From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Fri Dec 06 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!EATWORMS.SWMED.EDU!leon From: leon@EATWORMS.SWMED.EDU ("Leon Avery") Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: Postdoc Positions in the Avery Lab, Dallas, Texas Date: 7 Dec 1996 10:47:37 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 83 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9612071247.ZM3423@eatworms.swmed.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net POSTDOC POSITIONS IN THE AVERY LAB, DALLAS, TEXAS As a result of recent increases in funding, the Avery Lab at UT Southwestern has one or possibly two openings for postdoctoral fellows to study excitable cell function or behavior in C elegans. These positions are available immediately, and funding is guaranteed for three years. We are looking for creative, independent researchers who want to learn and who will be fun to work with. We don't require experience in any specific fields. If you're interested, send a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, preprints of any papers in preparation or in press, the names and addresses of three people who can supply recommendations, and a cover letter describing your research interests to: Leon Avery Department of Molecular Biology and Oncology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd Dallas, TX 75235-9148 Fax: (214) 648-1488 e-mail: leon@eatworms.swmed.edu For more information, see . The Avery Lab The Avery Lab () is the leading laboratory using electrophysiological methods to study behavior and excitable cell function in Caenorhabditis elegans. We concentrate on feeding behavior, mediated by the pharynx, a nearly self-contained muscular pump with its own nervous system. There are usually at least half a dozen open projects waiting for hands to do them. Some of these are particularly suited to postdocs, in that they are broad enough to serve as a basis for founding a lab of ones own. We are also interested in prospective postdocs who have independently thought up projects of their own, as long as they're broadly related to excitable cell function or behavior in C elegans. The lab is small (currently six researchers) and interactive. Lab members are expected to develop their own projects and work on them independently (which is not to say that you won't get lots of help and advice from your labmates, probably more than you have any use for). The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center A recent article in Science (29 November 1996 issue, ) described UT Southwestern as follows: "UT Southwestern has moved into the front rank of medical schools in the last several years ... and it's the only school to have done so in the last decade," says H. Maxwell Cowan, vice president and chief scientific officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland. An analysis of the average number of citations per paper published between 1980 and 1993--conducted by the Philadelphia-based Institute for Scientific Information--supports Cowan's conclusion. UT Southwestern came in second in biology and biochemistry, just behind Rockefeller University in New York City, and ranked in the top 10 in immunology, and molecular biology and genetics. Dallas Dallas is a young, active city offering low-cost living, the distinctive Texas state of mind, and the best barbecue in the world. The weather is unpleasantly hot for three months a year, pleasantly bright and sunny the other nine. If your peace of mind requires that you go downhill skiing once a week, Big D may not be the place for you. If you're tired of snowplows and Seasonal Affective Disorder, you'll love Dallas. -- Leon Avery (214) 648-4931 (voice) Department of Molecular Biology and Oncology -1488 (fax) University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd leon@eatworms.swmed.edu Dallas, TX 75235-9148 http://eatworms.swmed.edu/~leon/ .