Job Opportunity: Immunology of Aging and Aging- Associated Diseases, National Institute of Aging, Baltimore, MD
Description
The Immunoregulation section, the National Institute on Aging, is looking for a highly motivated and ambitious young scientist to study the Immunology of aging and aging-associated diseases. This is an emerging scientific field with important clinical and commercial implications. As a unique and important niche, it will provide you with a fantastic opportunity towards your future. The Immunoregulation section has made significant advances in this exciting new field. It recently reported that aging converts B cells into potentially pathogenic, insulin resistance-promoting cells via targeting gut microbiota (Bodogai et al., Science Transl. Med., 2018); and B cells promote manifestation of Alzheimer’s disease (Ki et al., Nature Communic., 2021). Now we see that B cells also differentially affect cancer outcome in aged hosts. To elucidate the mechanism of this process and how B cells promote cancer progression and metastasis, we are are seeking an ambitious and highly motivated Postdoctoral fellow. The work will involve modeling studies in mice and use of latest tools, such as immune cell and microbiome sequencing, scRNA-seq, ATAC-seq, flow cytometric and immune fluorescent staining of murine and human tissues, and generation of novel recombinant proteins. For information about projects of the Section, please see our recent publications in PubMed or Google using keyword “biragyn”, and papers by Ki et al., Nature Communic., 2021; Bodogai et al., Science Transl. Med., 2018; Ragonnaud et al., Cancer Research, 2019; Chen et al., Nature Communic., 2022.
The laboratory is located in Baltimore, MD.
For information about the laboratory, please visit https://irp.nih.gov/pi/arya-biragyn.
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Qualifications
Applicants must have a PhD. and /or M.D. degree (or anticipate receiving their degree in the near future) with less than five years of postdoctoral experience. Applicants should have the ability to carry out independent research, a strong interest in interdisciplinary approaches and have published articles in peer-reviewed journals. Training in molecular biology, immunology, biochemistry, neuroscience and bioinformatics is preferred. NIH offers excellent salary and health care packages to its trainees and has consistently been ranked among the best places to work for postdoctoral fellows.
To Apply
Submit letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and references to:
Arya Biragyn, Ph.D., Chief, Immunoregulation section,
NIH/NIA/IRP, Biomedical Research Center,
251 Bayview Blvd, Suite 100,
Baltimore, MD 21224 USA.
Office phone: 410-558-8680
E-mail: biragyna@mail.nih.gov