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Material Measurement Laboratory

Biomolecular Measurement Division

NIST-NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

The National Research Council sponsors a 2-year fellowship to work at NIST.

For more information on the fellowship, eligibility and application process, please visit the NIST International and Academic Affairs site on the subject.

NIST-NRC Research Opportunities Available within the Biomolecular Measurement Division

(Opportunities are hyperlinked to NRC Postdoctoral Research Opportunity Listings)

Applied Genetics Group

Accurate Nucleic Acid Measurements for Molecular Diagnostics	Megan Cleveland
Clinical Genetics	Peter Vallone
Ensuring the Safety of Vaccines and Biologics	Megan Cleveland
Next Generation Sequencing Analysis of Forensic Markers	Peter Vallone Katherine Gettings

Bioanalytical Science Group

Biomolecular Structure and Function Group

Advanced computational modeling techniques to enable fast screening of RNA biopharmaceutical products	Christina Bergonzo John Marino
Biopharmaceutical and Membrane Protein Stabilization	Curt Meuse
Computational Methods for NMR Structural Biology and Spectral Fingerprinting of Protein Therapeutics	Frank Delaglio
Creating Computational Techniques to Investigate the Ensemble Structures of Flexible Proteins In Combination with Neutron Scattering Data	Christina Bergonzo Yun Liu
Determination of Flexibly Linked, Dynamic or Intrinsically Unfolded Proteins and RNA from Solution NMR and X-ray Scattering Data	Alexander Grishaev
Development of Procedures for Increasing the Information Content of the Biomolecular Solution X-ray Scattering Data and Improving the Accuracy of their Structural Interpretation	Alexander Grishaev
Development of Technologies to Enable Single Molecule Protein Sequencing	John Marino
High-Resolution NMR for 3D Structural "Finger-Printing" of Biological Therapeutics	Rob Brinson
In vivo Protein Labeling with Stable Isotopes	Zvi Kelman
Real-time monitoring of bioreactions, using in-line, low-field, benchtop NMR, to facilitate adaptive control in biotherapeutic manufacturing	Subrata H Mishra
Structural characterization of LNP/mRNA vaccines by combining CryoEM, SAXS, and SANS	Thomas Cleveland
Structural Fingerprinting of Oligonucleotide Therapeutics	Rob Brinson
Structural Profiling of mRNA Vaccine and Therapeutic Platform Technologies	Rob Brinson Thomas Cleveland John Marino
Structure-function Analysis of Vaccines using solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance	John Marino
Structure-function Studies of Antimicrobial Peptides in Lipid Membranes	John Marino

Bioprocess Measurements Group

Enabling Research for Next-Generation Chemical and Biochemical Sensing	Kurt Benkstein Steve Semancik
Fundamental Studies of Transduction Phenomena for Microscale and Nanoscale Chemical/Biochemical Sensors	Steve Semancik
Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry of Proteins and Biosimilar Drugs	Kyle Anderson
Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies for Controlled Molecular Self-Assembly, Analytical Biochemistry, and Multiplexed Measurements	Wyatt Vreeland
Microfluidics for B iotherapeutics Measurements	Richard Cavicchi

DNA Damage Project

Oxidative DNA damage as bioindicator for environmental genotoxicity

Pawel Jaruga

Mass Spectrometry Data Center Group

Algorithms for Compound Identification by Mass Spectrometry	Xioayu (Sara) Yang
Building and Using Mass Spectral Reference Libraries	Steve Stein
Differentiation of Analytical and Biological Variability in Metabolomics using Standard Reference Materials and Multivariate Statistics	Yamil Simon
Improving Peptide Identification By Making Use of All Levels of Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analysis	Meghan Harris Burke
Leveraging Artificial Neural Networks for Enhancing GC and LC-MS Metabolomics Data Interpretation and Integration	Tytus Mak
Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis	Steve Stein
Mass Spectrometry-Based Measurements of Protein Glycosylation	Steve Stein
Numerical Methods in Chemical Spectroscopy and Materials Characterization	William Wallace
Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Chemistry	Lewis Geer

Bioscience, Biomanufacturing, Cell biology, Genomics, Glycomics, Proteomics, Forensic genetics, Biopharmaceuticals, Clinical diagnostics and Precision medicine

Created March 31, 2014, Updated August 16, 2024

Analytical Methods Development for Metabolomics	Mark Lowenthal Karen Phinney
Analytical Mass Spectrometry for Organics and Biomolecules	Karen Phinney David Bunk Mark Lowenthal
Analytical Technology for Biopharmaceutical Process and Product Characterization	Karen Phinney, John Schiel Illarion Turko
Characterization of Protein-based Allergens	David Bunk Ashley Beasley Green Melissa Phillips
The Measurement Science of Clinical Proteomics	David Bunk Mark Lowenthal Karen Phinney Illarion Turko
Method development for quantifying protein hormones in clinical applications	Mark Lowenthal
Next Generation Biopharmaceuticals	John Schiel
Novel Analytical Separation Science Methodology	Karen Phinney
Oligonucleotide Analysis by Mass Spectrometry	Mark Lowenthal
Qualitative and Quantitative Characterization of Clinical Analytes	Ashley Beasley Green