<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 24px; ">A
postdoc position is currently available in my laboratory of at
the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).</span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#313131">Our
research program is aimed at understanding the precise molecular mechanism of
how retroviral proteins interact with cellular factors during the virus
replication cycle. We use a set of biochemical, biophysical and structural
biology (mainly NMR and occasionally X-ray) tools to characterize key
protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions critical for virus infectivity
and replication.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#313131">Research
resources and Instrumentation:
Our lab is equipped with research resources to
conduct a wide range of experiments in biochemistry, molecular and structural
biology. We also have an unrestricted access to Bruker Avance II 700 MHz
instrument equipped with a cryoprobe. Recent funding from the NIH has been
obtained to acquire a new 800 MHz NMR, which will be installed by the end of
the year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
18.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#313131">UAB:
Ranked among the top 15 percent of U.S. colleges and universities by The
Princeton Review. It attracts over $400 million annually in external research
funding and ranks consistently in the top 25 nationally in funding from the
National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Named among the Top 5 Best Places to Work
in Academia by The Scientist in 2008
Among 96 public and private universities
(and the only Alabama university) classified as an institution of “very high
research activity” by the Carnegie Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#313131">Candidates are expected to have
good communication skills and must hold a Ph.D. degree in any of the following:
Biochemistry, Chemistry, or Biology. If you are interested, please submit a CV
along with the names of 3 references by email to Dr. Jamil Saad (</span><a href="mailto:saad@uab.edu"><span style="font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana;color:#08495A">saad@uab.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana;color:#313131">).</span></p><div><br></div></div><div>
**************************************************************<br>Jamil S. Saad, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Microbiology, BBRB 366/15<br>University of Alabama at Birmingham<br>845 19th Street South<br>Birmingham, AL 35294-2170<br><br>Tel: (205) 996-9282<br>Lab: (205) 996-9283<br>FAX: (205) 996-4008<br>Email: <a href="mailto:saad@uab.edu">saad@uab.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.microbio.uab.edu/faculty/saad/index.html">http://www.microbio.uab.edu/faculty/saad/index.html</a><br>http://structuralbiology.uabwebsites.org/content.asp?formID=3173&id=376058<br>*************************************************************<br><br><br>
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