BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Cell Signaling - Three (3) Positions - Tenured or Tenure-Track
Description:
The DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON announces formation of the new Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling under the direction of Professor Jan-Åke Gustafsson.
Recruiting into this center will occur over a period of three years, and it will ultimately be comprised of twelve tenured and tenure-track faculty with distinct but complementary research interests surrounding cell signaling.
The scientific environment at the University of Houston is excellent, especially in areas such neurobiology, structural biology, computational life sciences, and bioinformatics, and we envision that this new center will develop multiple areas of basic life sciences as well as its applications. In addition, the Center will be geographically located in new space close to numerous academic institutions and hospitals in the Texas Medical Center.
We now invite applications for tenured or tenure-track faculty at all levels in the area of bioinformatics and molecular biology. In this first round of hiring, we are emphasizing the following themes: Neurobiology of nuclear receptors, structural biochemistry of nuclear receptors, nuclear receptors and the immune system, and the computational and systems biology of cell signaling, especially with respect to nuclear receptors. However, we have considerable flexibility with respect to research areas, and will consider outstanding productive investigators working in other areas that are relevant to the goals of the center.
The successful applicants will also complement existing departmental strengths in neuroscience, developmental biology, cell and molecular biology and the mechanisms of transcriptional regulation. We are especially interested in recruiting middle level and senior level faculty with active externally funded research programs.
The positions require a Ph.D. and postdoctoral experience in appropriate areas of life sciences. Faculty in the center are expected to develop and/or maintain nationally competitive externally funded research programs and to participate in graduate and undergraduate teaching. The Department and the Center have spacious new laboratory space, well-equipped core facilities, and encourage research collaborations.
Application Procedures:
Submit curriculum vitae, a research plan, and the names of three references sent electronically as a single file to: cellsignaling@uh.edu.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received.
Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action:
The University of Houston is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.