will be supported by technical staff.

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Hamburg, Germany

Staff Scientist Position – Structural and functional studies of protein complexes