Postdoctoral Research Associate – Heinzen Lab

About the role

The Heinzen laboratory in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is looking to immediately fill multiple postdoctoral fellowship positions to study the genetic and genomic bases of epilepsy conditions with a particular focus on brain-tissue specific genetic variants mediating seizures.

Responsibilities

• Optimize and implement cutting-edge genomic analyses, including but not limited to long-read sequencing, whole genome sequencing, single cell sequencing, and chromatin conformation capture techniques, to detect somatic and germline genetic variants mutations brain tissue specimens responsible for epilepsy.
• Develop novel approaches to analyzing the genomic data generated.
• Depending on expertise and interest, the applicant could have opportunities functionally characterize epilepsy associated variants in vitro in cellular models.

Requirements

The position requires a Ph.D. in human genetics, bioinformatics, computational biology, or related field, and a publication record demonstrating research productivity.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication, organization, writing, and willingness to be part of collaborative team science skills are also essential.

Skills

Not specified.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$52,000 - $60,000

Schedule

Full Time