From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Jan 08 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!199.60.229.5!newsfeed.direct.ca!Supernews60!supernews.com!nntp.flash.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.carno.net.au!torda From: Andrew.Torda@anu.edu.au Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.proteins,bionet.biophysics,bionet.xtallography Subject: Post-doc in computational chemistry, Canberra, Australia with Andrew Torda Date: 9 Jan 1998 06:00:32 GMT Organization: Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University Lines: 69 Sender: Andrew.Torda@anu.edu.au Message-ID: <694ee0$df5$1@clarion.carno.net.au> Reply-To: Andrew.Torda@anu.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.35.129 Originator: torda@rsc.anu.edu.au Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.proteins:12093 bionet.biophysics:3888 bionet.xtallography:3972 POST DOCTORAL POSITION Computational Chemistry in The Research School of Chemistry, Canberra, Australia with Andrew Torda Available immediately. The research group of Andrew Torda is oriented towards biomolecular calculation and simulation. We are working in areas such as low-resolution (protein fold recognition) force fields, refinement of experimental structures using MD simulation, mixing knowledge-based force fields with experimental data and combinatorial algorithms for protein sequence optimisation. All the projects in the group involve coding and development - not just applications. It would be an advantage to have a reasonable knowledge of data structures and algorithms and programming experience in a civilized language (not fortran). Possible projects would be centred around some new algorithms for aligning amino acid sequences to structures, based on the force fields we have developed. These might include some entertaining ideas such as quasi-Newtonian dynamics in amusing spaces. Projects are negotiable. Salary: more than $40,963 - $43,834 per annum (the rates just increased a week ago). Grants are provided towards travel and removal. Positions are initially for two years with a possible extension to a third year. There is a housing office to help find accommodation. The Research School of Chemistry is part of the Institute of Advanced Studies which runs special research schools in parallel to the normal teaching schools. There are no undergraduate teaching duties. The university is in the centre of Canberra (the nation's capital). Given the research orientation of the school, there is a lively academic environment. We have close contacts with the school's other theoretical groups in statistical mechanics, polymer theory, quantum chemistry and chemical physics. From the point of view of experimental groups, we maintain close ties to the school's NMR, X-ray crystallography and molecular biology groups. Anyone interested in the Torda group should look at http://www.rsc.anu.edu.au/~torda That also contains a pointer to a page of recent publications. Anyone interested should contact me directly (Andrew.Torda@anu.edu.au). The closing date for applications will be March 3 1998. The administrative procedure is that, if you are interested, you are sent an official application (by slow mail). Applicants then have to fill this out and mail it back (again by slow mail). The official forms will include a request for comments from three referees. There is an old advertisement from a previous school-wide job offer at http://www.rsc.anu.edu.au/RSC/AcademicPositions/RSC_Academic_Positions.html and read under "Postdoctoral Fellowships". Andrew Torda .