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Job Details
Postdoctoral Fellow
Requisition ID #: 27726
Institution: Medical College of Wisconsin
Location: Milwaukee, WI, USA
Lab website: Lezi E's Lab @ MCW
For inquiries, please email at lezie@mcw.edu
The E lab in the Neuroscience Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin is seeking a highly-motivated postdoctoral fellow with interests in neurodegeneration and aging research.
The lab currently uses C. elegans (roundworm) as a model system, combining a variety of approaches in genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology as well as in vivo live imaging techniques, to study 1) how antimicrobial peptides regulate neurodegeneration in aging, 2) how the aging process of non-neuronal tissues affects the onset of neurodegeneration, and 3) mechanisms behind inter-individual variation in neuronal aging.
Preferred Education: A recent or expected Ph.D. degree in biological or biomedical fields (cell biology, molecular biology, neurobiology/neuroscience, biochemistry, microbiology or related fields)
Preferred Experience: Strong skills in molecular biology; genome editing, fluorescence microscopy and imaging processing; C. elegans genetics; excellent communication; at least one first-authored publication.
Postdoctoral appointees can pursue basic, clinical or translational projects so long as their primary effort is devoted toward their own scholarship. Postdocs are essential to the scholarly mission of the mentor and host institution, and thus are expected to have the freedom to publish the results of their scholarship.
Characteristics of a postdoctoral appointment:
It is expected that postdocs at MCW, with the assistance of their supervisor, will:
Transition to career independence through the development of professional skills that enable the postdoc to actively pursue a career of his/her own choosing.
Be supervised by at least one senior scholar who actively promotes the postdoc’s professional development.
Establish an individual development plan (IDP) that incorporates equally the postdoc’s career and training goals and the mentor’s research goals.
Pursue basic, clinical, or translational projects so long as effort is focused primarily on research.
Publish results of the postdoc’s research and scholarship during their appointment.
The postdoctoral appointment is temporary by nature, the aggregate amount of time spent as a postdoc is recommended to not exceed five years (not including family medical leave or maternity/paternity leave).
As postdocs are important members of the host institution’s community, appropriate levels of compensation, health care, and other benefits commensurate with their essential status should be afforded, independent of the postdoc’s source of funding.
Preferred Schedule:
M-F 8-5; some evenings/weekends
Position Requirements:
Knowledge – Skills – Abilities
Required knowledge: biology, chemistry, mathematics, statistics, documentation, records management, data utilization, complex problem solving, critical thinking, resource management, and writing skills
Specifications
Minimum Required Education: PhD in a scientific field or MD
Minimum Required Experience: None