University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
POSITION DESCRIPTION
The Department of Pediatrics (http://www.pediatrics.ucsd.edu) and the Chavez Lab at the University of California, San Diego are committed to academic excellence and diversity within the faculty, staff, and student body and are seeking Assistant, Associate, or Full Project Scientists.
The Project Scientist will have a particular focus on diseases of the cerebellum working with several models of Spinocerebellar Ataxia, including performing studies to uncover the genes that are critical for Purkinje and granular cell survival within the disease context, and how cell-cell interactions are involved in the degeneration process.
The Project Scientist will be expected to conduct independent research in collaboration, as well as work on existing and new research programs in the group. In addition, the Project Scientist will work on the application of molecular biology, neuroscience, and functional genomics to the study of genetic regulators of cellular...