Postdoctoral Fellow, Jan Lab - Parkinson's Disease

Responsibilities

• Lead Independent Research
• Contribute to Calico’s Core Mission
• Drive Scientific Progress
• Publish Work
• Collaborate and Communicate
• Engage in Professional Development

Requirements

• Self-motivated team player
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Comfortable working on complex problems
• Important contributions to science
• Proficiency in core scientific methodologies, analytical skills, and quantitative problem-solving
• Strong teamwork and communication skills
• Flexible and adaptable to shifting priorities
• Willingness to work onsite five days per week

About The Jan Lab

We are interested in understanding the causes of Parkinson’s Disease and seek to use this knowledge to identify disease-modifying targets. We collaborate broadly to integrate genetic, genomic and biomarker data from idiopathic PD patients to develop novel hypotheses and to guide the development of cellular and in vivo models of PD-related cell states in which we can test these hypotheses. We also develop and deploy a variety of functional genomics tools to interrogate these systems using both biochemically-precise phenotypic screens and holistic cell state screens based on representation learning of morphological and transcriptomic data.