The Sugioka Lab at the University of British Columbia seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Graduate Student in developmental cell biology to study the developmental control of cell division and the cytoskeleton.
The successful candidates will lead projects investigating how cortical flow, concerted actomyosin flow, regulates embryonic morphogenesis, including asymmetric cell division and left-right asymmetry. In the past few years, our lab has identified novel mechanical regulation of cortical flow and its role in asymmetric regulation of cytokinesis (Khor et al., Current Biology, 2025; Hsu et al., Nature Communications, 2023). Building on this work, the successful candidate will investigate the molecular mechanisms and cellular information-processing principles underlying these processes.
Work will be developed in close collaboration with the supervisor. The postdoc candidate will also have a significant opportunity for independent project development (funding available up to five years).
Graduate student applicants: please send your CV to kenji.sugioka[at]ubc.ca
Postdoc applicants: please apply from this link https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfacultyjobs/details/Postdoctoral-Research-Fellow_JR24556
If you have any questions, please send it to kenji.sugioka[at]ubc.ca