Postdoctoral Researcher – Laboratory of Max Wilkinson

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The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe.

Exciting Opportunity at MSK: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Wilkinson Lab

The Wilkinson Lab, part of the Structural Biology Program at MSK, is seeking a motivated, creative, and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Researcher to join our growing team. Our research focusses on discovering new reverse transcriptase-based biology in bacteria and eukaryotes. We do mechanistic biology, spanning bioinformatic discovery, molecular biology, biochemistry, and structural biology. There is so much cool RNA-based biology, and we’re excited by the question: ‘what else is out there?’

More details about our research can be found here: https://wilkinsonlab.bio/
 

This position offers an opportunity to work at the cutting edge of fundamental biological discovery.

Potential projects would include

• Discovery and comprehensive characterization of new reverse transcription-based phage defence systems in bacteria
• Discovery of the gene expression and/or translation mechanisms of eukaryotic retrotransposons, with a particular focus on how R2 retroelements impact/synthesise with ribosome biogenesis
• Original ideas from applicants are also welcome (but not necessary)

Key Requirements:

• PhD in a molecular biology or molecular biology-adjacent field
• Experience with some of the following (not necessarily all of the following – we welcome applicants who want to learn some of these skills):
• Structural biology
• Nucleic acid biochemistry
• Protein expression and purification
• Microbiology
• Cell culture and cell line creation
• Ribosome biology
• Kindness and curiosity

Application Instructions:

Please submit a C.V. with list of publications (if any), a letter or email describing why you are interested in this position, and contact detail for references (1 to 3) to:      

Max Wilkinson

wilkinm@mskcc.org

Pay Range: 72,000 – 90,000

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