South Parks Road, Oxford

Grade 7: £29,837 – £36,661 p.a

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work under the supervision of Professor Luet Wong on a research project funded by a BBSRC Follow-on-Fund grant for a period of 12 months. The project involves engineering and directed evolution of cytochrome P450 BM-3 and high-throughput screening to enhance the selectivity of remote C–H bond oxidation of carboxylic acid compounds to industrially relevant levels for lactone synthesis. scholarship daily news in www.rightman.ir

Find out more about the Wong research group at: http://research.chem.ox.ac.uk/luet-wong.aspx

Applicants should either already have a PhD in Chemical Biology/Chemistry/Biochemistry or a relevant subject area, or have submitted your thesis prior to taking up the post. You should be able to carry out site-directed and random mutagenesis, enzymatic reactions in vivo and in vitro and analyse the products by GC, HPLC, etc. or be willing to learn new techniques in basic microbiology, molecular biology, enzymology, biocatalysis, and analytical chemistry. scholarship daily news in www.rightman.ir

The post will be based in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR

The post is available from June 2014, or as soon as possible thereafter. scholarship daily news in www.rightman.ir

You will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application. scholarship daily news in www.rightman.ir

The closing date for applications is 12.00 midday on Monday 26 May 2014. scholarship daily news in www.rightman.ir

Interviews will be held as soon as possible thereafter

The Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford is an Athena Swan bronze award holder. Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and ethnic minority candidates, who are under-represented in Chemistry research posts in Oxford. scholarship daily news in www.rightman.ir

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