Position Available

A Postdoctoral position is available immediately in the Barbar lab in the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics for conducting NIH funded studies focused on the macromolecular assembly, structure and function of the motor protein dynein and the role of protein disorder in regulation of diverse assembly processes in vivo and in vitro. We are seeking a highly motivated candidate with a strong background in molecular biology, protein expression, and/or structural biology (NMR or crystallography). Cell biology experience and experience in mass spectrometry is desirable. Please send CV and three references to Dr. Barbar .

Current Lab News

• September 14, 2009 -- 5 year NIH R01 grant awarded!
  
• June 12, 2009 -- Congratulations to Justin Hall for being awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association with a stellar 0.6th percentile ranking!!
  
• May 28, 2009 -- Andrea Hall's paper "Redox Dependent Dynamics of a Dual Thioredoxin-Fold Protein: Evolution of Specialized Folds." is in press in Biochemistry.
  
• March 23, 2009 -- Grad students Andrea and Justin are in the Gazette-Times.
  
• March 18, 2009 -- Postdoc Greg Benison has published a Methods in Enzymology paper: "NMR analysis of dynein light chain dimerization and interactions with diverse ligands".
  
• March 13, 2009 -- Grad student Justin Hall has won the Nellie Buck Yerex Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship is given to outstanding graduate students who are pursuing study in a scientific or technological field.
  
• March 13, 2009 -- Grad student Andrea Hall has won the Bayley Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded on the basis of academic performance and promise for the future.
  
• January 25, 2009 -- Undergraduate researcher Christine Schneider has won the Janet Richens Wiesner University Honors College Scholarship for Women in Science. -- Press Release (pdf)
  
• December 2008 Newsletter (pdf)