Postdoctoral Position Available

Study Blood Vessel Development Using the Zebrafish

National Institutes of Health

A postdoctoral position is available at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, to study vascular development in the zebrafish. The laboratory uses molecular, cellular, genetic, and transgenic approaches to study the specification, patterning and differentiation of embryonic blood vessels. Current areas of research interest include:

understanding how blood vessels are specified and differentiate as arteries or veins,
understanding how vessels assemble into reproducibly patterned neworks, and what cues guide this patterning,
studying how endothelial cells undergo morphogenesis into tubular vessels in vivo, using high-resolution mutiphoton imaging and experimental manipulation,
isolating novel vascular-specific mutants and studying the molecular basis for their defects.

Scientific environment, resources, and stipend support are superb. Interested applicants should have a Ph. D. or M. D. and less than 5 years' postdoctoral experience. Send a curriculum vitae, bibliography, cover letter with a brief description of research experience and interests, and the names of 3 references (with phone numbers) via email to flyingfish2@nih.gov, or via post to:

Brant M. Weinstein, Ph.D
Section on Vertebrate Organogenesis, LMG, NICHD
Building 6B, Room 309
6 Center Drive
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892.

NIH is an equal opportunity employer.

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