[SocBiN] Postdoc in ML, structural biology and cryo-EM

[Björn Wallner]

Dear all,

We have a postdoc position open in artificial intelligence for structural bioinformatics and cryo-EM.

NOTE: It closes 11 March, if you are interested just upload your CV here (it system might ask for more, but CV is fine):
https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=18192&rmlang=UK

In this position you will be using and develop AI/ML methods to study protein-protein interactions. The methods will be applied to solve large molecular structures augmented by cryo-EM data. The project involves using existing methods, e.g, AlphaFold, and developing new AI methods that are specific tailored to the problem and the data available.
We are seeking applicants who have a Ph.D. degree in a relevant area, such as bioinformatics, computer science or structural biology eager to learn new methodologies.. Previous experience with machine learning, artificial intelligence and/or structural biology is required. The applicant should also be experienced in programming, preferably Python or equivalent language. Strong communicative skills and fluency in written and spoken English are a requirement. Having worked with large data set in HPC environment is also a merit.
The position is a joint interdisciplinary research project between professor Bjorn Wallner at Linkoping University (Bjorn Wallner – LiU<https://liu.se/medarbetare/bjowa51>) and associate professor Alexey Amunts at SciLifeLab (Alexey Amunts – SU<https://www.scilifelab.se/researchers/alexey-amunts/>) with aim of using and develop AI methods to understand protein-protein interactions and apply them to biologically relevant problems for which we have cryo-EM data. The position is based at the AI structural biology group at LiU, but it also includes collaborations with the cryo-EM groups at SciLifeLab.
Environment
The AI structural biology group, where the position will be based, at LiU consists of one PhD student, one senior AI expert, and one structural bioinformatics professor working on applying AI in structural biology. A new group leader has also been recruited that will join the team after the summer. The group is embedded together with experimental groups in structural biology at the department ensuring that the developed methods are relevant and can be readily applied. The current research focus is on how to incorporate protein dynamics and flexibility into the models to enable a deeper understanding on protein function. The group have access to the newly installed Berzelius GPU-cluster. Berzelius is an NVIDIA SuperPOD consisting of 60 NVIDIA DGX-A100 compute nodes supplied by Atos. Each DGX-A100 node is equipped with 8 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, 2 AMD Epyc 7742 CPUs, 1 TB RAM and 15 TB of local NVMe SSD storage. The A100 GPUs have 40 GB on-board HBM2 VRAM.
The cryo-EM group at SU consists of three PhD students, and three postdocs. The group has access to the state-of-the-art cryo-EM facility equipped with Titan Krios microscopes with K3 direct electron detectors. The research focus is on large multi-protein complexes involved in bioenergetics.





cheers
Björn Wallner
Professor
Head of Bioinformatics Division


[Linköping University]
Institutionen för Fysik, Kemi och Biologi (IFM)
581 83 Linköping
Telephone: 013-28 27 59
Mobile: 070-521 56 65
Visiting address: 2B:580 (B-huset)


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