<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><b><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:22px;font-variant-ligatures:no-contextual">NIH-Funded Post-Doctoral</span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:22px;font-variant-ligatures:no-contextual"> </span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:22px;font-variant-ligatures:no-contextual">Position</span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:22px;font-variant-ligatures:no-contextual"> in Structural Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to Study the Structure and Function of the Ribosome</span></b><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><b><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:22px;font-variant-ligatures:no-contextual"><br></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><div><img src="cid:ii_jti04yoo0" alt="Movie_S3_70S-mtRNA_320x240.gif" width="320" height="240" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify;color:black"><span class="gmail-il">The Polikanov</span> <span class="gmail-il">Laboratory</span> </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify">at the University of Illinois at Chicago (IL, USA) </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify;color:black">is looking for a talented, skillful, and highly motivated researcher to fill the available <b>NIH-funded Post-Doctoral Scholar </b>position </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify">t</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify;color:black">o study the structure and function of the bacterial ribosome</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify">.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify">The research in the <span class="gmail-il">Polikanov</span> <span class="gmail-il">Laboratory</span> is focused on understanding the basic principles of protein synthesis in bacteria, the modes of action of ribosome-targeting antibiotics, and the mechanisms of drug resistance at a structural level. More information about Dr. <span class="gmail-il">Polikanov</span> research can be obtained from the most recent publications (</span><u style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/yury.polikanov.1/bibliography/50395623/public/?sort=date&amp;direction=descending" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/yury.<span class="gmail-il">polikanov</span>.1/bibliography/50395623/public/?sort=date&amp;direction=descending</a></span></u><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify">) or found on the web-page (</span><a href="https://bios.uic.edu/bios/people/faculty/yury-polikanov" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify">https://bios.uic.edu/bios/people/faculty/yury-<span class="gmail-il">polikanov</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;text-align:justify">). The successful candidate will be involved in the determination of high-resolution structures of ribosome functional complexes with various protein translation factors, tRNAs, and antibiotics using macromolecular X-ray crystallography and potentially cryo-EM techniques.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">Basic qualifications:</b> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">PhD in chemistry, biochemistry<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">biophysics, </div>or a related field;</font></li><li style="m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