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Postdoc opening The Thyme Lab (this is a grant funded postdoc position: zebrafish, neurodevelopmental disorders, and/or protein engineering)
The Thyme lab (https://www.thymelab.org/) uses zebrafish as a model system to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders. We also employ protein engineering techniques to build tools to assist with our zebrafish studies. Experiments will potentially utilize the following techniques, depending on the project: molecular biology (PCR, cloning), zebrafish genome-editing, zebrafish line maintenance, antibody staining, RNA in situ analysis, high-resolution imaging, biochemistry (protein purification), bacterial directed evolution, high-throughput larval behavior, drug screens, and transcriptomics (bulk and single-cell RNA-seq). Analysis of most data from the lab requires cluster computing, and postdocs will be trained in this area as well as in Python scripting or other languages if there is an interest or need.The Thyme lab is a unique environment, as it merges the divergent approaches of Dr. Thyme’s graduate work in protein engineering and postdoctoral work in zebrafish neurobiology. The lab is an ideal fit for a candidate with an interest in either area who wants to explore a new and different direction without risk, as the lab’s diversity offers the possibility of backup projects in both fields. For example, applicants could include a biochemist who wants to gain experience with a model organism or anyone with zebrafish expertise who wants to think more about the details of proteins underlying neurodevelopmental disorders. Applicants could also include someone with experience in a different model system, such as Drosophila or C. Elegans, who is interested in developing skills with zebrafish. Those who want to bring a new field to the lab are welcome to merge their graduate skills with zebrafish research and create their own unique brand. For example, someone with stem cell expertise could design a project that leverages the expertise in our lab but also uses iPSC neurons.The lab opened in July 2019, and Dr. Thyme has already been awarded several highly prestigious new faculty awards, including the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship and the limited submission Mallinckrodt Grant and Pew Biomedical Scholars Award. Research from the past few years (in preparation papers) includes genes that increase risk for autism and schizophrenia, unstudied proteins with domains of unknown function (the dark proteome) and likely neurobiological roles, and conserved alternative splicing events that are important to normal neurodevelopment. In the future, the lab is moving toward studies of intellectual disability and Down syndrome while also continuing our efforts to build new tools for improved drug screening and genome engineering. The majority of funding for this position will be coming from the development of new tools and drug screening to find compounds that can ameliorate phenotypes in zebrafish models of neurodevelopmental disorders, but we are open to continuing work on all of our ongoing projects. See grant description*: https://reporter.nih.gov/search/K-D1iICEFUWjpBFhZxCtAA/project-details/10472146*The second aim of building new tools (genome-editing and sequencing approaches) to measure neural development and activity in a high-throughput way is of high interest for a postdoctoral project.To apply or inquire further, please send a brief email of interest and CV, along with the contact information (email) of at least two references to Summer.Thyme@umassmed.edu
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A History of Making Vital Improvements - UMASS Medical School Milestones
1962: Legislation establishes University of Massachusetts Medical School
1970: First medical students begin classes in Shaw Building
1974: First class graduates 16 MDs
1979: PhD program begins
1986: Graduate School of Nursing opens
1986: PhD program becomes Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
1994: Graduate School of Nursing initiates PhD program
1998: UMass Clinical System and Memorial Health Care merge to form UMass Memorial Health Care
2001: Lazare Research Building opens
2002: Campus Modernization begins on the University Campus
2004: Graduate Entry Pathway Program established at the Graduate School of Nursing
2005: PhD Program in Clinical & Population Health Research established at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
2005: Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories opens new manufacturing and filling facility in Mattapan
2006: Craig Mello, PhD, Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, is awarded the Medical School's first Nobel Prize. Dr. Mello shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Fire, PhD, of Stanford University, for their discoveries related to RNA interference.
2007: Michael F. Collins, MD, is named chancellor and Terence R. Flotte, MD, is named dean of the School of Medicine.
2009: Groundbreaking for the Albert Sherman Center, a 500,000-square-foot research and education facility slated for completion in 2012.
2010: Ambulatory Care Center opens
2012: The Albert Sherman Center, a 500,000-square-foot research and education facility, completed and opens
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