Our laboratory is well equipped with rotating anode generators including an area detector system equipped for low temperature crystal cooling. Computing and molecular graphics facilities are excellent. The macromolecular crystallography group of the Biology and Biotechnology Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has an immediate opening for a Biomedical Scientist at the BS or MS level in the field of macromolecular crystallography, with emphasis on crystallization and molecular biology. Rank and Salary are open. This is a 2 year term position, extension possible.
External collaborations are welcome.
The individual will participate in the crystallization of biological macromolecules and the operation of a macromolecular X-ray crystallography laboratory. Experience in the biochemistry of proteins and crystallogenesis of biological macromolecules is essential. The machines include a MasPar, a sixteen processor SGI Power Challenge and a AXP workstation farm coupled by a Gigaswitch. A scientific programming background with experience in developing or porting code to parallel architectures using shared memory or message passing is essential. The successful candidate will act as an advisor to users who are attempting to port molecular biology codes to parallel machines and will organize short training courses in parallelization.