Positions
Available
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN COMPARATIVE AND INTEGRATIVE
PHYSIOLOGY AND NUTRITION
Two postdoctoral fellowships requiring a PhD or equivalent foreign degree
are available.
The first position requires a strong background in the fields of
nutritional and environmental physiology. Experience in aquaculture is
preferred. The successful candidate will study the effects of diets and
hormones on phosphorus levels in aquaculture effluents and on phosphate
metabolism by fish.
Developmental, molecular and regulatory biology. The second position
requires an expertise in molecular biology and physiological genomics and
will have two major responsibilities. The successful applicant will help
existing efforts to identify and characterize nutrient-responsive genes
that respond to phosphorus deficiency in fish, as well as
developmentally-regulated genes that respond to dietary signals in the
intestinal lumen.
The successful candidates will join a highly active laboratory with a
focus on two main projects. The first project funded by the US Dept. of
Agriculture aims to increase our understanding of the link between fish
metabolism and levels of phosphate in aquaculture effluents. Phosphates
from aquaculture wastes pose a serious threat to the aquatic environment.
The Principal Investigator collaborates with aquatic toxicologists and
aquaculturists from various state agencies and academic institutions.
The second project, funded by the National Science Foundation focuses on
gastrointestinal physiology, developmental physiology and membrane
transport. The successful candidates will join several clinical
faculty, two postdoctoral fellows, as well as several medical and
undergraduate students, and will therefore have ample opportunities for
an expanded research experience.
Salary negotiable depending on education and research experience. Kindly
send your CV and names, phone numbers, and email addresses of three
references before September 2003 to:
Dr. Ron Ferraris
Dept. of Pharmacology and Physiology
UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
185 S. Orange Ave.
Newark, NJ 07103-2714
fax: 973-972-7950
E-mail:
ferraris@umdnj.edu (no attachments please)
Posted 6/29/03
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