JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Postdoctoral Researcher

Salary: $73588/year

Department: Women’s Biomedical Research Institute

Physical work location: Annenberg Building, 1468 Madison Avenue, 24-16

Name PI or Supervisor: Michal Elovitz, MD

Web link to Lab: https://icahn.mssm.edu/research/womens-biomedical/labs

Web link to Department: https://icahn.mssm.edu/research/womens-biomedical

Details of Research Project:

You will participate in research studies aimed at understanding how microbes interact and traffic in the reproductive tract contributing to health and disease. Your main responsibilities in this research are to design, implement and execute high level research that serves to address the broad aims of the research outlined in the NIH sponsored research in Dr. Elovitz’s research laboratory. Specifically, your research is focused on the interaction of vaginal microbes with epithelial and immune cells, trafficking and functional impact of microbes and their by-products and investigating therapeutic strategies to targeting microbial-cellular interactions in the reproductive tract.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Duties:

• Perform revelant non-pregnant and pregnant animal models including survival surgery

• Execute various in vitro experimental models including but not limited to immune and epithelial cell lines and 2D and 3D models system

• Analyze RNA sequencing data and other ‘omic analyses as required for project completion

Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project:

Perform and publish independent research investigating microbe-host interactions in the reproductive tract and their contribution to health and disease

QUALIFICATIONS

Educational and other Requirements for the position: PhD in molecular biology, microbiology, genetics, immunology or other relevant field

Experience Required: At least 4-6 years performing related research (during PhD)

This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement between the ISMMS and the Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee - UAW.

Wages and benefits: See Article 5 and 13 of The collective bargaining agreement found online at https://sinaipostdocunion.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/12-17-23-SPOC-UAW-_-Mount-Sinai-Tentative-Agreement-FINAL-PDF.pdf .

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SPOC-UAW Local 4100 at Icahn School of Medicine (Post Docs), J21 - Women's Biomedical Research Institute - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine

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The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Requisition ID : 3017131