<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="line-height: 13.800000190734863px;"><b class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 16.100000381469727px; color: windowtext; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Hi,</font></span></b></p><div class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Thanks everyone for sharing how you handle and support the COVID-19 situation.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">A bit unrelated to that topic, we are having a postdoc position opening in infectious and aggregation diseases.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">If this speaks to YOU, please see below:</font></div><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="line-height: 13.800000190734863px;"><b class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 16.100000381469727px; color: windowtext; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Job Post - PostDoc position for the project ‘Structural and mechanistic studies of functional protein fibrils using correlative electron and light microscopy’<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="line-height: 13.800000190734863px;"><font face="Arial" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">The position commences as soon as possible and is a fixed-term contract for a period of 2 years.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">This is a joint collaborative project between Israel and the University of Hamburg on the mechanisms governing virulence and antibacterial properties of protein fibrils in infectious and aggregation diseases. <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Arial" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The research methods include single particle cryoEM reconstruction, correlative light and electron microscopy, artificial membrane systems (supported lipid bilayers, liposomes), and live cell microscopy to study toxicity mechanisms of fibrils on bacteria and mammalian cells and within microbial biofilms. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(59, 81, 91);"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Project leaders are Associate Prof. Meytal Landau, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Kay Grünewald, Heinrich-Pette-Institute, Leibniz Institute of Experimental Virology and Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften (MIN) and Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), DESY, Hamburg; Dr. Carolin Seuring, Head of the CryoEM Multi-User Facility, CSSB; Dr. Roland Thünauer, Head of the Advanced Light and Fluorescence Microscopy Facility (ALFM), CSSB.<b class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">The research will be conducted at the CSSB on the Bahrenfeld Research Campus, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, with occasional visits to Israel. CSSB harbors state-of-the-art multi-user facilities for protein production and characterization, high-throughput crystallization, advanced light microscopy and electron cryo-microscopy.</font></span></p><p class="Default" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="color: rgb(59, 81, 91); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Requirements</font></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 6pt;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -10.35pt; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">PhD in the field of structural biology, biophysics, or related fields</font></span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="text-indent: -21.8pt; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Fluent in English (both written and oral)</font></span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="text-indent: -21.8pt; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Experience in protein science and structural biology</font></span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="text-indent: -14.15pt; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Desirable experience in cryo-EM and/or light microscopy</font></span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="text-indent: -21.8pt; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">The ability to work independently and as part of a team</font></span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="text-indent: -21.8pt; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">A high level of motivation</font></span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="text-indent: -14.15pt; font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Self-driven and organized</font></span></li></ul><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="">For applications (by 1/4/2020) and further information, please contact </span><span lang="EN-US" class="">Prof. Meytal Landau (</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="mailto:mlandau@technion.ac.il" class="">mlandau@technion.ac.il</a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">) and Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Kay Grünewald (</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="mailto:kay.gruenewald@cssb-hamburg.de" class="">kay.gruenewald@cssb-hamburg.de</a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="">).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">For further information on the Multi-User CryoEM and ALFM -facilities, please visit our </span><span class="" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.cssb-hamburg.de/facilities/index_eng.html" class="">https://www.cssb-hamburg.de/facilities/index_eng.html</a> or contact Roland Thünauer or me directly.</span></font></span></p><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Cheers,</font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Carolin</font></span></div></body></html>