Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-13400-365

Title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Salary: 85,000

Department: Psychiatry

Physical work location: Hess Center, 1470 Madison Ave room 202, NY 10029

Name PI or Supervisor:  Schahram Akbarian

Web link to Lab: https://labs.neuroscience.mssm.edu/akbarian-lab/

Web link to Department: https://icahn.mssm.edu/about/departments-offices/psychiatry

Administrative Contact: Abigail Polanco, Abigail.polanco@mssm.edu  

Details of Research Project: CRISPRi for multiplexed microglial and neuronal promoter repression with focus on genes dysregulated after estrogen withdrawal and retroviral (HIV)minfection.

Technical Duties: 

iPSC-based cell culture and differentiation techniques

transgenic line work

chromatin asssays

fluorescence-based cell sortings

computational genomics

Educational and other Requirements for the position: PhD in biology or related field

Experience Required: Grad student levels

Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project: Describe novel gene pathways for neuroinflammation