Postdoctoral Associate, Keating Lab

Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate in the Keating Lab to lead experimental peptide design, synthesis and early testing, collaborating closely with a PI and a computational Research Scientist. You will drive synthesis and testing campaigns and report findings through presentations, publications and patents.

The Keating Lab connects wet and dry lab work, bringing together computational biologists and experimentalists to advance

Responsibilities

• Drive synthesis and testing of designed peptides.
• Evaluate early hits with independently developed assays.
• Report findings through presentations, publications and patents.

Skills

Peptide design

Synthesis

Biological assays

Presentations

Publications

Patents

Collaboration

Computational biology

Machine learning

Job description

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, KEATING LAB, Biology, to join a small, collaborative peptide design team working at the interface of computation and experiment. Working closely with the Principal Investigator and a computational Research Scientist, the Postdoctoral Associate will serve as the experimental lead on a peptide design campaign that will involve driving the synthesis and testing of designed peptides, evaluating early hits with assays developed and run independently, and reporting findings to colleagues and collaborators through presentations, publications, and patents. Results and ideas generated in this role will feed directly into peptide optimization and help refine the design methodology. The Keating Lab is a collaborative and stimulating research environment with strong connections between wet and dry lab, bringing together computational biologists building new methods at the interface of structural biology and machine learning and experimentalists studying how proteins recognize their binding partners across a wide range of biological systems.

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