Postdoctoral Position in Computational Biophysics
Drug/Protein Interactions
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

A postdoctoral position to perform computational studies on drug/protein
interactions with Prof. Pei Tang at University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine is available. A Ph.D. in chemistry, physics, biology or a related
discipline is required. Experience in programming and familiarity with
docking/modeling/MD software packages is desirable.

Examples of recent papers:
1.Szarecka A, Xu Y, Tang P: Dynamics Analysis of Firefly Luciferase
  Function: New Insight into Protein Theory of General Anesthesia,
  Biophyscal J, 93,1895-1905, (2007)

2.Cheng MH, Liu LT, Saladino A, Xu Y, Tang P: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
  of Ternary Membrane Mixture - Phosphatidylcholine, Phosphatidic Acid, and
  Cholesterol, J Phys Chem B, 111, 14186-92, (2007)

3.Liu Z, Xu Y, Tang P: Steered Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Na+
  Permeation across the Gramicidin A Channel, J. Phys. Chem. B, 110,
  12789-12795, (2006)

4.Yonkunas M.J, Xu Y, Tang P: Anesthetic Interaction with Ketosteroid
  Isomerase: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Biophysical J,
  2350-2356, (2005)

Applicants should send a CV and arrange for two letters of recommendation to
be sent to ptang-x-pitt.edu (preferred), or to Professor Pei Tang, University
of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Biomedical Science Tower 3, Room 2049,
3501 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. The University of Pittsburgh is an
affirmative action, equal opportunity, employer.