Calico
Postdoctoral Fellow, Jan Lab - Parkinson's Disease
South San Francisco, CA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 days ago
Computer VisionBioinformaticsResearchAnimal StudiesAnimal ModelsLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingPublic SpeakingAdaptability
About the role
- The Postdoctoral Fellowship is a fixed-term educational assignment (three years with a potential fourth year extension) with rolling start dates.
- Fellows will receive regular feedback and guidance from their mentor(s) and participate in a formal annual review process to review project progress and individual performance and provide career coaching.
- More information on our postdoctoral fellowship program can be found here.
Responsibilities
- Lead Independent Research: Focus on their own project(s), which should pursue new research directions with dedicated resources for innovative and potentially high-risk/high-reward research
- Drive Scientific Progress: Execute experiments meticulously, analyze data (including computational analysis if applicable) and troubleshoot procedures as needed
- Collaborate and Communicate: Actively collaborate across Calico's diverse teams and scientific community, including presenting progress and results to diverse audiences of computational scientists, lab scientists, and engineers
- We collaborate broadly to integrate genetic, genomic and biomarker data from idiopathic PD patients to develop novel hypotheses and to guide the development of cellular and in vivo models of PD-related cell states in which we can test these hypotheses.
Requirements
- Applicants who have already graduated must have completed their PhD within the past 3 years and not have been employed as a postdoc at more than one other lab/company since graduation
- While specific technical skills are project-dependent, proficiency in core scientific methodologies, analytical skills, and quantitative problem-solving is essential
- Strong teamwork and communication skills are required
- Technical Versatility (General): While specific technical skills are project-dependent, proficiency in core scientific methodologies, analytical skills, and quantitative problem-solving is essential
- Communication: Strong teamwork and communication skills are required
Nice to have
- Must have made important contributions to science in their area, ideally demonstrated by having had a meaningful first author paper accepted for publication
Skills
- The Calico Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- Postdoctoral Fellows are fully integrated into Calico's labs and community.
- Position Requirements
Compensation
- Professional Development: Engage with a community of other Postdoctoral Fellows and senior leadership through professional and career development opportunities, such as the annual Postdoc Summit, research-in-progress presentations, senior leader lunch sessions, and skill-building workshops
- The estimated base salary for this role is $95,000.
Benefits
- Education: Must have recently completed a PhD degree in a relevant scientific or computational field
- Adaptability: Must be flexible and able to respond quickly to shifting priorities, demonstrating a "can-do" attitude
Company info
- Calico (Calico Life Sciences LLC) is an Alphabet-founded research and development company whose mission is to harness advanced technologies and model systems to increase our understanding of the biology that controls human aging. Calico will use that knowledge to devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives. Calico's highly innovative technology labs, its commitment to curiosity-driven discovery science and, with academic and industry partners, its vibrant drug-development pipeline, together create an inspiring and exciting place to catalyze and enable medical breakthroughs.
- We are seeking ambitious early career scientists to join us in our mission to increase our understanding of the biology that controls human aging. This is a unique opportunity for individuals to distinguish themselves in aging research, deepen scientific training, and develop research independence.
- The Postdoctoral Fellowship is a fixed-term educational assignment (three years with a potential fourth year extension) with rolling start dates. Postdoctoral Fellows are fully integrated into Calico's labs and community.
- Calico (Calico Life Sciences LLC) is an Alphabet-founded research and development company whose mission is to harness advanced technologies and model systems to increase our understanding of the biology that controls human aging.
- Calico will use that knowledge to devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives.
- Calico's highly innovative technology labs, its commitment to curiosity-driven discovery science and, with academic and industry partners, its vibrant drug-development pipeline, together create an inspiring and exciting place to catalyze and enable medical breakthroughs.
- We are seeking ambitious early career scientists to join us in our mission to increase our understanding of the biology that controls human aging.
- This is a unique opportunity for individuals to distinguish themselves in aging research, deepen scientific training, and develop research independence.
- The program is designed to train individuals to become independent investigators in an academic or industry setting upon successful completion of the assignment.
- We are interested in understanding the causes of Parkinson's Disease and seek to use this knowledge to identify disease-modifying targets.
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