See the Website listed below for details. There is also a project that uses Dictyostelium to examine the mechanism of pathogenesis of Legionella pneumoniae, the agent of Legionaire's disease. This project is being carried out in conjunction with the laboratory of Dr. Howard Shuman, who is in The Department of Microbiology at Columbia. The laboratory is part of a major research center and is in a well equipped department. Experience in molecular biology and biochemistry is important.
Salary is commensurate with experience.
The university provides assistance with visas and housing. Mapping the functional surface of domain 2 in the gelsolin superfamily. 80336 Muenchen, Germany. The crystal structure of the F-actin binding domain 2 of severin, the gelsolin homologue from Dictyostelium discoideum, has been determined by multiple isomorphous replacement and refined to 1.75 A resolution. Comparison of the structures of several gelsolin family domains has identified residues that may mediate F-actin binding in gelsolin domain 2 homologues.