Under the Portuguese government initiative Ciência 2007, the
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB) and the
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET) wish to
appoint up to 18 research scientists to conduct and support
research associated with National Facilities and to develop
strategic areas of research. Contracts will be held for five years
subjected to yearly renewals.

Candidate profile: The candidates must hold a PhD, at least three
years of scientific post-doctoral experience and a proven track
record of publications.

Strengthening National Facilities: NMR Spectroscopy; Resonance
Raman; Mass Spectrometry; Proteomics; X-ray structure of small and
large molecules; GLP Laboratory; Pilot Plant

New Research Areas: Ionic Liquids for Chemical and Biological
Processes; Membrane Proteins and Super Complexes; Computational
Biology (Computational Genomics, Systems Biology); Animal Cell
Technology; Functional analysis of transcription regulators in
plants; Single-particle and single molecule analysis in biological
systems; Chemistry of organic and inorganic biologically important
compounds; Cell signaling in eukaryotes; Host- bacterial pathogen
interactions.

Suitable qualified candidates from other areas in Chemistry, Life
Sciences and associated technologies will also be considered.


The closing date for applications is the 15 th August 2007.


Details for application and more information available at

www.itqb.unl.pt/ciencia2007

Location: San Diego, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.
Date: September 18-20, 2007
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Location: Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland
Date: August 27-31, 2007
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Location: Milan, Italy
Date: October 16-19, 2007
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