Protein power

Andreas Plückthun, professeur de biochimie à l'université de Zürich, est un des pionniers du protein engineering. Son laboratoire est tellement connu qu'il n'a pas besoin de publier des Open Positions. Voilà ce que dit son site web:

Usually, we do not specifically advertise our open positions, as there has been a large number of highly qualified applicants, outnumbering the available positions by far and making selection sometimes very difficult.

A propos du protein engineering, il y a un article intéressant dans Seed qui dit entre autre:

“There are a huge number of proteins in nature that do all kinds of marvelous things,” says Baker. “But there’s an even larger set of proteins which nature never explored that could do even more marvelous things.”

J'adore quand des personnes offrent leur vue personelle sur des choses ou simplement racontent quelques trucs intéressants sur leur vie et donc cet entretien avec Plückthun m'a beaucoup plu.

I was always more interested in making and building things than taking alarm clocks apart to see how they work. I once took a radio apart, but it was still not obvious how it worked! Much like protein crystal structures today.