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<p>(sending this announcement on behalf of Reidar Lund, University
of Oslo)</p>
<p>Dear colleagues,
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<div class="">a PhD-position in biological soft matter is available
in my group at the University of Oslo (three year contact). <a
href="http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1778869/64291?iso=no"
class="">http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1778869/64291?iso=no</a> </div>
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<div class="">I would greatly appreciate if you could forward this
information to potential candidates.</div>
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<div class="">Best,</div>
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<div class="">Reidar</div>
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<p class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Antimicrobial
peptides and peptoidomimetic compounds such as peptoids, are
promising candidates to fight resistant bacteria. However, their
mechanism is not understood in detail and issues such as toxicity
and sensitivity towards proteolytic degradation limit their
practical applications. The project aims to understand the
fundamental biophysical mechanism of antimicrobial peptides and
petidomimetics so as to be better able to modify and design new
effective antimicrobial agents.</p>
<p class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
candidate will perform systematic studies of the interactions
between model biomembranes (liposomes, supported bilayers) and
antimicrobial peptides and investigate their effect on structure,
dynamics and transport using manly X-ray and neutron scattering
techniques. The main methods will be small angle neutron/X-ray
scattering (SAXS/SANS), neutron/X-ray reflectometry including
advanced data modeling. Complementary techniques are mainly light
scattering, single ion conductivity (BLM) and calorimetry.</p>
<p class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
PhD work will be done in close collaboration with Roskilde
University and University of Copenhagen who will design,
synthesize and perform biological characterization of the
antimicrobial compounds.</p>
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