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Job post: short-term contract Duration: 6 months Starting date: at the earliest convenience (from April 2, 2018) City: Strasbourg (France) Laboratoire: Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Fonctions Moléculaires Adresse: Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Fonctions Moléculaires UMR7177 -- 4, rue Blaise Pascal F - 67000 Strasbourg Salary: equivalent to a PhD scholarship with possible variations based on experience Contact: Cecchini, Marco Email: [log in to unmask] Url:http://institut-chimie.unistra.fr/equipes-de-recherche/ifm-laboratoire-dingenierie-des-fonctions-moleculaires/ Validity: from 02/04/2018 Description: The ChemFlow platform of the Univestité de Strasbourg opens a 6-month position in Chemoinformatics. ChemFlow is a modular computational chemistry platform for high-throughput screening of chemical libraries for drug discovery. The software is supposed to bridge the gap between chemical structures and ligand binding affinities by an effective rescoring based on simplified free energy which include configurational sampling by Molecular Dynamics. The platform is being developed by the Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Fonctions Moléculaires at Unistra, a multidisciplinary team composed of 4 graduate students and 2 research professionals working on Chemoinformatics. The successful applicant will support the development and testing of the ChemoFlow platform and related research projects, which focus on the discovery of drug candidates for cancer and muscle pathologies. The latter are done in collaboration with a group of crystallographer at Institut Curie and Cytokinetics Inc (https://cytokinetics.com/). The successful candidate will report to the Lab head Dr. Marco Cecchini and Dr. Diego Gomes, manager and conceiver of the platform. Summary of Key Responsibilities: ● Maintain, benchmark and troubleshoot the platform's analytical pipelines and its infrastructure (linux servers and workstations). ● Provide assistance to day-by-day data analysis. ● Engage in creation of custom analysis tools. ● Perform chemoinformatics analysis on simulation data for publication of the platform. Requirements: ● Bachelor degree in a relevant discipline (computer science, bioinformatics). ● Fluency with linux. ● Demonstrated knowledge of programming experience in Python. ● Excellent communication and teamwork skills. ● Excellent time management skills. Assets: ● Proficiency in BASH scripting. ● Experience with statistical analyses, data management, and large datasets manipulation. ● Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. ● Experience in chemo(bio)informatics related projects. ● Master in Chemoinformatics or Drug Design. Candidates must send their presentation letter, CV and contact information to Dr Marco Cecchini ([log in to unmask]) To join or leave the molecular-dynamics-news email list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/molecular-dynamics-news.html