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We are hiring! We are looking for highly energetic and motivated graduate students and postdocs with a background in physics, chemistry, or biology. Please contact sangjin@illinois for inquiry.
Specifically, we have openings for postdocs in the following projects.
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to develop new experimental methods to look at the interplay between DNA supercoiling and RNA polymerase group dynamics in vitro and in vivo (related to Kim et al. Cell 2019).
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To study the spatio-temporal coordination of transcription and mRNA degradation in different bacterial species, primarily using fluorescence imaging (related to the computation work published in Biophys J 2018).
These projects address mechanistic questions that require single-molecule resolution. Hence, scientists interested in leveraging single-molecule techniques for probing collective molecular interactions would be a good fit. Expertise in single-molecule biophysics, fluorescence microscopy (instrumentation/optics/image analysis), biochemistry, and bacterial genetics would be ideal but not required.