We have posted a job announcement for an Academic Wage/Short Term position for an X-Ray Diffraction Facility Manager. You can find the job posting here 

https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/122673

The close date is 7/21. This is an open search for an academic wage/short term 0.5 FTE position. I am sending this email to all the XRD users in the COS. Brady Gibbons will send this to XRD users in the COE. Please forward the job posting to anyone interested in this short-term position.

Physical/Organic Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry at Oregon State University (OSU) seeks to fill a Tenure-Track faculty position starting in Fall 2023 at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are seeking candidates who are interested in developing innovative interdisciplinary research programs (bridging two or more disciplines in chemistry) with emphasis on overcoming challenges related to human health, renewable energy, and the environment. Preference will be given to candidates who can take advantage of existing university-wide facilities including the NMR facility, Mass Spectrometry center, X-ray Crystallography center, Electron Microscopy facility, and the Continuous Flow Reactor facility. The proposed research program should demonstrate proficiency or significant potential to garner national and international recognition with sustainable external grants.

The successful candidate is expected to teach in Physical Chemistry and/or Organic Chemistry, broadly defined. The candidate is also expected to fulfill working, teaching, and mentoring responsibilities in ways that provide equitable and inclusive environments for all students, faculty, and staff at OSU. Minimum qualifications include a Ph.D. in Chemistry or a related scientific field.  

To review the full posting and apply, go to: https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/122213. For full consideration, applications should be received by October 1, 2022; however, the position will remain open until filled.

OSU commits to inclusive excellence by advancing equity and diversity in all that we do. We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community. 

Greetings!

Do you have a student or postdoc with lab management experience and/or protein chemistry experience that may be looking for a job in Corvallis? 

The NIH funded GCE4All Biomedical Technology Development and Dissemination Center is looking for a Faculty Research Assistant. Could you please share this opportunity with any students or postdocs or faculty who may have students or postdocs who might be interested? They’d be interested in someone with lab management and/or related research experience.

Please see below for more information. 

Here’s a direct link to apply: https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/121984

Sincerely,

Bettye

Visiting Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Faculty Non-Tenure Track (9 Month)
College of Science and Engineering
Pocatello – Main
Primary Purpose: The Department of Chemistry at Idaho State University invites
applications for a non-tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Visiting Assistant
Professor beginning August 14, 2022. The candidate should possess a Ph.D. or ABD in
Chemistry or Biochemistry. The successful candidate will have primary teaching
responsibility in lower level chemistry courses and secondary teaching responsibility in
the candidate’s field of expertise. Teaching experience at a university level is a plus.
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience. The position includes
competitive benefits.
Key Responsibilities: The primary responsibility will be teaching but depending on the
candidate’s qualification collaborative research activities can be part of the responsibility.
For this position, the teaching responsibilities will include lower level chemistry courses
and/or courses in the candidate’s field of expertise, including laboratory courses. The
position can be renewed up to 3 years.
Minimum Qualifications: Ph.D. or ABD in Chemistry or Biochemistry
Preferred Qualifications: Teaching experience at a university level
Please submit the following documents with your application (ISU HR site):
CV, Cover Letter, Teaching Philosophy Statement, and unofficial undergraduate and
graduate transcripts (official transcripts will be required from the successful applicant).
Additionally, please arrange for three (3) letters of recommendation to be emailed
directly to the Department of Chemistry at chem@isu.edu.
Priority consideration will be given to complete applications received by July 17, 2022.
However, the position will remain open until filled. Compensation will be commensurate
with education and experience, and will include a competitive benefits package. Offers of
employment may be conditional pending successful completion of a background
investigation.

Notice of Available Ph.D. Position Starting September 2022

The Oregon State University Biodeterioration Laboratory is seeking a Ph.D. student to perform research into the environmental impacts of creosote. The project will employ a combination of environmental monitoring, lab-based experimentation and modelling to both measure and enable predictions of the impacts of creosote-treated wood on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The student will gain extensive experience using GC-MS to quantify polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from environmental samples. In addition, the student will be expected to develop a lab-scale leaching test to measure PAH migration rates from creosote-treated commodities. Finally, the student will be expected to develop excel-based predictive models to predict environmental PAH concentrations resulting from the presence of creosote-treated commodities in specific environments. A typical Ph.D. program in this field will run for four successive years.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Master’s degree in wood science, environmental chemistry, ecological engineering or related field

Or

Exceptional performance in a bachelor’s degree program in the above disciplines

• Experience working in an environmental chemistry laboratory
• Experience making models in Excel

Please contact Dr. Gerald Presley for more information and application.

gerald.presley@oregonstate.edu

We are looking to recruit a talented post-doctoral researcher in the upcoming year at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. I would be grateful if you could disseminate the attached position description throughout your department or to any graduate students who will be graduating in the next year and have an interest in Synthetic Biology. I have also posted the position description below. 

Salary: $87,198/year with health benefits plus travel support for conference attendance. Please email myself or Dr. Igor Medintz (igor.medintz@nrl.navy.mil) if interested. 

NRC Post Doc Announcement:

http://nrc58.nas.edu/RAPLab10/Opportunity/Opportunity.aspx?LabCode=64&ROPCD=641509&RONum=B8126

Synthetic Biology and Interfacial Catalysis

A postdoctoral research position is available in the Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC (http://www.nrl.navy.mil/).  This position is at the interface of biology and materials and focuses on creating new biocataltyic enzyme-based nanomaterials with emergent properties.

NRL is the Department of Defense’s (DoDs) corporate laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps. The Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering works at the interface of materials, chemistry, biology, biophysics and materials science to solve critical problems of importance to the Navy and DoD.

Project Description:  When enzymes are displayed at a nanoparticle interface in a controlled and homogeneous manner, in many cases they display substantially enhanced catalytic activity. We are interested in understanding the mechanisms by which enzyme activity is altered and enhanced at this nanoparticle interface and learning how to exploit this in the context of synthetic biology. We are particularly interested in designing and assembling totally artificial enzyme-based biosynthetic pathways on nanoparticles in vitro where the overall catalytic flux through the system can be expected to be greatly enhanced by what appears to be channeling behavior.  This approach represents an important and complementary way of achieving biocatalysis for use synthetic biology that is still extremely underutilized.

Candidates desired experience to include a PhD in a related biological discipline such as molecular biology, biochemistry, or microbiology with some combination of experience in cloning and recombinant DNA technology, enzymatic assays, fluorescence, bacterial-eukaryotic cell expression and analysis, biosensing, and synthetic biology. Experience with nanoparticles/nanomaterials and FRET are a plus.

Salary: $87,198/year with health benefits plus travel support for conference attendance. The position is administered through the National Research Council (https://www.nrl.navy.mil/careers/post-doc/nrc/). NRL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants must be US Citizens or US Permanent Residents at time of application.

Representative publications:

• Ellis, G.A., Díaz, S.A., Medintz, I.L. Enhancing Enzymatic Performance with Nanoparticle Immobilization: Improved Analytical and Control Capability for Synthetic Biochemistry. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 71, 77-90 (2021).
• Díaz, S.A., Choo, P., Oh, E., Susumu, K., Klein, W.P., Walper, S.A., Hastman, D.A., Odom, T.W., Medintz, I.L. Gold Nanoparticle Templating Increases the Catalytic Rate of an Amylase, Maltase, and Glucokinase Multienzyme Cascade through Substrate Channeling Independent of Surface Curvature. ACS Catalysis 11,627-638 (2021).
• Klein, W.; Thomsen, R.; Turner, K.; Walper, S.A.; Vranish, J.; Kjems, J.; Ancona, M.G.; Thakur, M., Medintz, I.L., Enhanced Catalysis from Multienzyme Cascades Assembled On A DNA Origami Triangle. ACS Nano 13, 13677-13689 (2019).
• Ellis, G.A., Klein, W.P., Lasarte Aragones, G., Thakur, M., Walper, S.A., Medintz, I.L. Artificial Multienzyme Scaffolds:  Pursuing In Vitro Substrate Channeling with an Overview of Current Progress.  ACS Catalysis 9, 10812-10869 (2019).
• Breger, J.C., Oh, E., Susumu, K., Klein, W.P., Walper, S.A., Ancona, M.G., Medintz, I.L. Nanoparticle Size Influences Localized Enzymatic Enhancement – A Case Study with Phosphotriesterase. Bioconjugate Chemistry 30, 2060-2074 (2019).
• Vranish, J.N., Ancona, M.G., Oh, E., Susumu, K., Lasarte-Aragones, G., Breger, J.C., Walper, S.A., Medintz, I.L.   Enhancing Coupled Enzymatic Activity by Colocalization on Nanoparticle Surfaces: Kinetic Evidence for Directed Channeling of Intermediates.  ACS Nano 12, 7911-7926 (2018).
• Breger, J.C., Ancona, M.G., Walper, S.A., Oh, E., Susumu, K., Stewart, M.H., Deschamps, J.R., Medintz, I.L. Understanding How Nanoparticle Attachment Enhances Phosphotriesterase Kinetic Efficiency. ACS Nano 8, 8491-8503 (2015).

Point of Contact:

Igor L. Medintz PhD (ST)

Senior Scientist for Biosensors and Biomaterials

Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering 

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Code 6907 

Washington D.C., 20375 USA

Email: Igor.medintz@nrl.navy.mil