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PhD student [Master Physics, Chem or Math; further development of comp methods to analyze free-energy surfaces & their application to biologically relevant conformational transitions in proteins] / Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich (Irchel campus)

Department of Biochemistry
University of Zurich (Irchel campus)

Description

We are an interdisciplinary research group and study protein folding and peptide aggregation by molecular dynamics simulations. The research project involves the further development of computational methods to analyze free-energy surfaces and their application to biologically relevant conformational transitions in proteins.

Examples:

Ihalainen J.A. et al. PNAS 105, 9588-9593, 2008.
Krivov S.V. et al. J. Phys. Chem. B 112, 8701-8714, 2008.
Rao F. and Caflisch A., J. Mol. Biol. 344, 299-306, 2004.

pdf files of these papers are available on our webpage:
www.biochem-caflisch.uzh.ch

Education

Master of science in Physics, Chemistry or Mathematics. Because of the multidisciplinary research project, candidates should have a keen interest in learning new disciplines, and combining their main expertise with the new topic(s).

Contact address

Department of Biochemistry
University of Zurich

e-mail: caflisch@bioc.uzh.ch