<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Stony Brook University/BNL has a Postdoc opening  to work on <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">the structural mechanisms of plant stress
signaling controlled by a family of conserved
cysteine proteases called metacaspase (MC).<span>  </span>Structural, molecular and genetic approaches will be
deployed to dissect the mechanistic basis of MC functions for two
prototypical members Arabidopsis AtMC4 and AtMC9, each with
distinct signaling pathways and regulatory properties.<span> </span>The results obtained are expected to identify
novel strategies to improve plant stress tolerance through engineering of
constructs or chemical modulators that can predictably modify these signaling
pathways. <br></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Applicants should have a recent PhD in biochemistry, biophysics,
molecular biology, plant biology or a closely related field, preferably with
experience (but not required) in X-ray crystallography or single-particle
cryo-EM. Ability to carry out protein expression and purification work is
essential and an interactive personality is highly desirable.</span><span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">  </span><br></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Please apply online following the link below if you are interested. </span></span></span>



</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> <br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__stonybrooku.taleo.net_careersection_2_jobdetail.ftl-3Fjob-3D2102864&d=DwMFaQ&c=-35OiAkTchMrZOngvJPOeA&r=L7-zyQ-04fFCMRqzLIOnx7H0exGZHwIQe_wMPuY600I&m=mMt64O30r71sIQiJLh3MqjwHW2sq5B30d4OtqhDjKvU&s=i6f1rlCTGGYWhnoVC6ZSbN9e9l1LtfqDuSdKW0-HGPA&e=">https://stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=2102864</a> <br><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks for your attention!<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Regards,</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Qun Liu PhD<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Biology Department/NSLS-II</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Brookhaven National Laboratory</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:qunliu@bnl.gov">qunliu@bnl.gov</a></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div>