The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) has established six Core Competencies to offer guidance to individual postdoctoral scholars who must seek out relevant training experiences and to the mentors, institutions, and other advisors who provide this training.
Postdoctoral Position in the Laboratory of Dr. Dario Marchetti:
Postdoctoral Scientists – Translational Cancer Research
Postdoctoral scientist opportunities are available immediately in the Marchetti laboratory at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Marchetti is an internationally recognized translational cancer researcher and Principal Investigator of a NIH/NCI-funded laboratory, leading expert in the characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) and Liquid Biopsy. The postdoctoral scientists will work independently as well as part of the lab team on research projects under the supervision of the principal investigator. For more information please visit: http://cancer.unm.edu/member/dmarchetti/.
Positions relate to highly relevant and innovative programs of translational cancer biology using cutting-edge concepts and technologies. Postdoctoral Fellows will be responsible implementing programs in the cell, molecular and translational biology of CTC metastatic specificity interplaying with dormancy and quiescence; involving the use of human CTCs/cell lines, pre-clinical CDX models and clinical samples reflective of disease status. Extensive state-of-the-art CTC platforms, technologies and know-how are available in a well-funded and well-run laboratory. The successful candidates will have a PhD degree in molecular biology, cell biology, immunology or related field. Candidate may be recent PhD recipients or individuals seeking additional postdoctoral training. Strong preference will be given to individuals with high motivation and a proven track record of productivity.
Salary and benefits are competitive and commensurate with research experience and background they are based upon the NIH Ruth Kirschenstein Postdoctoral Fellow Scale. For inquiries or to apply, visit us online at: https://unm.jobs.edu and/or contact:
Dario Marchetti, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Molecular Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Professor, Department of Pathology
UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center
Phone: (505) 272-7937
E-mail: dmarchetti@salud.unm.edu
http://cancer.unm.edu/member/dmarchetti/
The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center is the Official Cancer Center of New Mexico and the only National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center in a 500-mile radius. One of the premier cancer centers nationwide, the UNM CCC has more than 125 board-certified oncology physicians, forming New Mexico’s largest cancer care team. It treats about 60 percent of adults and virtually all the children in New Mexico diagnosed with cancer — more than 10,000 people— from every county in the state in more than 135,000 clinic visits each year. Through its partnership with the New Mexico Cancer Care Alliance, an “exemplary national model for cancer health care delivery,” the UNM CCC offers access to more than 175 clinical trials to New Mexicans in every part of the state. Annual research funding of almost $60 million supports the UNM CCC’s 130 cancer scientists. Working with partners at Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, and New Mexico State University, they have developed new diagnostics and drugs for leukemia, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, liver and pancreatic cancer, brain cancer, and melanoma. Learn more at www.cancer.unm.edu.
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Please see the attached announcement for pilot funding through the Gonorrhea Vaccine Cooperative Research Center. This funding is targeted to senior post-docs or new investigators without previous extramural funding. Please feel free to distribute this this funding announcement to your UNM colleagues.
The Gonorrhea Vaccine Cooperative Research Center (The GVCRC) announces a call for Developmental Research Program (DRP) proposals. The purpose of the DRP is to provide support ($60,000/year for 2 years) to new investigators in the field of vaccine development for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Investigators must be capable of developing an independent research project and intend to pursue a research career. The pilot proposals should generate basic science or translational data that can be used to solicit independent funding. The topics that will be considered for funding should directly support STI vaccine research to include gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, vaccine-induced immune responses, vaccine adjuvants, epitope mapping, antigen mining, and novel vaccine platforms or delivery systems and other aspects of vaccine development that are relevant to immune-mediated prevention of sexually transmitted infections.
To be eligible, applicants must be:
A senior post-doctoral researcher (M.D. or Ph.D.), with at least 3 years of post-doctoral research experience.
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An early-stage investigator who has completed post-doctoral training but is not yet independently funded by an extramural award,
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Show the need for scientific mentorship to become an independent researcher.
ALSO
The applicant must be an employee of one of the following GVCRC institutions; Uniformed Services University, Emory University, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Duke University, Emory University, University of Virginia, University of New Mexico and Oregon State University.
Application Deadline
Monday, November 1, 2021
5:00pm EST
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The Biology Department at California State University, Fresno, is currently searching for a new tenure-track assistant professor who specializes in microbiology. As CSU Fresno is a Hispanic Serving Institution and an Asian American/Native American/Pacific Islander Serving Institution, we are especially interested in applicants from fellow Minority Serving Institutions, such as UNM. Since your department has a PhD program that may include students with microbiology expertise, we would like to ask you to please share the job advertisement (attached) with eligible recent PhD graduates and postdocs, and encourage them to apply!
Best,
Katherine Waselkov
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Katherine Waselkov
Associate Professor
Department of Biology, M/S SB 73
California State University, Fresno
2555 East San Ramon Ave.
Fresno, CA 93740
Phone: (559) 278-2559
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Dear Colleagues,
Do you know outstanding Ph.D. students who anticipate graduating by the summer of 2022, and are interested in pursuing postdoctoral training? Postdoctoral Research Opportunities in Science (PROS) allows students to explore the options for postdoctoral training and learn about the resources at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). We facilitate the matching of students with faculty who have aligned interests and provide guidance and support to students through the exploration process. A list of interested faculty who are currently seeking postdoctoral candidates is here.
Selected candidates will be invited for a virtual visit during November 2021 to learn about resources at BCM designed to help postdocs reach their professional goals and meet with faculty and lab groups. Candidates are expected to meet with at least 3 prospective faculty mentors.
The application is due by October 20, 2021.
Baylor College of Medicine provides:
All of this while living in Houston – an affordable and highly diverse city.
Please forward this email and post this flyer. Contact the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at postdocaffairs@bcm.edu with questions.
Regards,
Evelin Young, Ph.D.
Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
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The Office of Postdoctoral Research at The Ohio State University College of Medicine is excited to announce a Virtual 2021 Autumn Postdoctoral Recruitment Event on October 25! Interviews will occur October 26-29.
This event will provide an excellent opportunity for outstanding postdocs and PhD students from leading graduate programs to meet our research faculty, interview for open postdoctoral positions, and discover the exciting and innovative research taking place at The Ohio State University and the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH).
Application for this event is open to postdocs or senior graduate students who have completed or expect to complete their PhD by December 2021.
Any candidate can apply. We are especially interested in reviewing applications from permanent residents and US Citizens who are training grant-eligible. Individuals from groups underrepresented in the biomedical workforce are strongly encouraged to apply, including students from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented nationally and individuals with disabilities.
Selected candidates will be invited to attend a virtual event. There might be opportunities for individuals residing in the United States to interview in-person, depending on the Covid-19 status in October. All participants will learn more about the Ohio State campus and Columbus, Ohio, network with current Ohio State and NCH postdocs, present their research to faculty in a virtual presentation, interview with prospective mentors, and learn about postdoctoral opportunities at Ohio State and Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Candidates selected to participate in the virtual 2021 Autumn Postdoctoral Recruitment Event may be considered for a variety of opportunities at Ohio State, including fellowships, training grants, and other internal training programs.
The list of faculty members seeking applicants is here.
A selection committee will review completed applications, and notification of acceptance will be sent via email.
Please contact the Office of Postdoctoral Research at The Ohio State University at postdoc.office@osumc.edu with any questions.
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Sandia National Laboratories is seeking candidates for our two Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships in National Security Science and Engineering. These fellowships are three-year appointments that allow recipients to pursue independent research that supports Sandia's national security mission. We ask that you encourage your top PhD students in science or engineering to apply. Please share this information with those students, deans, department chairs, faculty, research center directors, graduate studies offices, fellowship offices, and professional societies. We are proud to have selected Fellows from Caltech, Georgia Tech, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, University of Texas-Austin, and University of Wisconsin-Madison, among others.
The Jill Hruby Fellowship Program recognizes and honors the achievements of Jill Hruby who served as President and Director of Sandia National Laboratories from 2015 to 2017, spent 34 years at Sandia, and was the first woman to be appointed director of a large multidisciplinary national security laboratory. The Fellowship’s purpose is to attract and recruit women in engineering and science fields interested in research and technical leadership careers in national security. Jill was recently selected to be the Department of Energy’s Under Secretary for Nuclear Security.
The President Harry S. Truman Fellowship Program, honors President Truman who, in 1949, asked AT&T to accept managerial responsibility of Sandia and challenged us to provide “an exceptional service in the national interest”—a motto that leads us to excel to this day. The Fellowship’s purpose is to attract and recruit candidates who have solved or will have provided a new approach or insight into a challenging scientific or engineering problem in their thesis work, as evidenced by a recognized impact in their field. Fellows may work at either principal location, Albuquerque, NM or Livermore, CA. The salary is $111,200. Candidates must be able to obtain a security clearance, which requires US citizenship, and be seeking their first national laboratory appointment. They must have been awarded a PhD (with strong academic standing) within three years at the time of application or will have completed all PhD requirements by commencement of the appointment. Applications are due October 15, 2021, with a nominal fellowship start date of October 1, 2022.
For questions, please contact the Hruby Fellowship Team at HrubyFellowship@sandia.gov or the Truman Fellowship Team at TrumanFellowship@sandia.gov.
Complete application information is available at:
Truman: http://www.sandia.gov/careers/students_postdocs/fellowships/truman_fellowship.html
Basil Hassan, PhD
Sandia National Laboratories
Email: bhassan@sandia.govOffice: (505) 844 - 4682
Mobile: (505) 238 - 4090
President - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), May 2020 – May 2022
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The Lin Lab at the NMVAHCS seeks a Research Scientist to assist with investigations into the relationship between the gut microbiome and human health. The Lin Lab focuses on the mechanisms that maintain a healthy microbiome, the exposures that drive the development of dysbiosis, and the secondary health outcomes resulting from dysbiosis. Primary duties for the Research Scientist will involve conducting independent research on host- microbiome (including bacteria and/or bacteriophages) relationship in vivo and in vitro.
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Education
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PhD degree in Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Neurosciences, or other biological sciences.
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Must have atleast 1-2 years of experience in working on host-microbes (bacteria and/or bacteriophage) relationship invivo and/or invitro. Experience in animal handling preferred. Some of the invivo techniques in rodents that will be utilized as a part of understanding host-microbiome relationship include but are not limited to: · Induction of gut bacterial dysbiosis: · Processing of stool for Fecal Microbiota Transplants (FMT) · Remediation of gut bacterial dysbiosis · Rodent behavioral tests · Fluorescent methods for visual analysis · Tissue analysis and microbiological methods
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Experimental Design · Conduct comprehensive literature review prior to experiment design · Develop evidence-based research procedures and protocols · Optimize protocols for highest chance of success while minimizing waste · Coordinate with lab members, and other collaborators, for multidisciplinary projects · Perform feasibility pilot experiments prior to full experiment
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· Collaborate with industry/academia to apply results of research and develop new techniques, products, and practices · Proper use of protocol specific/related techniques and development of novel techniques for use in experiments · Administration of typical biochemistry required for molecular biology lab research activities · Process biological tissues/fluids for molecular analysis using DNA/RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, qPCR, blot assays, ELISA assays, gas chromatography analysis · Document all lab activities in detail · Perform miscellaneous job-related duties relating to lab maintenance and organization as necessary · Maintain up-to-date administrative paperwork for animal work and grant funding
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Laboratory Knowledge and Skills
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· Prepare and process laboratory samples using established protocols · Generate novel protocols for lab from literature and pilot experimentation · Knowledge of specified laboratory solutions, materials, and media · Maintain quality, safety, and infection control standards · Collect data and accurately record and interpret findings · Ascertain related accreditation and certification requirements · Responsible use and maintenance of laboratory facilities and equipment · Knowledge of molecular biology and bacterial culture methods
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· Compile, organize, and analyze experimental data sets · Test statistical significance (T-test, ANOVA, Mann-Whitney, Tukey, etc) · Maintain and complete accurate data collection through source documents
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· Write and publish first author original articles or review papers in peer- reviewed journals · Provide assistance to laboratory co-workers and collaborators in the writing process (proofs, design, analytics, graphs, etc.) · Present study findings in the form of poster and oral presentations at academic conferences · Assist in writing research proposals and applying for grant funding
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In Search of Funding from the UNM Office of the Vice President for Research
Guide for Proposal Writing from the National Science Foundation
Guide for Grant Applications from the National Cancer Institute
Grant Writer's Seminars and Workshops
The Research Education Office has loaner copies of The Grant Application Writer's Workbook, contact SOMREO@salud.unm.edu for information.
Mailing Address
School of Medicine Research Education Office
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505) 272-1887
Fax: (505) 272-8738
Email: SOMREO@salud.unm.edu
Physical Location:
UNM Health Sciences Center (North Campus)
Reginald Heber Fitz Hall (Building 211)
Room B61