Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-30040-174
About The Position
Department: Pharmacological Sciences Physical work location: Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1468 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10029 Name PI or Supervisor: Peng Yuan, Ph.D. Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Phone: 212-241-4486 Email: [email protected] Web link to Lab: https://labs.icahn.mssm.edu/pengyuanlab/ Web link to Department: https://icahn.mssm.edu/about/departments/pharmacological-sciences Administrative Contact: Yoori Kim, 212-6598651, [email protected] Responsibilities Details of Research Project: Research projects focus on structural and functional studies of membrane transport proteins that play central roles in physiology and disease. Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project: The goal is to apply multidisciplinary approaches, including electrophysiology, biochemical and biophysical assays, and structural biology, to advance understanding of structure and function of these essential membrane proteins at the atomic level and establish new foundations for rational therapies.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Biochemistry or related field.
- Membrane protein biochemistry and cryo-EM structure determination and analysis.
Responsibilities
- Duties include molecular biology experiments
- Purification of membrane transport proteins for structural and functional studies
- Structure determination of membrane transport proteins using single-particle cryo-electron microscopy
- Biochemical and biophysical assays to understand the underlying molecular mechanisms
- Analysis of these experimental results
- Participation in manuscript preparation and grant writing.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
