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Research Assistant, Biological Sciences

Employer
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Location
Singapore
Closing date
9 Jun 2021

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Job Description

The successful candidate will work with A/P Henry Mok Yu Keung on structural and functional characterization of proteins under a project on “Barriers and Busters that determine viral infection in mosquitoes”.

The main responsibilities of the position include:

  1. To determine the structural mechanisms of proteins in biological and physical barriers in mosquitoes and the mechanisms by which arboviruses penetrate these barriers to achieve infection.

Qualifications

  • Qualifications / Discipline: BSc. holder or fresh BSc. graduate in Life Sciences with research experience in protein cloning, expression and purification.
  • Skills:
    1. Sub-cloning, expression and purification of recombinant proteins;
    2. Determination of protein structures by X-ray crystallography and NMR;
    3. Characterization of protein interaction and function using biophysical techniques.
  • Experience:
    1. Protein construct cloning in bacterial vector;
    2. Protein expression and purification;
    3. Setup of protein crystallization screen.

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