Postdoctoral Fellow - Physiology

Job Title:

Postdoctoral Fellow - Physiology



Location:

Augusta University

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Job : 288159

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Location

Augusta University

Our Health Sciences Campus: 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30912

Our Summerville Campus: 2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA 30904

College/Department Information

The Medical College of Georgia Department of Physiology
¿ s focus is the framework of the body's cells, organs and systems, how they work, and how abnormal function leads to disease. The department is dedicated to outstanding research and excellence in education. Our federally funded scientists study some of the nation's top killers like cardiovascular disease and hypertension, and train independent, creative, productive scholars and PhD graduates, who publish in top tier journals and who are competitive for positions wherever they choose to go.

The department offers programs leading to the PhD degree. By virtue of their interdisciplinary training, the department's graduates compete successfully for positions in medical schools, universities, government, and industry.



Job Summary

This postdoctoral fellow position is a training position designed to learn, through engagement, at an advanced level of scientific, technical and administrative work in support of research efforts in a research lab. The incumbent will participate in research data collection and documentation within relevant guidelines and protocols; develop and evaluate new research techniques and procedures and perform a variety of complex biological, microscopic, surgical, and statistical/computational procedures.

The job also involves designing and conducting research projects, presenting at national/international conferences, and writing manuscripts.

This position will focus on completing the aims for Dr. Faulkner's project that is part of a recently funded AHA Strategically Focused Research Network on Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic Syndrome:
Heterogeneity in Women. Scientists in the network work in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment fostered by interactions across many science and medical disciplines. Studies related to Dr. Faulkner's project are approached with a translational perspective, utilizing transgenic and surgical mouse models of preeclampsia as well as human tissues/cell lines to determine pathways involved in hypertension and lipid biology. Experiments include functional measures of blood pressure and vascular function, mass spectrometry and lipid analysis, protein and mRNA expression measures as well as hormone, cell signaling and genetic analyses, among others.

The PI will closely work with the successful candidate for training in all of these aspects, and the candidate will be encouraged to apply for independent postdoctoral fellowship grants.

Responsibilities

The duties include, but are not limited to:

RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYSIS

Participate in project planning and development of research protocols and carry out experiments while ensuring adherence to accepted scientific…