Post-Doc Research Associate - Vaziri-Bowser labs
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. We need to extract substantive info: The posting includes: - Department: Pathology Lab Med - Research - 413804 (maybe not needed) - Position Type: Postdoctoral Scholar - Position Title: Post-Doc Research Associate - Vaziri-Bowser labs (but we don't repeat title) - Vacancy ID etc (ignore) - Full-time/Part-time: Full-Time - Temporary Hours per week: 40 FTE 1 - Work Location: Chapel Hill, NC - Position Location: North Carolina, US - Qualifications: Hiring Range Dependent on Experience and Qualifications (this is vague, not specific; we should not create Pay section unless actual numbers) - Proposed Start Date: not given? Actually "Proposed Start Date" line but no date. - Estimated Duration of Appointment: 12 Months - Position Information: paragraph about UNC etc. - Primary Purpose Of Organizational Unit: paragraph. - Position Summary: description of role. - Minimum Education And Experience Requirements: MD or PhD in a biological science or related discipline. - Required Qualifications, Competencies, And Experience: Experience in DNA damage and cell cycle fields. - Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, And Experience: list of knowledge, research methods, etc. - Skills: list of communication, data analysis, technical skills, project management, scientific writing, abilities. - Abilities: list (adaptability, independent work, problem-solving, collaboration, leadership, professionalism, goal-orientation) - The PIs will develop IDP etc. - Special Physical/Mental Requirements: none given. - Special Instructions: Minimum lab attendance is 9:00-6:00 M-F. Occasional late evenings and weekend days will also be necessary... Administrative work... done outside of these hours. - Quick Link (ignore) - Posting Contact Information: Department Contact Name and Title Cyrus Vaziri, Professor; email. - Postdoctoral Affairs Contact Information (maybe ignore as boilerplate? It's contact info but could be considered contact. However instructions: remove application instructions, but contact info maybe okay? It says "Posting Contact Information". Might be considered contact but not application instructions. However they said remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Contact info is not application instructions; but maybe we can keep as a
with contact. However they said "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." So we could include contact info in a
. - Equal Opportunity Employer Statement: remove (EEO boilerplate). We need to decide sections: About the role (maybe Position Summary), Responsibilities (maybe from Position Summary? but we have no explicit responsibilities list; we could treat Position Summary as About the role). Requirements: Minimum Education And Experience Requirements + Required Qualifications. Qualifications: maybe Preferred Qualifications. Skills: list of skills and abilities. Benefits: we have info about UNC offers postdocs comprehensive medical and vision coverage, paid leave, benefits and services that support professional development and a healthy work/life balance. Also mention "Postdoctoral Benefits and Services". So we can create Benefits section with that. Pay: we have "Hiring Range Dependent on Experience and Qualifications" which is vague; we should not create Pay section unless actual numbers. So omit Pay. Schedule: we have Minimum lab attendance is 9:00-6:00 M-F. Occasional late evenings and weekend days will also be necessary. That's schedule info. So we can create Schedule section with that. We also have Estimated Duration of Appointment: 12 Months. Could be included in About the role or maybe as a separate section? Not a standard heading; we could include in About the role paragraph. We need to preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details like the publications citations, collaborations, etc. We must not create sections with filler text. So we will create sections: About the role (maybe using Position Summary + Position Information + Primary Purpose?), Responsibilities (maybe not needed if we don't have explicit list; but we could combine responsibilities into About the role). However instructions: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can have sections: About the role, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Schedule. Possibly also "Details" for location etc. But we can fold location into About the role as a short paragraph. We must not repeat job title as heading. So we will not have heading "Post-Doc Research Associate". We'll use headings as per list. Let's craft:
About the role
... include Position Information paragraph, Primary Purpose paragraph, Position Summary, plus location, duration, hours etc.
But we need to avoid duplication. We'll combine. Let's extract paragraphs: Position Information (first big paragraph): "Be a Tar Heel! A global higher education leader ..." etc. Primary Purpose Of Organizational Unit: "Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians..." etc. Position Summary: "The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to join a collaborative, co-mentored research program between the laboratories of Dr. Cyrus Vaziri and Dr. Jessica Bowser. The successful candidate will investigate fundamental mechanisms of the DNA damage response ( DDR ), cell cycle regulation, and their implications for genome stability, cancer biology, and therapeutic response For recent related publications please see: Nat Commun. 2025 Aug 5;16(1):7214. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-62368-8. PMID : 40764480; Cell Rep. 2025 Jan 28;44(1):115104. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.115104. Epub 2024 Dec 20. PMID : 39708320; Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 4;15(1):1957. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45979-5. PMID : 38438348. This position offers the unique benefit of dual academic mentorship, along with industry-relevant experience through collaborations with the Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery ( UNC ) and the Metabolomics and Exposome Laboratory ( UNC ). These collaborations will provide the candidate with access to complementary expertise, resources, and scientific perspectives across multiple disciplines." We also have Minimum lab attendance schedule. We have Estimated Duration of Appointment: 12 Months. We have Work Location: Chapel Hill, NC. We have Full-Time, 40 hours/week. We have Hiring Range Dependent on Experience and Qualifications (skip). We have Proposed Start Date (no date) skip. Now Required Qualifications: "Experience in DNA damage and cell cycle fields." Minimum Education And Experience Requirements: "MD or PhD in a biological science or related discipline." Preferred Qualifications: list of knowledge, research methods, etc. Skills: list of communication, data analysis and statistics, technical skills, project management, scientific writing. Abilities: list of adaptability, independent work, problem-solving, collaboration, leadership and management, professionalism, goal-orientation and professional maturity. We could combine Skills and Abilities into a Skills section, but we have separate headings for Skills only. Abilities could be part of Skills or we could make a separate section? Not in allowed headings. So we can include abilities under Skills section as part of skills. Thus Skills section will include all those bullet points. Benefits: "UNC -Chapel Hill offers postdocs comprehensive medical and vision coverage , paid leave, and benefits and services that support professional development and a healthy work/life balance." Also maybe mention "Postdoctoral Benefits and Services" link but we can just include that sentence. Schedule: "Minimum lab attendance is 9:00-6:00 M-F. Occasional late evenings and weekend days will also be necessary to ensure continuity of experiments. Administrative work (e.g. online trainings and certificates required by UNC ) and data management and analysis will be done outside of these hours." We also have contact info: we could include as a shortafter sections, not as heading. We must not include boilerplate like EEO. Now produce HTML. We'll need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For Benefits we have a sentence not a list; we could still make a list if we want but not required. For Requirements we have two items: MD/PhD and Experience in DNA damage and cell cycle fields. Could be list. For Qualifications (Preferred) we have many items; we should list them. For Skills we have many items; list them. Let's extract Preferred Qualifications bullet points: - Knowledge Subject-specific knowledge: A strong base of knowledge in signal transduction, genome maintenance, DNA replication, cell cycle, and how these processes impact carcinogenesis and cancer therapy. - Research methods: Independence and expertise in designing experiments, collecting data, and performing necessary techniques. - Responsible conduct of research: Familiarity with ethical guidelines, regulations, and policies governing research. - Funding and publishing: Understanding the processes for securing grants and publishing findings in scientific journals. - Skills Communication: Ability to communicate effectively through writing (manuscripts) and speaking (seminars, presentations) to both specialized and broad audiences. - Data analysis and statistics: Proficiency with statistical software (e.g., GraphPad Prism) and strong analytical skills, ability to generate high-resolution publication-quality figures (e.g. using Adobe Illustrator). - Technical skills: Demonstrated expertise in state-of-the-art molecular biology, cell biology, genetic, and biochemical approaches required to study mechanisms of genome maintenance. This includes cell culture, DNA cloning, mutagenesis, expressing proteins in mammalian and bacterial cells, gene editing, protein biochemistry, imaging, flow cytometry. Ability to learn new techniques quickly and efficiently. Ability to troubleshoot. - Project management: Ability to multi-task, manage time, projects, and resources effectively. - Scientific writing: Ability to write manuscripts and generate high-quality figures. Note that some of these overlap with Skills section; but we can keep them as Preferred Qualifications. Abilities list: - Adaptability and resilience: The capacity to adapt to new research directions, technologies, and work environments. - Independent work: The ability to work independently, formulate and test hypotheses, and drive your own research. - Problem-solving and critical thinking: Analytical ability to identify problems and find effective solutions. - Collaboration: Working effectively in interdisciplinary and collaborative teams. - Leadership and management: Interpersonal skills necessary to manage a project, collaborate with others, and facilitate teamwork. - Professionalism: reliable, accountable, considerate, honest. - Goal-orientation and professional maturity: Understanding that this position strictly requires achieving research milestones and deliverables (manuscripts) that benefit the entire lab while facilitating your own professional goals. We could merge Abilities into Skills section as well, but we have to avoid duplication. Since Skills already includes communication, data analysis, technical skills, project management, scientific writing. Abilities are separate but we could still include them under Skills as they are also skills. However to preserve all info, we can include them under Skills as separate bullet points. Thus Skills section will include: Communication, Data analysis and statistics, Technical skills, Project management, Scientific writing, Adaptability and resilience, Independent work, Problem-solving and critical thinking, Collaboration, Leadership and management, Professionalism, Goal-orientation and professional