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        colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        reminder that the Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck
        College London, is seeking a committed and creative electron
        microscopist to be our Electron Microscopy <span
          style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Laboratory Manager. </span>
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        <o:p></o:p></span><span
        style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
        mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Candidates
        should have extensive experience in transmission electron
        microscopy, ideally cryo-electron microscopy, and good
        familiarity with the recent advances in electron microscopy. </span><span
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          style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">We also welcome applicants
          from engineering or materials science backgrounds with
          motivation to learn structural biology methods.<br>
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        mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span><span
        style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
        mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The Laboratory Manager will be
        jointly responsible for efficient operation of our EM facility
        as a whole, including microscopes, user training and support,
        together with our in-post high resolution EM Facility Manager.
        Excellent communication skills and teamwork are essential.</span><span
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font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span> </p>
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        style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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        style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
        mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">The
        Birkbeck EM lab is located in an outstanding, collaborative
        environment for structural, molecular and cellular biology, in
        the Crystallography section of the Department of Biological
        Sciences, which forms part of the joint Institute for Structural
        and Molecular Biology with University College London. The EM lab
        is equipped with a 300 kV Polara microscope and a 200 kV FEG
        system with K2 and DE20 direct electron detectors, 120 kV, 100
        kV cryo microscopes, and new funding for a latest generation
        cryo microscope. We also have sample preparation equipment for
        single particles, high pressure freezing, vitrified sections and
        freeze substitution. <o:p></o:p></span> <span
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          href="http://people.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/%7Eubcg16z/empage.html">http://people.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/~ubcg16z/empage.html</a><br>
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          11pt;" lang="EN-US">For details and application forms, please
          see:<br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
        "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Best wishes, 
Carolyn Moores, Helen Saibil, Elena Orlova, and Gabriel Waksman<o:p></o:p></span>
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