PhD student in Bioinformatics

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PhD student in Bioinformatics

as a PhD student under the OPUS project 2020/39/B/NZ2/01301 entitled "Development of tools for the rational design of peptide therapeutics " financed by the National Science Centre, Poland, is open for application. Project leader: dr hab. Sebastian Kmiecik, prof. UW.

Number of positions: 1

Project description

The project "Development of tools for the rational design of peptide therapeutics" includes developing new software and/or using state-of-the-art structural bioinformatics software to study the structure of protein-peptide complexes, design of therapeutic peptides, study structure-function relationships, supporting experimental biomedical research, cooperation with external research groups.

Responsibilities

• exploring new scientific areas; learning new skills at the interface of bioinformatics, biology and medicine
• conducting research within the project (development and/or application of various methods for modeling structures of protein complexes; use of available experimental data and machine learning methods; practical applications of the software for example in drug design; analysis of modeling results; software integration and the creation of high-throughput modeling protocols)
• active participation in conducting research and entire publication proces (from idea to writing the final draft), possible conducting commercial projects
• cooperation and effective communication with the team and external research groups
• participation in determining research strategies and new research directions