Position available

I am pleased to offer a 3-year position (assegno di ricerca) in my group at the University of Padova. The contract can commence in October 2024 but starting date is relatively flexible. The project is funded under the 'Progetti di Eccellenza Cariparo' framework.

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This is a structural biology project aimed at the complete mechanistic understanding of cofactor-independent uric acid degradation by the archetypal urate oxidase enzyme. Our overarching goal is to establish a general mechanistic framework for cofactor-independent oxygenasion/oxidation catalysis in biological systems. 

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The project is very mature and it offers the unique opportunity to apply not only conventional X-ray crystallography but also state-of-the-art serial X-ray, electron, and neutron crystallographic techniques. Established collaborations with national (Parma) and internationals research institutes (ILL-Grenoble, University of Stockholm, MLZ-Garching) and synchrotrons (ESRF-Grenoble, DESY-Hamburg) are in place and the researcher employed on this project will have the chance to interact from world-experts in their disciplines and spend some time in their laboratories. 

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If this is of potential interest, please get in touch with me roberto.steiner@unipd.it and I will be delighted to discuss and provide additional information.