Employment Opportunities

Teaching Assistant (TA)

Each semester, the Department of Chemsitry & Biochemistry accepts applications for part time (~10 hours per week) and full-time (~20 hours per week) undergraduate TA positions. Undergraduate TAs receive a salary of $12 per hour, while gaining valuable teaching experience in our lower-division (100 and 200-level) courses. If you have a strong academic background, have completed coursework through at least Organic Chemistry, are enrolled in at least one unit of classes at ASU, and have exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, you are encouraged to apply at https://chemistry.asu.edu/applyTA/

Applications are accepted year-round and considered 1-2 weeks before each academic semester.

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Essential Functions:
Creates designs and fabricates electrical and/or electronic components and electrical circuits; often for computer driven technical applications; interprets electrical diagrams, troubleshoots and repairs electronic components of major instrumentation; repairs and maintains related scientific instrumentation associated with instruction and research; plans and manages schedules and accounts associated for self and supervisees; provides time and materials estimates for executing engineering assignments and regularly submits accounting reports

Duties and Responsibilities:
Works with and trains faculty, staff and students in the operation of equipment; supervises and coordinates the work activities of technicians and other who assist in specific assignments; works with researchers and instructors in modifying and creating new applications involving electronic and computer driven instrumentation; adept at skills related to all of the essential functions identified above

Desired qualifications:
Knowledge of EDA layout/design tools; Skill in interfacing electronic equipment to personal computers; Microwave and r.f. circuit design and diagnostics; Experience in research and development.

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field AND four (4) years of engineering or related experience; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Salary: $60,000-$70,000 per year, DOE

Close date: 12/15/2011

Instructions to Apply: Please visit www.asu.edu/asujobs to apply for this position under Job # 27598.

Background check is required for employment. ASU is an EO/AA employer and is committed to excellence through diversity. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

Position: Post-doctoral fellow with specialization in protein-carbohydrate interactions and solutionNMR.

A NIH-funded post-doctoral fellow position is available at Arizona State University’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. The research for the position will focus on investigating structural interactions of various proteins with complex carbohydrates such as glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), and the goal of the research is to achieve a good understanding of the structural and dynamic factors governing GAG-protein interaction specificities. The work requires an individual comfortable with the use of most conventional biophysical techniques, especially solution NMR, and is motivated in the development of new methods to characterize carbohydrate-protein interactions. Those with additional expertise in carbohydrate chemistry are especially encouraged to apply. Position is immediately available and the funding for the position will last two years.

Minimum Qualifications: PhD degree in Biochemistry or Chemistry and fluent in common solution NMR methodologies used in the characterization of protein and carbohydrate structures. Applicants are also required to have a good working knowledge of prokaryotic protein expression and purification.

Salary: $36,000-$38,000, DOE

Please send your application with contact info with 2 letters of professional recommendation by E-mail to Dr. Xu Wang at xuwang@asu.edu. For further info call Dr. Wang at (480)9653613

Background check is required for employment. ASU is an EO/AA employer and is committed to excellence through diversity. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

Post-Doctoral Researcher

A Post-Doctoral Researcher is sought to work in the research group of Prof P. Fromme at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at ASU to conduct research on the NIH funded project " femtosecond nanocrystallography of membrane proteins". The work includes analysis of nanocrystal data and structure determination of membrane proteins based on diffraction data collected from streams of fully hydrated nanocrystals at  Linac Coherence Light Source (fs X-ray Laser)  in Stanford, CA. The project also includes time resolved X-ray crystallography and development of new algorythyms for data analysis and phasing. The applicant must be familiar with state of the art crystallographic software. In addition, interest in the development of new programs for fs crystallography (see Chapman et al. Nature 2011, Kirian et al. Acta Cryst.) is highly desired.

Minimum Qualifications: PhD in Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Chemical Crystallography or related area.

Please send your application with contact info for 3 letters of recommendation by FAX and E-mail to Dr. Fromme at Fax: +1 480 965 2747, E-mail: pfromme@asu.edu. For further info call Dr. Fromme at +1 480 965 9028.

Background check is required for employment. ASU is an EO/AA employer and is committed to excellence through diversity. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

Post-doctoral positions in protein biochemistry and X-ray crystallography

The newly established NIH-funded Center for Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins in Infectious Diseases (MPID) at Arizona State University is seeking to fill two positions at the post-doctoral level in protein biochemistry and X-ray crystallography. The mission of the center is the X-ray structure determination of membrane proteins involved in pathogenesis, and the development of new concepts and technologies to eliminate current bottlenecks in crystallization. Targets include viral, bacterial, and human membrane proteins.

Requirements: PhD in a related field, such as Chemistry, Biochemistry or Biophysics. Prior experience in biophysical characterization of membrane proteins or protein structure determination by X-ray crystallography is strongly preferred.

Please submit cover letter, CV, and contact information for three references as a single pdf file via email attachment to: Dr. Rebekka Wachter, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1604 (rwachter@asu.edu). For additional information, please see: http://sbkb.org/KB/centers.jsp?pageshow=8; http://cemilinks.asu.edu/mpid/.

Background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.