Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral fellow Full-time
Postdoctoral position
A three-year full-time postdoctoral position is available in the group of Dr. Luis R. Hernandez-Miranda, based at the Institut für Zell- und Neurobiology of the Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin. We are looking for a candidate with experience in at least one of the following areas: i) single-cell sequencing (wet-lab or computational), ii) Electrophysiology (patch-clamp, calcium imaging, motor root recordings), and/or iii) monosynaptic rabies tracing.
The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree relevant to neuroscience or molecular biology. Experienced postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to apply.
The successful candidate will work closely with the PI and other members of the team, perform experiments, write manuscripts, and participate in Institutional seminars and other activities. The ideal candidate will have excellent technical and communication skills, as well as a willingness to work well with others.
Please submit a cover letter, CV, the reprint(s) of any recent paper(s) in which you are the first/last author, and the names/emails for two references to luis.hernandez-miranda@charite.de by May 15th, 2021. Online interviews will be conducted in the last week of May, 2021. The position is immediately available (ideally from August 1st 2021, but a later starting date can be negotiated).
Informal queries can be sent to luis.hernandez-miranda@charite.de.
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Recent related publications
Lowenstein E.D., Rusanova A., Stelzer J, Hernaiz-Llorens M, Schroer A E., Epifanova E., Isik E.G., Buchert S., Jia S., Tarabykin V., Hernandez-Miranda L.R. (2021) Olig3 regulates early cerebellar development. eLife 10:e64684.
Hernandez-Miranda L.R., Ibrahim D., Ruffault P.L., Larrosa M., Balueva K., Müller T., van de Weerd W., Stolte-Dijkstra I., Hostra R.M.W., Brunet J.F., Fortin G., Mundlos S., Birchmeier C. (2018) Mutation in LBX1/Lbx1 precludes transcription factor cooperativity and causes congenital hypoventilation in humans and mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115: 13021-13026.
Hernandez-Miranda L.R.*, Ruffault P.L., Bouvier J., Murray A., Morin-Surun M.P., Zampieri N., Cholewa-Waclaw J.B., Ey E., Brunet J.F., Champagnat J., Fortin G., Birchmeier C.* (2017). Genetic identification of a hindbrain nucleus essential for innate vocalization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114:8095-8100. (*co-corresponding author).
Piwecka M.*, Glažar P.*, Hernandez-Miranda L.R.*, Memczak S., Wolf S.A., Rybak-Wolf A., Filipchyk A., Klironomos F., Cerda Jara C.A., Fenske P., Trimbuch T., Zywitza V., Plass M., Schreyer L., Ayoub S., Kocks C., Kühn R., Rosenmund C., Birchmeier C., Rajewsky N. (2017) Loss of a mammalian circular RNA locus causes miRNA deregulation and affects brain function. Science 357 (6357):eaam8526. (*co-first authors).
QUALIFICATION
PhD or equivalente
JOB TYPE
Postdoctoral
DISCIPLINE
Neuroscience
HOURS
Full Time
DURATION
Fixed Term (3 years)