Oops. Obviously this was not meant to be as public as it worked out.
Just trying to do a friend a favour. It's all true though! Please
ignore/delete my previous...
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On 23/07/2015 12:02, Paul Driscoll wrote:
> 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,
>>
>> I’d like to draw your attention to our tremendously exciting news
>> about major investment in Structural Molecular Biology at the
>> University of Leeds:
>>
>> http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3701/university_funds_17m_structural_biology_lab
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Alex
>>
>> 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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> Paul Driscoll
> NMR-Metabolomics
> The Francis Crick Institute
> Mill Hill Laboratory
> The Ridgeway
> Mill Hill
> London NW7 1AA
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>
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Paul Driscoll
NMR-Metabolomics
The Francis Crick Institute
Mill Hill Laboratory
The Ridgeway
Mill Hill
London NW7 1AA
Tel. +44 (0)20 8816 2061 / +44 (0)7876 777937
http://www.crick.ac.uk
The Francis Crick Institute Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales no. 1140062 and a company registered in England and Wales no. 06885462, with its registered office at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
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