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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We have a postdoc position open in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black">artificial intelligence for structural bioinformatics and cryo-EM</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">NOTE: It closes 11 March, if you are interested just upload your CV here (it system might ask for more, but CV is fine):</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a href="https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=18192&rmlang=UK" title="https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=18192&rmlang=UK"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=18192&rmlang=UK</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">The position is a joint interdisciplinary research project between professor Bjorn Wallner at Linkoping University (<a href="https://liu.se/medarbetare/bjowa51" target="_blank" title="https://liu.se/medarbetare/bjowa51"><span style="color:#0563C1">Bjorn
Wallner – LiU</span></a>) and associate professor Alexey Amunts at SciLifeLab (<a href="https://www.scilifelab.se/researchers/alexey-amunts/" target="_blank" title="https://www.scilifelab.se/researchers/alexey-amunts/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Alexey Amunts
– SU</span></a>) 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Environment</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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