<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">Dear Colleagues, </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">Two positions are available at my group at the University of Groningen (UG), Netherlands:</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(i)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>PhD fellowship position: founded for 4 years as a tax-free stipend.</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(ii)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Postdoctoral position: funded for 3 years, with the possibility of extension to become the EM facility manager (</b><b class="">permanent position)</b><b class="">.</b></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">My group is seeking highly motivated communicative applicants with a strong interest in single-particle cryo-EM to work on elucidating the structure-function relationships that explain the transport mechanism of membrane proteins. </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">You will have access to a full equipped state-of-the-art EM lab, with a <b class="">newly installed FEI Talos Arctica TEM equipped with a K2-summit camera, an energy filter and a phase plate on a full service contract. </b>Smaller microscopes for screening and a sample processing facility (including a Vitrobot) are available. For image processing you will have access to a powerful dedicated EM lab cluster and if necessary, access to the university cluster peregrine with more than 4000 cores. Notably, members of my group will be the main users of the cryo-EM facility, giving the candidate an <b class="">exceptional high amount of access time at the microscope</b>. As a Dutch group, members of my lab have a privileged access to the EM facility NeCEN in Leiden with two FEI Titan Krios TEMs, if required (<a href="https://www.necen.nl" class="">https://www.necen.nl</a>).</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">The Paulino group is integrated in the Membrane Enzymology Group (<a href="http://www.membraneenzymology.com" class="">http://www.membraneenzymology.com</a>) within the Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB), and has full access to all facilities and instruments for protein expression, purification and biochemical analysis. Here you will have the opportunity to explore your research project in a scientific environment with world-leading groups in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology and benefit from a strong institutional commitment to advance cryo-EM at UG. </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">The PhD candidate should have a background in protein biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology or related areas. Experience in working with membrane proteins or in cryo-EM is preferable but not required. </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">The PostDoc candidate should have an extensive experience in sample preparation, operation of transmission electron microscopes (preferably on a FEI Polara, Titan Krios or Talos Arctica), and image processing.</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">The internationally oriented university is located in the vibrant and charming city of Groningen in the north of Netherlands. The university is continuously ranked among the top 100 in the world with two Nobel prize winners. Among other benefits, foreigners can profit from a 30% tax reduction for 8 years. </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">Please send your CV, a short research experience/motivation letter and contact information for two or three letters of reference to <a href="mailto:c.paulino@rug.nl" class="" style="color: rgb(4, 51, 255);">c.paulino@rug.nl</a>.</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">Earliest staring date is the 1st of August 2017. </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Best regards, </span><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Cristina<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font color="#009193" class="">________________________________________<br class=""></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 3px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: x-small;" class="">Ass. Prof. Cristina Paulino</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="1" class="">Department of Biochemistry and Electron Microscopy <br class="">Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute<br class="">& Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials<br class="">University of Groningen<br class="">Nijenborgh 4<br class="">9747 AG Groningen<br class="">The Netherlands<br class=""> <br class="">Email: <a href="mailto:c.paulino@rug.nl" class="">c.paulino@rug.nl</a> <br class=""><a href="http://www.membraneenzymology.com" class="">http://www.membraneenzymology.com</a></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font color="#009193" class="">________________________________________</font><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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