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Are you eager to make a meaningful impact on the advancement of cost-effective treatments for snakebite victims and individuals affected by infectious diseases? Here's your opportunity to transform your expertise in venom, antibody, and antivenom research, along with your managerial skills, into tangible contributions. We are seeking a full-time researcher to the Centre of Antibody Technologies. In this pivotal role, you will drive the progress of our research initiatives focused on antibody discovery and development for snakebite envenoming and infectious diseases.
The Center for Antibody Technologies
The Center for Antibody Technologies specializes in various cutting-edge fields such as antigen design, antibody discovery, protein engineering, synthetic biology, and digital biotechnology. We work with a diverse range of protein scaffolds, including human monoclonal antibodies, nanobodies, and other binding proteins. These precision molecules play pivotal roles in combating diseases, diagnosing conditions, engineering microbiomes, and addressing challenges in industrial biotechnology.
Our focus lies in developing antibodies and binding proteins with unique properties, such as broad neutralization, conditional binding, anatomical targeting, and enhanced effector functions. To achieve our research objectives, we employ a combination of in vitro and in vivo discovery techniques. We collaborate closely with national and international partners, extending the reach of our scientific discoveries beyond the laboratory. Through these efforts, we aim to share the benefits of our research with the broader scientific community and society.
Our center is comprised of a dedicated team of approximately 30 full-time researchers and PhD students. We foster a highly collaborative environment that welcomes talented individuals from around the world, including students and guest researchers. Our primary goal is to attain scientific excellence by nurturing a culture of teamwork, ambition, dynamism, and inclusivity. This environment provides fertile ground for the development of fresh ideas and the continual expansion of the boundaries of scientific knowledge in the realm of antibody technologies.
See more: www.antibody.dk
Responsibilities and tasks
Your role will be to manage personnel and students within defined projects, perform experiments in the laboratory, analyze and summarize own and others' data, and prepare and summarize data for scientific publications, reports, meetings, conferences etc.
- Project management, including design and development of various experiments and analysis, ensuring they align with agreed timelines and deliverables.
- Supervision and management of students, lab technicians, and other lab members.
- Oversee and refine general lab protocols and activities within eg:
- antibody phage display technology
- purification and characterization of venoms and toxins
- characterization of antibodies and antibody fragments
- production of antibodies and antibody fragments in bacterial and mammalian cell cultures.
- purification of antibodies and antibody fragments from bacterial and mammalian cell cultures.
- Oversee and coordinate collaborations with external collaborators.
- Oversee the delivery of high-quality research, ensuring that our work maintains the highest standards on a daily basis.
- Being open to acquisition of new competences that are necessary for the performance of the work
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- At least 6-8 years of experience within the venom and antivenom field
- At least 3 years of academic experience at a postdoc level within Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Biochemistry, or related fields
- Strong background and hands-on experience in antibody discovery technologies such as phage display techniques
- Experience with constructing phage display antibody libraries
- Experience in the characterization of antibodies in terms of affinity and specificity including techniques such as BLI, ELISA, etc
- Experience in toxin purification from whole venoms using chromatography techniques such as HPLC, SEC, etc
- Experience with mammalian cell cultures including CHO cells
- Experience with developing functional in vitro assays including establishing two and three dimensional cell cultures for toxicity assays
- Experience with protein expression in bacterial and mammalian cell cultures
- Experience with protein purification
- Managerial experience, including supervising of lab technicians and students
- Effective collaboration and communication skills
- Positive proactive attitude
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in developing recombinant antivenoms against animal toxins
- Experience in working with industrial partners
- Strong international experience (minimum 5 years of working abroad from your home country)
The successful candidate should thrive in a highly ambitious research center that aims to establish new research fields. The successful candidate should be highly motivated, eager to seek and share knowledge, able to work independently in a dynamic group environment, and should be confident in planning and carrying out complicated tasks. Good communication skills in both written and spoken English are expected.
We offer
DTU is a leading technical university globally recognized for the excellence of its research, education, innovation and scientific advice. We offer a rewarding and challenging job in an international environment. We strive for academic excellence in an environment characterized by collegial respect and academic freedom tempered by responsibility.
More specifically at the Center for Antibody Technologies, we are a group of high performing young scientists that share the vision that science is supposed to benefit humankind, especially underprivileged societies and/or societal groups. This shared vision with a very international outreach has created an academic environment that is ambitious and innovative fuelled by an exceptionally collegially supportive attitude to both people and their work. We welcome people with all types of backgrounds and strive for diversity. Our research group is highly active in numerous outreach activities and our international travel agendas are typically busy.
Salary and terms of employment
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union.
The position is permanent and will be located at the DTU Lyngby campus in a newly established research building hosting ultra-modern laboratories for antibody discovery and phage display technology with neighbouring laboratories with state-of-the-art facilities for protein science and proteomics.
Application and contact
Please submit your online application no later than 9 November 2023.
Open the “Apply now” link, fill out the form and attach your motivated application, CV and exam certificates.
Additional information may be obtained from Anne Ljungars, aellj@dtu.dk.
If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU – Moving to Denmark .
Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, race, disability, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.
Technology for people
DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.
INFORMATIONER OM STILLINGEN:
- Arbejdspladsen ligger i:
Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune
-Virksomheden tilbyder:
-Arbejdsgiver:
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Anker Engelunds Vej, 2800 Kongens Lyngby
-Ansøgning:
Ansøgningsfrist: 09-11-2023; - ansøgningsfristen er overskredet
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