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The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Associate Research Scientist in New York, New York
Dec 19, 2023
The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the aging brain is seeking a talented and highly motivated scientist to start up and run an internationally competitive research programme on microglial biology in Alzheimer's disease. The scienist would be employing cutting-edge tools including multi-omics, organoids, integration with ongoing human clinical and neuropathological phenotyping, genetics and AI/ML interrogation of large publicly available multi-omics data sets curated at Columbia and elsewhere.
PhD or equivalent with two or more years experience in one or more of the following themes:
- experience in standard molecular and cell biology, live cell and fixed cell microscopy,
- experience generation of microglia from iPSCs or other sources;
- experience in microglial biology (appropriate functional output assays such as phagocytosis, cell migration);
- experience in building multicellular organoids
- experience in generating and analysing multi-omics data (transcriptomics, lipidomics and metabolomics) and spatial transcriptomics/proteomics;
* proven ability to work collaboratively within small teams.
Interested applicants must submit and application and a CV
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran
Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.
Minimum Salary: 77000.00 Maximum Salary: 77000.00 Salary Unit: Yearly