Hi Alex,
I hope this finds you well.
I just came back from the CCPN meeting. I thought it worth writing that
my former post-doc Timothy (TJ) Ragan, now with Geerten Vuister at
Leicester is 'in the market' for a job in the NMR field. To my mind, TJ
is a fantastic all-rounder with skills ranging from protein expression
and purification, through diverse practical aspects of NMR spectroscopy,
to the advanced computational skills such as chemometrics and coding of
Bayesian analysis that is extremely rare. He is the principal reason why
the Francis Crick Institute now has a NMR-based metabolomics capability
(and arguably any metabolomics capability at all since even the FCI
investment in mass spec. for metabolomics derives from the Gould group
2011 Cell paper that TJ was instrumental in enabling) and also arguably
why I still have a job. It is frankly criminal that the FCI have not
(yet) been able to offer TJ a post (in part because of multi-contract
time limit rules). TJ's current situation at Leicester is precarious,
relying on bits of soft money, and will eventually run out. Whilst I
imagine that the Leeds investment might not anticipate employment of
someone of TJ's ilk, just in case there is I told him I would forward
you his details:
T.J. Ragan <[log in to unmask]>
Ragan, Timothy J. (Dr.) <[log in to unmask]>
TJ lives in Chesterfield so I guess he could make a quick visit to Leeds
without much expense if there was any worth discussing with him.
Cheers,
Paul
On 06/06/2015 16:58, Alexander Breeze wrote:
> Dear All,
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> I’d like to draw your attention to our tremendously exciting news about major investment in Structural Molecular Biology at the University of Leeds:
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> http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3701/university_funds_17m_structural_biology_lab
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> We will be investing ~£17M to establish the Astbury BioStructure Laboratory within the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology. The investment will fund high-field (950MHz) NMR, two 300kV TEMs, and scientific support to provide a truly world-class environment for structural biology. Work to deliver this is beginning today.
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> We will also be recruiting both senior and earlier career researchers to come to join the laboratory and encourage outstanding scientists at all levels to contact [log in to unmask] (Director of EM) or [log in to unmask] (Director of NMR) to discuss future opportunities.
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> Best wishes,
> Alex
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> Prof Alexander L Breeze
> Professor of Biomolecular NMR
> Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology
> Faculty of Biological Sciences
> University of Leeds
> Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
> T: +44 (0)113 343 0087
> E: [log in to unmask]
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