Positions Available

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN HCV-HOST PROTEIN INTERACTIONS AND REPLICATION MECHANISMS

New Jersey Medical School
Dept: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Function: Under the direction of the Principal Investigator, Neerja Kaushik-Basu, the candidate will investigate HCV REPLICATION AND INHIBITION MECHANISMS WITH REFERENCE TO ITS REPLICASE.

Qualifications:

Ph.D. in Biochemistry or Molecular Virology and experience in the following areas:

1. Protein Interaction and Purification studies: Over-expression using bacterial systems and mammalian expression systems, SDS-PAGE, Western blotting, chromatographic separation using FPLC and HPLC, Co-imunoprecipitation assays
2. Biochemical and Mechanistic Characterization of Proteins- involving primer extension assays, TCA precipitation, Inhibition studies, gel shift assays.
3. Molecular biology- DNA isolation, expression vector design and construction, PCR, site-directed mutagenesis, chromosomal gene deletion and insertion, yeast two-hybrid analysis, reporter gene analysis.
4. Cell Culture techniques, RT-PCR, Immunofluorescense.

For further information please contact Dr. Kaushik-Basu at kaushik@umdnj.edu

5/12/08