The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the aging brain is seeking a talented and highly motivated scientist to  start up and run an internationally competitive research programme on microglial biology in Alzheimer's disease. The scienist would be employing cutting-edge tools including multi-omics, organoids, integration with ongoing human clinical and neuropathological phenotyping, genetics and AI/ML interrogation of large publicly available multi-omics data sets curated at Columbia and elsewhere.

PhD or equivalent with two or more years experience in one or more of the following themes:

• experience in standard molecular and cell biology, live cell and fixed cell microscopy,
• experience generation of microglia from iPSCs or other sources;
• experience in microglial biology (appropriate functional output assays such as phagocytosis, cell migration);
• experience in building multicellular organoids
• experience in generating and analysing multi-omics data (transcriptomics, lipidomics and metabolomics) and spatial transcriptomics/proteomics;

· proven ability to work collaboratively within small teams.

Interested applicants must submit and application and a CV

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Pay Transparency Disclosure

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training.  The above hiring range represents the University?s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

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