PhD Position C-C Bond Formation by Top Performing Enzymes

The Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) is looking for a PhD Student for a ITN- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions CC-TOP grant, on C-C Bond Formation by Top Performing Enzymes. The PhD candidate will join an ongoing project, focused on synthesis of metal ligands and their metalation, to be used as artificial cofactors into the protein scaffold, expression and production of the protein scaffold and attachment of the artificial cofactor into its cavity evaluation of the artificial metalolyases in C-C bond formation, including the synthesis of non-commercial substrates and optimization of the activity and selectivity of selected candidates by directed evolution techniques.