RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS are available in Dr. Zene Matsuda’s group at the Laboratory of Structural Virology and Immunology (LSVI) in the Institute of Biophysics. The current appointment-term is project-based (the project is expected to continue till March 2015) and renewable after annual review.　 Highly motivated candidates who hold a bachelor or master degree in the fields of virology, protein science and molecular biology are sought. Research will be related to the analyses of the structure-function relationship of the proteins derived from HIV-1. Successful candidates should be proficient in both written and spoken English.

Interested candidates should submit their CVs in English and the names of two reference persons with their contact information (email address and telephone number) to Dr. Fanxia Meng: meng(AT)moon.ibp.ac.cn by the end of July 2011. [Please change (AT) to @ when an e-mail is to be sent.]

CAS-University of Tokyo Joint Laboratory of Structural

Virology and Immunology

Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District

Beijing 100101, China

(010) 6484-1589