Postdoctoral Fellow – Epigenetics & Single-Cell Immunology

Baylor College of Medicine; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Baylor College of Medicine invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate focused on decoding how infection leaves durable epigenetic and transcriptional scars that shape long term immunity, inflammation, and lung repair.

This position combines single cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility, CRISPR-based perturbation, and deeply phenotype human cohorts to define causal mechanisms driving post infectious lung disease.

Qualifications

• MD or PhD in Basic Science, Health Science, or related field.
• No experience required.

Responsibilities

• Implements measurements of inflammation, host immunity, and cellular metabolism from ex vivo samples.
• Implements and analyzes single cell RNA-Sequencing, single cell ATAC-Seq, CITE-Seq, and related datasets.
• Explores organoid models of infection-induced lung disease risk.

Skills

Single-cell analysis

CRISPR perturbation

Bioinformatics

Epigenetics

Immunology

Education

MD or PhD in Basic Science

Tools

scRNA-seq

scATAC-seq

CITE-seq

Perturb-seq

Cut and Run

Job description

Baylor College of Medicine invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate focused on decoding how infection leaves durable epigenetic and transcriptional scars that shape long term immunity, inflammation, and lung repair.

This position combines single cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility, CRISPR-based perturbation, and deeply phenotype human cohorts to define causal mechanisms driving post infectious lung disease.