Dear CCP4 community
please, note these PhD opportunities at the University of Newcastle and Durham University in the joint Centre for Doctoral Training “Molecular Sciences for Medicine”. We offer a highly interdisciplinary training program with a number of projects focused on
structural biology. General information on the program can be found here:
structural biology. General information on the program can be found here:
with a list of 15 PhD positions here:
Projects with particular emphasis on structural biology include:
Neural networks for modelling protein conformational space: Application to inhibitor design exploiting an enzyme’s mobile regulatory element 0 led by Dr. Daniel Cole (Newcastle)
A novel drug discovery workflow combining DNA-encoded library, AI machine learning, and cryo-electron microscopy – led by Prof. Wyatt Yue (Newcastle)
Natural Products, Synthetic Biology and the Formulation of Novel Antimicrobials – led by Prof. Paul Denny (Durham)
New methods for scaled synthesis of nucleoside 5’-triphosphates and their application in gene synthesis – led by Dr. David Hodgson (Durham).
The posts are open to applicants worldwide. I am happy to answer any (informal) questions.
Ehmke