Radial Postdoctoral Fellow – Dynamic Structural Biology (diffUSE Project)

Job description

Radial Postdoctoral Fellow – Dynamic Structural Biology (diffUSE Project) Salary: $70K: Location: Ithaca, NY (Cornell University) with travel to partner sites Position Summary: The diffUSE Project is seeking a highly motivated structural biologist to push the boundaries of X-ray crystallography for studying protein dynamics. Work will be done within the Ando lab. The Ando lab is known for developing and integrating advanced structural techniques (crystallography, SAXS, and cryo-EM) and bioinformatics to visualize protein motions underlying enzyme catalysis and allostery. The postdoctoral fellow would contribute to the Diffuse Project, a multi-institution initiative around mainstreaming diffuse scattering techniques, which use the hidden data from X-ray crystallography experiments to extract information on protein motion. The project is an open-science collaboration that brings together expertise across disciplines in a goal-driven, team-oriented environment. The successful candidate will drive the application of diffuse scattering to biological questions by growing protein crystals, collecting synchrotron data, and applying computational tools developed within the collaboration. Ap...