24 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tulane University, Louisiana, United States

The Huang Lab aims to understand the molecular mechanisms of liver cancer development associated with alcoholic liver diseases and non-alcoholic liver diseases. We are looking for a talented and motivated post-doctoral fellow who is enthusiastic about liver research and drug delivery for treating liver malignancy.  

The successful candidate who is a recent PhD graduate will be expected to conduct original research using cells and mouse models to study the molecular mechanisms of disease progression. The successful candidate will be expected to publish research results in peer-reviewed journals and present at national meetings. Preference will be given to those who have substantial experience in animal research and cancer as well as knowledge in molecular biology and drug delivery. 

Activities in the laboratory of Dr. Liya Pi will include animal experiments, mRNA and protein assays, and gene expression and silence, on research related to alcoholic and nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases. Candidate  will be involved in many activities that will allow for cultural exchange among faculty, staff and students.

A postdoctoral research scientist is sought for projects into small molecule activation in the McSkimming lab. A successful applicant will have outstanding skills in both synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry and the associated characterization techniques. Expertise in glovebox and Schlenk techniques is required. Experience in performing and interpreting ab initio quantum mechanical calculations is desirable. Proficiency in speaking and in listening comprehension of English is essential for consideration.

A one-year postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Department of Computer Science (CS) at Tulane University based in historic Uptown New Orleans. The position is renewable upon the job performance and availability of funding. Tulane University is a private Carnegie-R1 university and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU). New Orleans is famous for its diverse food and culture, Mardi Gras parades, and jazz music. 

The Asian Studies Program at Tulane University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate position that bridges divisions across Asian Studies and Asian American Studies. Special consideration will be given to candidates whose work directly addresses questions of race and racialization in transnational or globalized contexts. 

The Program seeks candidates with innovative research agendas, a commitment to undergraduate education, and experience in social justice and antiracist organizing. The associate will be affiliated with Tulane’s Asian Studies Program and assigned a faculty mentor. They will teach one course per semester and devote time to research and scholarly writing. This position is renewable for one year. 

Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary program housed in the School of Liberal Arts that draws on faculty across the School of Liberal Arts including Art History, Anthropology, Communication, English, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology in addition to offering language programs in Chinese and Japanese. Additional information on the School of Liberal Arts and its departments and programs can be accessed at http://www.liberalarts.tulane.edu/.

Applicants are invited to apply for a postdoctoral position in Department of Pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine to conduct NIH-funded research on assessing the role of Trpv4 channels in regulating lymphatic vascular function in health and disease. The laboratory utilizes microdissection techniques, pressure myography, and confocal microscopy to assess the function of isolated and pressurized lymphatic vessels ex vivo; and high resolution, stereo fluorescence microscopy to assess lymphatic vascular function in vivo and in situ. The selected postdoctoral research fellow will be required to have demonstrated experience working with animals (i.e., mice and rats). The postdoctoral fellow will independently conduct experiments to understand the extent to which Trpv4 channel activity contributes to the overall function/dysfunction of collecting lymphatic vessels in healthy controls, as well as in mouse models of diet-induced obesity and metabolic syndrome. Although some training will be provided, the postdoctoral fellow will be expected to perform microdissection of lymphatic vessels from rodents, imaging of intracellular calcium activity, in vivo imaging of lymphatic contractile function, molecular assays (e.g., PCR, western blot, etc), and preparation of single-cell suspensions for single-cell RNA sequencing. The candidate should be able to collect, analyze, and interpret data, compose manuscripts for publication, write and submit grants, supervise and train students, help with lab maintenance and ordering of supplies, assist with teaching Medical Pharmacology Problem Based Learning, and help with animal colony management.

This postdoctoral fellow position is aimed at supporting a junior scholar in the field of violence prevention, while also assisting the Violence Prevention Institute in carrying out many of our ongoing community-partnered research projects.

The Postdoc Fellow will conduct geographical, population health research related to violence prevention and health equity, prepares manuscripts for publication and other dissemination documents, conducts quantitative data analysis, and assists in qualitative data analysis and grant submissions.

The position will enhance the strengths of the VPI as well as the school and university as a whole, as we continue to conduct ground-breaking violence prevention research at Tulane and to disseminate the work for action and policy.

The Tulane University Economics Department and the Murphy Institute of Political Economy invite applications for a postdoctoral position to begin in fall 2024. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in economics by fall 2024. We are seeking individuals whose research areas are in health policy or health economics. The postdoctoral fellow would be supervised by a Tulane faculty member. The successful candidate will teach one course at the undergraduate level annually and is expected to participate actively in research, seminars and other activities at the Economics Department and the Murphy Institute. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis and accepted through March 31, 2024. The appointment is for two years only.

The Department of Mathematics at Tulane University invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar to work in the research group of Prof. Tommaso Buvoli (https://tommasobuvoli.com/).  Research topics include scientific computing, numerical analysis, time integration, and scientific machine learning. The postdoc will also teach up to one mathematics course per year.

The Section of Endocrinology at the John W. Deming Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine is seeking talented and motivated applicants with training and experience in epidemiology, population health biostatistics, bioinformatics, or the equivalent to join the research lab led by Dr. Yilin Yoshida. Dr Yoshida is an Assistant professor of Medicine at Tulane.  Her research program is centered on sex/gender-based cardiometabolic epidemiology.  One of her major focuses is to investigate mechanisms underlying women’s excessive risk of vascular complications in diabetes and identify and test intervention targets to improve diabetes management in men and women. 

This is a full-time position with a 2-year service/training period with the possibility for yearly renewal dependent upon performance and continued funding.  Candidates with research experience in cardiometabolic epidemiology are strongly perferred.  The fellow’s time will be devoted to data analysis, manuscript preparation, grant application support, and career development.

A postdoctoral position is available investigating genetic/epigenetic control of cardiac and vascular senescence. We are seeking a postdoc with a strong background in molecular biology, imaging, animal work, and biochemistry. Prior experience with laboratory mouse and rat models is required and experience with pig models would be beneficial. The postdoc will be responsible for projects involving cardiac fibrosis and senescence. Epigenetic regulation of fibrosis will also be a focus. Tasks include experimental design, animal model development, siRNA assays, data interpretation, and manuscript writing. Additionally, pre-planning projects, RNA isolation, quality control, qPCR, protein assays and quantification, Western Blot, cell culture, single cell and next-gen sequencing experiments, and immunocytochemistry-based assays will be completed during the course of the project. The postdoc will also assess new technology in this area as it develops and suggest/make protocol improvements.

We are seeking a post-doctoral fellow to join our lab which focuses on the mitochondrial function in cerebral microcirculation and brain.  The diseases we study are stroke, diabetes, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease.  The position primarily involves independently performing experiments (data collection and analysis), composing manuscripts for publication, as well as for presentations.  Expertise in performing experiments utilizing lab animals and cell-cultures is critical.   Therefore, the applicant is expected to have a background in cerebrovascular sciences.   

The post-doctoral fellow will work as part of a team comprised of faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate, and undergraduate students. Proven expertise in rodent surgical techniques (including performing surgeries, handling, and monitoring rodents), and two-photon imaging are critical.     Knowledge and experience of breeding and maintaining genetically engineered mice colonies are required. The postdoctoral fellow will be utilize various techniques including: administering anesthesia and analgesics to animals, blood collection, animal tissue dissection/collection, confocal microscopy imaging, and free radical measurements. Preference will be given to applicants with proven experience in research in vascular biology/physiology.

The Center for Translational Research in Infection and Inflammation (CTRII) located within Tulane University School of Medicine is seeking a hard-working and highly inquisitive postdoctoral researcher to join our team. The CTRII performs transformative research focusing on mucosal immunology and genomics to understand host resistance mechanisms in disease. Current projects include investigating sex-based differences in host responses to drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections and development of a K. pneumoniae vaccine.

Candidates will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing experimental protocols, data analysis and interpretation, and working with mouse models of disease. As a postdoctoral researcher in the CTRII, candidates will develop several skills in immunobiology techniques and gain experience in writing and presentation of scientific research.

The Department of Pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine is seeking applicants for a postdoctoral position focused on brain vasculature and mitochondria. Our research focuses on aging and Alzheimer’s disease, so we require applicants with a background in cerebrovascular sciences. The applicant will work independently and as part of a team with faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students at different levels.

We are looking for an applicant who has proven expertise in rodent surgical techniques, including surgeries, handling, and monitoring of rodents, as well as two-photon imaging. The applicant should be familiar with various approaches, including fluorescent microscopy, working with isolated vessels, immunofluorescence, western blot, and PCR. These should be demonstrated through the applicant’s peer-reviewed publications. The Post-Doctoral Fellow should be able to supervise and train students in lab techniques and experiments, assist with teaching Medical Pharmacology Problem Based Learning, and help with lab maintenance and ordering of supplies.  The applicant should be able to collect and analyze data, compose manuscripts for publication, and prepare presentations.   

The Department of Computer Science at Tulane University has an immediate new opening for a full-time postdoctoral fellow. The position will commence at an agreed upon start date and initially corresponds to a one-year appointment, renewable for up to two years.

The successful applicant will work with Prof. Nicholas Mattei and the Tulane Data & Artificial Intelligence Lab (TUDAI).  The applicant is expected to join the lab and work on research involving the theory and practice of artificial intelligence, using tools from algorithm design, game theory, machine learning, data science, and also exploring the impact of these technologies on society.  Applicants should be motivated to both join existing projects as well as propose new opportunities and directions.  The successful applicant will work with Prof. Mattei as well as graduate and undergraduate students in the lab.

The research in the lab is motivated by creating new systems and technologies and by educating others about the possibilities and opportunities of computer science.  The work leverages theory, data, and experiments to create novel algorithms, mechanisms, and systems that enable and support autonomous agents and/or humans to make better decisions both individually and in groups.  The goal of the lab is to advance the state of the art in algorithms and complexity; game theory and computational social choice; data analytics, data mining, and machine learning; and preference reasoning.  Current projects include building new algorithms and systems for reasoning with preferences and constraints; novel methods and mechanisms for individual and group decision making; integrating background knowledge into algorithms for decisions and recommendations; allocation and mechanism design; as well as studying the ethics and social ramifications of these systems in the real world.

The Biomedical Acoustics laboratory at Tulane University is looking for a postdoctoral research scientist with experience in biomedical / physical acoustics, medical device development / analysis, and/or machine learning. The successful applicant will conduct NIH- and DoD-funded research on drop-of-blood coagulation analysis by acoustic tweezing technology. This position is available as early as May 2024 and will remain open until filled. 

The Postodoctoral Fellow is required to manage data projects in the Tulane Center for Clinical Neurosciences. He/she will be responsible for the creation, updating, maintenance, quality control and filtering, validation, security and analyses of research projects databases; along with multiplatform system programming and provision of computerized reports as needed.  He/she will also be responsible for developing bioinformatics and data analysis protocols and pipelines, and assisting with faculty analytic projects with a variety of other study related tasks, in compliance with standard operating procedures and regulatory agencies guidelines.

 

The Postdoctoral Fellow is responsible for all aspects of data analysis, including cleaning, organizing, managing, and monitoring data as well as composition of tables and figures to convey results.  The He/She is responsible for writing reports, designing presentations and summarizing the findings from analysis. He/She assists with development of works for publication from study results, as well as compilation of any other research-related activities deemed necessary by the principal investigators for the success of the research projects.