Post Doctoral Research Associate

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Posting Details

The University of Georgia is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, or veteran status or other protected status.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Design of new recombinant DNA constructs within the Moremen lab, generation of recombinant expression constructs, verification by DNA sequencing, and protein expression of a collection of glycosylation enzymes for biochemical and structural characterization.
• Establishing and optimizing strategies and protocols for protein purification and troubleshooting the isolation of numerous recombinant products including processing in preparation for enzymatic and structural studies.
• Detailed enzymatic characterization of recombinant glycosylation enzymes including isolation of wild type and mutant enzyme forms and full characterization of kinetic parameters with multiple enzyme substrates.
• Organize projects in consultation with researchers at remote sites for collaborative projects including preparation of samples, data and reports for these collaborations.
• Training and supervision of Research Professionals, Research Technicians, and undergraduate researchers in their duties on generation of recombinant constructs, protein purification, and characterization.
• Interaction with structural biology groups for preparation of samples for enzymatic glycan synthesis, NMR analysis, and crystallization.

Position Details

A PhD in biochemistry or molecular biology is expected as well as experience in molecular biology, biochemistry, computational biology, protein expression, purification, and general laboratory methods are required.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities And/or Competencies

The job requires detailed capabilities to carry out molecular biology and biochemistry protocols, run all aspects of the protein expression platform, and coordinating and supervising numerous concurrent projects from initiation to completion.

Physical Demands

Normal lab activity.

EOO Statement

The University of Georgia is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, or veteran status or other protected status.