Job Title:  Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Cardiology
Job Number:  4009531
Date Posted:  07/04/2011
Application Deadline:  Open Until Filled

Job Description
A Postdoctoral Fellowship Position Open in University of Texas Medical Branch

One postdoctoral fellowship position is open at Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB). Please visit our website for more information: http://bmb.utmb.edu/faculty/fujise/

If you are a postdoctoral fellow who graduated in or after 2007 and passionate about anti-apoptotic molecules, atherosclerosis, heart failure, or cardiac cells (macrophages, vascular smooth muscle cells, or endothelial cells), you are reading the right ad.

We are looking for scientists with following qualifications:
(1) US Citizen, Green card holder, or J-1 visa holder. We do not sponsor H1 visas.
(2) Earned your Ph.D. in or after 2007.
(3) Have strong (A) molecular biology or (B) KO-mouse expertise.

(A) Molecular biology experience. You must be very good at several of procedures listed below to a point where you can run your experiments “with your eyes closed”. It is preferable that you have had exposure to all of the procedures below.
* siRNA and shRNA,
* real-time qRT-PCR using Taqman chemistry (designing probes to assays themselves),
* tissue culture,
* immunoprecipitation,
* gene expression using plasmid/retrovirus/adenovirus/lentivirus,
* western, northern, southern,
* cell death/apoptosis assays,
* flow cytometry.

(B) Knockout mouse characterization. You must be very good at one/two of the procedures listed below to a point where you can run your experiments “with your eyes closed”.
* genotyping and phenotype determination
* coronary artery ligation, or
* trans-aortic constriction surgery

We are looking for scientists with following scientific interests
(1) Fortilin—anti-apoptotic molecule that is unique in every way (check out “fortilin” in PubMed to see what the molecule does in vivo).
(2) Atherosclerosis—hardening of the artery that kills millions of people each year.
(3) Vascular cells.—Macrophages, vascular smooth muscle cells, and endothelial cells.

We pledge to
(1) Help you anyway we can to successfully complete your projects and publish.
(2) Provide you with the most efficient and productive environment possible.
(3) Make ourselves available for discussion on planning of experiments and interpretation of data.
(4) Promote you to a next level if you do well.

Please apply via e-mails as soon as possible when:
(1) You have either required molecular biology skills or animal procedure skills.
(2) You have scientific interest on at least one of (1) – (4) above.
(3) E-mail must contain following information:
* Put “Postdoctoral fellowship application” on the subject line.
* Your scientific interests and qualification.
* Your visa status.
* When you can start in the lab here, if successfully selected.
* Year you earned your Ph.D.
* The e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of 3 references.
* The reason why you want to move.
Contact:  Dr. Ken Fujise
Internal Medicine
University of Texas Medical Branch
301 University Blvd
JSA5.106G
Galveston, TX 77555
United States
Phone: 409-370-8155
Email: Ken.Fujiseutmb.edu
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