If you are interested in any of the below positions then please email Professor Mark Viant directly with a CV and covering letter for further details.
Postdoctoral Positions
Postdoctoral Fellow in Mass Spectrometry-based Metabolomics
We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow in Mass Spectrometry-based Metabolomics at Indiana University Bloomington to participate in an exciting, new collaborative project called PhyloTox, which seeks to identify the evolutionary origins of molecular toxicity pathways. Using transcriptomics and metabolomics data collected from a group of model species/cells exposed to a carefully selected suite of chemicals, biological insights will be drawn from the perturbation of entire genetic and biochemical networks via chemical ablation. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop a novel precision environmental health program to help solve the enormous environmental health crisis caused by environmental pollution.
For this position, we seek a postdoctoral fellow in Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics to focus on the application of metabolic phenotyping across a six model organisms/cell lines, applying primarily non-targeted LC-MS strategies. The post-holder will perform sample preparation applying manual and robotic approaches, LC-MS instrument maintenance and operation to acquire highly reproducible data in a high-throughput laboratory, and metabolite identification. They will contribute to study design and analytical method development in cutting edge, biomedical computational and statistical analysis.
The project involves working with several PIs and laboratories and, thus, collaborative skills and results-oriented project management are required. The position is localized at Indiana University Bloomington in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Department of Chemistry, Department of Environmental Health, and Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering. The position also includes a unique training opportunity under the guidance of Prof Mark Viant in the world class metabolomics facility of the University of Birmingham, UK (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/biosciences/viant-mark.aspx). This position will either be assigned to the Department of Chemistry or the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, whichever is the best fit for the successful candidate.