Genetics - 423501

04/24/2024

Yes

Postdoctoral Scholar

Post-Doc Research Associate (Ahmed Lab)

PDS004190

Full-Time Temporary

40

1

Chapel Hill, NC

North Carolina, US

Depending upon experience

12 Months

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The AHMED lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral research associate. Our lab studies topics related to telomeres, epigenetic inheritance, longevity and cellular immortality using the nematode C. elegans. We use genetics, genomics, microscopy and biochemistry to address these problems. Human telomeres shorten in response to psychosocial stress, but how human telomere length is epigenetically regulated by or interacts with environmental stress is not understood. We are interested in studying dipeptide proteins are created from (TTAGGC)n telomere repeats present in TERRA, an RNA transcribed from telomeres, studying unexpected mutations present in nematode and human telomeres that may be under positive selection in wild nematodes. We are interested in studying a C. elegans telomere binding protein that is a major longevity transcription factor and in understanding the significance of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of high or low levels of single-stranded telomere binding proteins at telomeres. We are interested in characterizing a long non-coding RNA that regulates longevity pathways. We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join us to studying the interplay between telomere biology, stress response, and epigenetic inheritance. The postdoctoral fellow will also be expected to mentor undergraduate and graduate students, attend conferences and present their work, and interact with other members of the telomere, aging and human genetics fields. Dr. Ahmed encourages trainees to develop into creative, independent individuals who shape scientific fields by changing the way people think.

Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Genomics or other related field

The position requires significant wet or dry lab experience and a passion for experimental biology.
Have interest in bioinformatics or interacting with and collaborating with bioinformaticians.
Be collaborative, creative, and a team player.

Research experience in genetics, epigenetics, chromosome biology, RNA biology, genomics, bioinformatics, wide-field microscopy, indirect immunofluorescence, epitope tagging of endogenous genes.