Postdoctoral and Research Associate Positions Available

The Center for Genomic Sciences (CGS) at Allegheny-Singer Research Institute (ASRI) has multiple NIH-funded positions available for recent PhD graduates interested in pursuing exciting multidisciplinary research opportunities in a cooperative scientific setting. Successful applicants will work in a rich basic research environment located within a renowned clinical care facility. A unique blend of basic scientists and clinicians, the CGS faculty are all federally funded and include PhDs, MDs, and MD/PhDs. Postdocs will receive career development mentoring, learn grant writing skills, and have an opportunity for advancement.

Projects include: gene regulation during scarless wound healing; the molecular mechanisms of bacterial biofilm pathogenesis; host-pathogen interactions; human disease gene mapping, cloning, and modeling; and protein engineering for MEMs development for the production of self-diagnosing, self treating medical device implants. CGS pursues these projects using multiple integrated high throughput 4th generation robotic systems to accomplish: colony picking, plasmid purification; construction and analysis of DNA microarrays, SNP genotyping (Illumina Bead Station), robotic reaction set up and purification, capillary DNA sequencing and microsatellite analyses, genomic and cDNA library construction and arraying, Q-RT-PCR, SS-RT-PCR. Additional methodologies include RACE, bacterial strain construction, animal models, tissue culture, correlation of transcriptome analyses with proteomics, and CLSM and epifluorescent microscopic imaging. The systems are all connected by a dedicated LAN operated by a full time professional bioinformatics group.

CGS receives over $2.5 million annually in grant support, and has recently completed a very successful capital campaign to upgrade all of the research facilities, including the construction of a Molecular Imaging Facility that houses two state-of-the-art Leica CLSMs directed by Dr. Paul Stoodley.

Excellent salary/benefits available.  Send CV, 2 first author publications, and 3 letters of reference to Garth D. Ehrlich, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Genomic Sciences, ASRI, 320 East North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212.  We regret that we cannot support J1 visas.

ASRI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, women and minorities are encouraged to apply