- Hours / Pay Period: 80
- Benefits Eligible: Yes
- Remote worker: 100% On-Site
- Compensation Detail: $67,282 - $78,711 / year; Education, experience and tenure may be considered along with internal equity when job offers are extended.
- Schedule Details: Varies
- Union Job: No
- Area of Interest 1: Research
- Marketing Category 1: Post Doctoral
- International Assignment: No
- Overtime Rule: Salaried employee who does not receive overtime pay
Dr. Maliha Zahid's lab is seeking a Research Fellow.
Responsibilities for this post-doctoral research fellow will include:
- Working with novel cell penetrating peptides that target the lungs. We have a family of lung targeting peptides that target different cell types.
- Small animal (mouse) experiments including tail vein injections, organ harvest for ex-vivo IVIS imaging, cryoembedding, cryosectioning, immunostaining, and confocal microscopy.
- Setting up and performing routine lab procedures in support of lab goals, including cell/tissue culture, RNA extraction, qPCR, FACS experiments.
- Establishing two-and three-hit mouse models of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, perform echocardiography in mice, as well as perform RNA extraction for downstream RNA sequencing., etc. independently.
- Maintaining lab notebooks, updating protocols, summarizing data, and presenting at lab meetings, institutional seminars, and national/international meetings.
- Assisting with the upkeep of the laboratory including equipment maintenance and inventory and ordering of supplies/reagents.
- Assisting with manuscript preparation, submission, etc. as a lead author, and assisting with preparation of grants.
Qualifications
Must have a Ph.D. in a field deemed relevant by the program. Maior in biology, pharmacology, and biomedical engineering are strongly preferred.
Research Fellow is appropriate for individuals who have completed no more than one prior postdoctoral fellowship, at Mayo Clinic or elsewhere.
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