Postdoctoral Scholars positions are occasionally available throughout the year in the Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine. These positions are under the sponsorship of the following faculty members:
• D. Aswad: Regulation of protein function and turnover by post-translational modification. Biochemistry of protein damage, aging, and repair. Protein phosphorylation and synaptic plasticity in the brain. Biochemical characterization of protein pharmaceuticals.
• H. Bernard: Papillomaviruses and cervical cancer
• M. Buchmeier: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of Emerging Viruses
• D. Camerini: Elucidating mechanisms of HIV-1, pathogenesis, determining the mechanisms of HIV-1 inhibitors and designing new methods of inhibiting the development of AIDS
• P. Casali: Immunoglobulin gene expression, somatic hypermutation, class switch DNA recombination and human B cell differentiation
• M. Cocco: Structural studies of proteins and DNA using NMR spectroscopy
• H. Fan: Molecular biology of retrovirus, immunology, cancer biology, gene therapy
• D. Fruman: Signal transduction, immunology, cancer, leukemia, kinase, microarray
• P. Gershon: mRNA transcription and modification
• C. Glabe: Amyloidal A-Beta peptide; self assembly; Alzheimer’s pathogenesis, species specific gamete recognition
• C. Goulding: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
• C. Hughes: Genes regulating endothelial cell tube formation/angiogenesis
• A. James: Molecular biology of insect vectors of disease, genetics of vector competence, malaria, dengue fever
• T. Lane: Multiple sclerosis, demyelination, inflammation, virology, immunology
• H. Luecke: Protein crystallography structure function studies of membrane proteins, Bacteriorhodopsin Annexin G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) structure based drug design
• R. Luo: Computational biology, protein structure, protein function
• A. McPherson: Microgravity crystal growth; X-ray and diffraction analysis of protein, nucleic acid and virus crystals; Atomic Force Microscopy studies of biological structures
• N. Morrissette: Microtubules, microtubule associated proteins and microtubule disrupting drugs in protozoan parasites using genetic, cell biological and structural techniques.
• T. Osborne: Regulation of gene expression by nutrient regulators; especially cholesterol and fatty acids
• T. Poulos: Protein crystallography, protein engineering, heme enzyme structure and function
• M. Ribbe: Assembly & Function of Metalloproteins
• I. Ruf: Mechanisms of viral oncogenesis, maintenance of viral latency and regulation of gene expression
• A. Tenner: Innate immunity; inflammation; complement; Alzheimer’s Disease; phagocytosis
• S. Tsai: Structural and chemical biology of multi-subunit enzyme complexes that make pharmaceutically important natural products
• L. Villarreal: Virus, viral, vector, cell, tissue, gene, research, cancer biochemistry
• C. Walsh: Immunology, apoptosis, signal transduction, T cells
Applicants for postdoctoral positions should send curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of three references to the contact information below.
