Summary

We are looking to fill a postdoctoral position with a recently trained PhD who plans to pursue a career in muscle function and disease. The successful applicant will choose a research plans that falls within the overall interests of the laboratory in calcium signaling in skeletal muscle, muscle structure and function and/or muscle disease and development of therapeutic interventions. The applicant should be able to design and carry out the appropriate experiments, analyze the data and prepare manuscripts for publication. A knowledge of statistics is required.

Job Duties

• Functions as part of a multidisciplinary research team.
• Attends and present data at scientific conferences.
• Gives departmental seminars.
• Performs mouse colony management and genotyping.
• Submits NIH postdoctoral training grant applications.
• Keeps an indepth laboratory notebook.
• Analyzes data generated and write manuscripts.
• Designs an experimental plan.
• Learns new techniques, including:
  • muscle structure and function analyses,
  • SDS PAGE,
  • western blotting,
  • immunoprecipitation,
  • Isolation of mRNA,
  • RNAseq,
  • ATACseq,
  • CHIPseq and methylomics.

Minimum Qualifications

• MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.
• No experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD.
• Experience in working with mice.
• Knowledge of physiology.
• Skeletal muscle.
• Calcium signaling and statistics.
• Works well with others and as part of a team.