Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-13400-365

Title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Salary: 85,000

Department: Psychiatry

Physical work location: Hess Center, 1470 Madison Ave room 202, NY 10029

Name PI or Supervisor: Schahram Akbarian

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Administrative Contact: Abigail Polanco, Abigail.polanco@mssm.edu

Details of Research Project: CRISPRi for multiplexed microglial and neuronal promoter repression with focus on genes dysregulated after estrogen withdrawal and retroviral (HIV)minfection.

Technical Duties:

iPSC-based cell culture and differentiation techniques

transgenic line work

chromatin asssays

fluorescence-based cell sortings

computational genomics

Educational and other Requirements for the position: PhD in biology or related field

Experience Required: Grad student levels

Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project: Describe novel gene pathways for neuroinflammation