Dear colleagues, please be advised that this call is still open and will remain so until the third week of September. Please make suitable candidates aware of this excellent opportunity! Thanks, Marc Lensink ----- Forwarded message ----- Subject: post-doctoral candidate wanted dear Friends and Colleagues, I would appreciate if you could make suitable candidates aware of the following call. We are looking for an excellence-level post-doctoral candidate with at least 18 months of post-doctoral experience coming October. many thanks in advance! Marc CALL FOR POST-DOCTORAL CANDIDATE We are looking for a post-doctoral candidate to work on a computational project in cancer research. The successful candidate will participate in a regional grant proposal of which the deadline is October 22nd, 2013. The targeted starting date is March/April 2014, at which date the candidate must be no older than 35 years and have at least two years of post-doctoral experience, preferably outside of France. Scientific excellence is sought and the successful candidate will be offered a 18- or 24-month contract with a highly competitive salary. The project evolves around the Ets-1 oncoprotein, a transciption factor that regulates many genes involved in cancer progression and tumor invastion. We identified and purified novel interaction partners, including two DNA repair enzymes. Our work highlights that the interaction between Ets-1 and both DNA repair enzymes is important for the cancer cell. The three-dimensional structures of the interacting partner domains are known and we aim at using protein docking and molecular modeling to sketch a molecular picture in order to increase our understanding of these important biological interactions and design mutagenesis experiments. If granted, the candidate will join my team of Computational and Theoretical Molecular Biology at the French CNRS Interdisciplinary Research Institute in the Lille area (north of France), and work in close collaboration with the experimental team of Marc Aumercier. Lille is a vibrant and dynamic region, with 35% of the population under 25, and the heart of the Eurometropole Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai, counting close to 2 million inhabitants. It features high-speed train connections to Brussels, Paris and London. The call will remain open until end of August, 2013, or when a suitable candidate has been identified. Informal questions may be directed to dr. Marc Aumercier (marc.aumercier@iri.univ-lille1.fr), or dr. Marc Lensink (marc.lensink@iri.univ-lille1.fr). ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Marc F. Lensink, CR1, PhD Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) - USR3078 CNRS Computational Biology marc.lensink@iri.univ-lille1.fr Parc de la Haute Borne, 50 Avenue de Halley, BP 70478 F-59658 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France tel: +33 3 62 53 17 28 fax: +33 3 62 53 17 01