Description

The Dickson, Feig, Vermaas, Wei, Woldring laboratories together form Team Green, a collaborative research effort funded by DARPA to predict protein structural ensembles, ligand binding affinities, and protein functions through existing bioinformatics approaches and an extensive simulation campaign. To support these efforts, Team Green is looking for up to 4 qualified postdoctoral research associates to apply molecular simulation and mathematical methods to extend and develop these predictive tools into a broadly usable pipeline. 

Requirements

Day to day, the expectation will depend on the research group a successful candidate is associated with. Drs. Dickson, Feig, and Vermaas will expect that the researcher has prior experience with a programming language such as python and Unix-based operating systems such as MacOS or Linux. These tools are essential to set up, carry out, and analyze molecular simulation trajectories, and to interact with high performance computing environments needed to run those trajectories. Thus, previous experience with these tools is beneficial but not essential:

Python libraries like Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Pytorch, or Matplotlib

A programmable molecular viewer such as VMD

Simulation engines such as NAMD, CHARMM, OpenMM, AMBER, or GROMACS

Basic familiarity with the linux terminal