<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="">Job opening in</span><u class=""> UC Berkeley Myopia Research group</u>: Post doctoral fellowship to work on animal-based research into eye growth regulation and myopia, and specifically, the role of sex hormones, with optical, molecular, and physiological tools applied to understand underlying mechanisms. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class="">The research of our group </span>is wide ranging and <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class="">multidisciplinary, encompassing</span> basic and applied research and involving but not limited to studies using in vitro cell and tissue cultures, animal models (chicks and guinea pigs) and human subjects, with on-going collaborations both within and outside UC Berkeley. </div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">One post doctoral fellow is sought to join an on-going project addressing the question of why human females appear more susceptible to myopia than males. The chick model of myopia is being used to investigate the role of local and circulating sex hormones in eye growth regulation. Applied tools include LC-MS/MS, real time PCR, western blotting and immunohistochemistry. The initial appointment will be for 12 months, with the potential to extend, funding permitting.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="">Requirements</span>:</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">- Highly motivated and good team player.</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">- PhD degree with molecular biology or biochemistry emphasis, with relevant publication record.</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">- Experience with real-time PCR, western blotting and basis histology essential; experience with working with small animal models, LC-MS/MS and micro-dissection preferable.</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">- Experience with biometric ocular evaluations, such as ocular biometry, desirable.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class="">Application instructions</span>:</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Please send your CV, accompanied by a cover letter, which includes the name and contact information of at least one reference writer, to <a href="mailto:martin.humenberger@naverlabs.com" class="">wildsoet@berkeley.edu</a>.</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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