Employment Opportunities

Employment Opportunites

Temporary Full-Time Position as Lab Manager/Research Assistant

The laboratory of Angelique Whitehurst PhD is seeking a temporary full-time lab manager/research technician to assist in the establishment of a research program in the Department of Pharmacology/Cancer Center.  The laboratory uses high throughput siRNA screening to identify genes required for tumor cell survival. The position requires an individual who is highly motivated, organized and a quick learner.  Enthusiasm and interest will override a lack of experience!
Duties include:

  • Ordering lab supplies/reagents/equipment
  • Receiving orders and organizing new supplies
  • Coordinating/Interacting/Negotiating with sales representatives
  • Creating organizational infrastructure for plasmids, cell lines, protocols and reagents
  • General laboratory administration (interfacing with EHS etc)
  • Routine experimental work: mammalian cell culture, molecular biology, western blotting etc (will be taught on the job)

Minimum Requirements: BS/BA in scientific discipline with some laboratory experience. Please send CV/resume + references to Angelique Whitehurst: awhit1@med.unc.edu. 

2 Postitions available in Molecular and Cancer Biology:

Postdoctoral Fellow
Full time Research Technician

The goal of our laboratory is to engineer transcription factors comprised of zinc finger DNA binding domains (TFs) to regulate specific genes involved in cancer disease.   Genomic approaches, including screenings of TFs from combinatorial TF libraries, are performed to identify genes and regulatory regions involved in tumor progression. Experience in molecular biology, tissue culture, or in animal models would be useful. Must be highly organized, possess both verbal and written communication skills, and willing to interact with other lab members.

Please send curriculum vitae and names of three references to:

Apply to: Pilar Blancafort, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Pharmacology
4009 Genetic Medicine, CB# 7365
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7365

pilarb@med.unc.edu

Phone: (919) 966-1615


The Siderovski laboratory also has current employment opportunities. Please consult the Siderovski lab webpage:

http://www.unc.edu/~dsiderov/opportunities.htm


Post-doc positions available in Zefeng Wang’s lab:

Highly motivated individuals are invited to join a newly established functional genomics lab.  The goal of our lab is to understand how splicing is regulated in a systematic level.  Our main approach is to collect a ‘part list’ of splicing regulation, and to further determine how they functionally interact to each other so that to assemble a set of general rules of splicing (i.e. the splicing code).  Both experimental and computational methods are used to identify regulatory elements of splicing in genomic scale.  Please see our papers (Wang et al.:  Cell, 2004, 119: 831-845 and Mol. Cell,2006, 23: 61-70) for the background and flavor of our research.

Experiences in biochemistry, molecular biology, bioinformatics, statistics or related fields are required.  Must be organized, possess good communication skills, and willing to explore new techniques.

Please send curriculum vitae and contact information of three references to:
Zefeng Wang, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Pharmacology
4009 Genetic Medicine, CB# 7365
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7365

I prefer contact through email:   zefeng@med.unc.edu

For information on job openings, please see the UNC-CH Employment Office .