Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow in Single-Cell Epigenomics Full-time
Located in the heart of Phoenix, Ariz., St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center is a 586-bed, not-for- profit hospital that provides a wide range of health, social and support services with special advocacy for the poor and underserved. St. Joseph’s is a nationally recognized center for quality tertiary care, medical education and research. It includes the internationally renowned Barrow Neurological Institute, the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center, the Norton Thoracic Institute, a campus of Creighton University’s Medical School and the first Level I Trauma Center in Arizona verified by the American College of Surgeons. U.S. News & World Report routinely ranks St. Joseph’s among the best hospitals in the United States for neurology and neurosurgery. For more information please visit our website at https://www.dignityhealth.org/arizona/locations/stjosephs.
We seek an outstanding postdoctoral applicant with a PhD degree in molecular biology, biochemistry, life sciences or closely related field. Applicants are expected to have an excellent track record of research publications related to pre-clinical (mouse models) and computational approaches. We prefer someone with at least one original research first author publication in the relevant field. The ideal candidate is going to work on exciting field such as epigenetic regulation in organ fibrosis underpinned by excellent benefits. S/he will focus on single-cell epigenomics approaches to study gene regulatory networks in the development of organ fibrosis. S/he will possess excellent project management and interpersonal skills.
Qualifications:
• Doctorate degree in molecular biology or biochemistry or computational biology or life sciences is required. Fresh or recent PhD graduates are welcome.
• Experience with mice or rodent surgery techniques is preferred but not required.
• Experience working with R and Python pipelines such as Seurat and CellRanger is preferred but not required.
• Experience in computational and statistical skills: Microsoft Office, Graphpad Prism and data analysis is preferred.
Responsibilities:
• Will focus on working and analyzing single-cell RNA sequencing, single-cell ATAC sequencing, single-cell combinatorial indexing and integration of multimodal omic approaches.
• Will focus working with mice including handling, surgery, sacrifice and tissue harvest techniques.
• Specific laboratory molecular biology techniques he/she will perform include, and are not limited to, isolation of patient or mouse derived primary cell cultures, real-time reverse- transcription quantitative PCR (RTPCR), molecular cloning assays, immunohistochemistry and Western blotting.
• In addition to the scientific experiments, postdoctoral applicant should have good communication skills and excellent work ethics and will be responsible for effective scientific writing such as manuscripts and abstract presentations.
Please email curriculum vitae and a brief research statement to sangara at asu dot edu.