Research Associate--Northeast Collaborative Access Team (NE-CAT), Cornell University (Argonne, IL)

Research Associate--Northeast Collaborative Access Team (NE-CAT), Cornell University (Argonne, IL)

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The primary duties of the staff scientist are to assist in technological research and development and to provide user training and support at the NE-CAT Center for Advanced Macromolecular Crystallography for structural biology at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.

      

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Provide user training and support; both onsite and via remote conferencing. This involves work nights and weekends, approximately nine months of the year, when the APS has run cycles and is open for data acquisition. During these months, the staff scientist will rotate assignments with other staff members to provide support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  • Test, modify or develop crystallographic software.
  • Test and debug new beamline software and hardware. Evaluate beamline performance to produce optimum data. Contribute to the development of beamline troubleshooting procedures.
  • Use knowledge of synchrotron beamline optics and experiment-specific topics to develop data collection and structure determinationprocedures.
  • Take part in development of real time data analysis software for the beamline data acquisition software RAPD.
  • Collect data on macromolecular crystals for phase determination, model building and refinement.
  • Participate in cooperative research in which the staff scientist's expertise is combined with that of members of the NE-CAT consortium institutions or general users to improve the processes of protein purification, crystallization, and determination of macromolecular structures.
  • Publish results and help prepare presentations and documentation to disseminate information about advances to the macromolecular crystallography community.

Related Duties:

  • Provide support of sample automounter development
  • Provide advice and consultation to users and technical support staff.
  • Assist in preparation of research grant proposals and annual reports.
  • Attend and participate in seminars and scientific meetings
  • Recommend equipment and supplies necessary to further research associated with the mission of the facility.
  • Help supervise technicians who will develop user safety procedures, calibration procedures, data collection procedures, and both on-line and standard documentation.
  • Any other beamline/facility related duties assigned by the supervisors.

Supervision Received:

Immediate supervisor is Frank Murphy, NE-CAT Associate Director. Direction also received from the NE-CAT Director, Steven E. Ealick; NE-CAT Deputy Director, Malcolm Capel.


Supervision Exercised:

Functional and administrative supervision may be exercised over beamline technicians and beamline users, including visiting faculty, post-docs, graduate students and undergraduate students.


Qualifications:

  • Doctorate in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physics, Biophysics, or a related field.
  • At least three years doctoral or post-doctoral experience involving macromolecular crystallography.
  • An extensive record of publications of research in the scientific literature.
  • Experience with synchrotron X-ray data collection and experience with operating synchrotron beamlines is a plus.

For more information about NE-CAT, please see our website:  https://necat.chem.cornell.edu


This is a 12-month benefits eligible full-time (100%FTE) appointment term which is renewable depending on funding and performance.


Salary:  commensurate with experience


Start:  August 1, 2022


Interested candidates should submit the following to: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22038

  • Cover letter
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Contact information of three references
  • Copies of relevant publications

Applications will be reviewed as they are received and will be accepted until the position is filled.  Please direct questions to Frank Murphy, NE-CAT Associate Director (fmurphy@anl.gov). 

  


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