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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Postdoctoral position - Membrane protein Biochemist <span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">We are looking for a protein biochemist to join our team. We are investigating the structure and function of ion channels, membrane proteins that generate electrical signals in excitable cells. They are targets for disease mutations linked to cardiac arrhythmia, epilepsy, myopathies, and much more. We combine high-resolution techniques (X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM) with functional methods (calorimetry, electrophysiology) to obtain a complete understanding of their function.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Our institute is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for structural biology, including a new Titan Krios microscope with FalconIII detector and Volta phase plate, Vitrobots and screening microscopes (Tecnai Spirit and F20), 2 Rigaku 007 instruments for X-ray diffraction, and various robotics for setting up and visualizing crystallization screens.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Your profile:<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text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<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Filip Van Petegem, PhD</div><div>Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology<br>The University of British Columbia<br>2350 Health Sciences Mall - Rm 2.356<br>Vancouver, V6T 1Z3<br><br>phone: +1 604 827 4267<br>email: <a href="mailto:filip.vanpetegem@gmail.com" target="_blank">filip.vanpetegem@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://crg.ubc.ca/VanPetegem/" target="_blank">http://crg.ubc.ca/VanPetegem/</a></div></div></div>
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