Postdoctoral Fellow: Protein Engineering & Biocatalysis

Indiana University Academic Positions; Bloomington (IN); On-site; USD 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

The Lewis Lab in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to develop cutting-edge protein engineering techniques for new chemical transformations.

You will combine organic chemistry with state-of-the-art methods in directed evolution, sequencing, and laboratory automation to create novel B12-dependent enzymes and metalloenzymes with diverse cofactors.

Qualifications

• PhD in chemistry or biochemistry required.
• Experience with molecular biology or synthetic chemistry is strongly preferred.
• Strong documentation and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Cloning and other molecular biology tasks for enzyme production and engineering.
• Synthesis of substrates and product standards.
• High-throughput screening of enzyme libraries.
• Application of computational protein design tools and data analysis.

Skills

Molecular biology

Synthetic chemistry

Protein engineering

Computational design tools

Education

PhD in chemistry or biochemistry

Job description

The Lewis Lab in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position to develop cutting-edge protein engineering techniques for new chemical transformations.

You will combine organic chemistry with state-of-the-art methods in directed evolution, sequencing, and laboratory automation to create novel B12-dependent enzymes and metalloenzymes with diverse cofactors.