The Green laboratory at the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior is seeking a professional researcher to plan, coordinate, and oversee several projects related to the study of microglia in the healthy and diseased brain. The successful candidate will design and perform experiments utilizing colony-stimulating factor-1 receptor inhibitors to study microglial repopulation, the role of microglia in Alzheimer’s disease, and myeloid cell trafficking into the central nervous system. The researcher will collect and analyze immunohistochemical, biochemical, and transcriptional data, serve a leading role in the composition of manuscripts and work closely with the PI to assist in the preparation of grant proposals to funding organizations. The researcher will also present findings at major scientific conferences, provide subject matter expertise on myeloid cells and appropriate analyses, foster collaborations between other research teams, work closely with lab personnel and core facilities, supervise and train undergraduates, technicians, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers, and stay up to date on emerging findings in microglia and Alzheimer’s disease.
The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in neuroscience or a related field. Broad experience with diverse molecular biology techniques, including but not limited to immunohistochemistry assays, confocal microscopy, western blotting, animal husbandry and transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease, genotyping, library preparation and RNAseq, meningeal mount collection, and spatial proteomic and transcriptional analysis. Fifteen+ years of experience in Alzheimer’s and neurodegenerative disease research and associated transgenic animal models of disease in an academic and/or government research setting. Extensive expertise in myeloid cells and Alzheimer’s disease.
Interested candidates should submit an application at https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08856.
Salary range
A reasonable estimate for this position is $108,400 – $231,800. See Researcher Series – Represented Fiscal Year
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