The postdoc fellow will study epigenomic regulation of metabolism and neurocognition by circadian clock and physical exercise, including molecular mechanism of epigenetic drugs in treatment of cancer as well as epigenetic mechanism in transgenerational inheritance of metabolic traits, in the context of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and aging-related diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, heart failure, muscle atrophy, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease.

Job Duties

• Uses cutting-edge technologies and integrated approaches, include epigenomics, metabolomics, single-cell technique, bioinformatics, genetic animal models, molecular and cellular biology, metabolic tracing, sophisticated virus tools, neurobehavior, opto/chemogenetics, in vivo calcium imaging, and histology.
• Performs functional and phenotyping analysis in living animals.
• Prepares samples and perform validation studies for omics analysis.
• Performs bioinformatics analysis and data interpretation.
• Performs molecular biology analysis using primary cells or histology studies.
• Documents experiments to ensure that work can be replicated by others.
• Writes manuscript to report the findings or grant applications.

Minimum Qualifications

• MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.
• No experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in molecular biology, metabolism, epigenetics, bioinformatics, or disease models.

Baylor College of Medicine requires employees to be fully vaccinated -subject to approved exemptions-against vaccine-preventable diseases including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and influenza.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

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