Postdoctoral Fellow (StructuralBiology, X-ray Crystallography)

Dr. Kirk E. Hevener laboratory in Departmentof Pharmaceutical Sciences, at the University of Tennessee Health ScienceCenter, invites applications from highly motivated and self-sufficientscientists for a full-time PostdoctoralFellow position to support amulti-year, federally funded research project. Learning opportunities for the successfulcandidate include training in enzymology, HTS assay design, virtual screening,and computer-aided methods in drug development.

The Hevener Laboratory at UTHSCfocuses on the validation and characterization of novel infectious disease drugtargets using both experimental and computational methods. This project focuseson a target in the bacterial fatty acid synthesis pathway and will involvex-ray co-crystallography and structure-guided lead optimization.