<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt">Dear All,</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt">I am excited to announce a Postdoc opening in my newly formed group at UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). Ad is below.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt">Please spread the word, and kindly forward to potential candidates. Thank you!<br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt">Stay well, best regards,<br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt">Sarah<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt">The Shahmoradian lab at the UT Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center O’Donnell Brain Institute, Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases in Dallas, Texas, is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Scientist to apply cellular structural biology techniques and complementary methods to investigate the macromolecular basis of protein aggregation and membrane remodelling in neurons and mammalian tissues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial"><br>Main methods are cryo-focused ion beam specimen preparations, cryo-electron tomography and 3D processing/sub-tomogram averaging, together with correlative light/electron microscopy.<br> <br><b>Requirements:</b></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Ph.D. in life science or engineering (or due to complete within 6 months)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Demonstrated ability to have worked independently and in a team</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Track record with original contributions</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Prior experience with cryo-electron microscopy/tomography and computational processing techniques</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Machine learning experience is a plus<br><br></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Working environment:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt">Successful candidates will benefit from excellent infrastructure and growing resources available here at UTSW:</span><br><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Newly purchased Thermo Fisher Aquilos II cryoFIB/SEM equipped with both internal cryo-widefield and external Leica cryo-confocal fluorescence microscopes</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">2 Titan Krios cryo-electron microscopes with direct electron detectors, including one with the latest generation cold field emission gun and Selectris-X energy filter (other has Volta phase plate and BioQuantum energy filter)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Talos Arctica cryo-electron microscope with K3 direct electron detector and Volta phase plate</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Talos Glacios cryo-electron microscope with Falcon direct electron detector and Ceta-D camera</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Custom-engineered, super-resolution, light-sheet and cleared tissue microscopes</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">UTSW Whole Brain Microscopy Facility with several high-throughput microscopes including two state-of-the-art multi-photon microscopes with integrated precision vibratomes</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">UTSW Green Center for Systems Biology with ~25 isolated microscope development bays equipped with optical tables</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">UTSW Department of Bioinformatics with BioHPC, a high-performance computing and storage facility equipped with ~1000 CPU and ~120 GPU nodes connected to 50 PB of storage for in-house data analysis (All instruments have direct mounts to this computing infrastructure) <br> </span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">University highlights:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Highly collaborative and inclusive environment encompassing the entire spectrum of basic, translational, and clinical research</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Six Nobel Prize Winners and 25 members of the National Academy of Sciences</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Ranked No. 1 in the world among healthcare institutions in biomedical sciences (Nature Index 2019)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Several employee benefits including free health insurance for full-time staff, and excellent coverage for dependents.<br><br></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Living environment:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is home to:</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Top educational school systems in Texas and the nation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Dallas Arts District, the largest contiguous urban arts district in the United States, covering contiguous ~120 acres (0.5 square kilometer)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">“Deep Ellum”, the live music capital of North Texas and a hub for the performing arts from theater to comedy</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Several parks and lakes great for boating and camping</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Multitude of great dining and shopping options</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">Central location in the US, with easy access to major international airport and a smaller national airport</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial"><br>To apply, please email <a href="mailto:sarah.shahmoradian@utsouthwestern.edu" target="_blank">sarah.shahmoradian@utsouthwestern.edu</a> with your cover letter and CV.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"> </p></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><br><br></div><div id="m_6348299393516201403gmail-Signature" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px">---</p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:9pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(23,78,134)">Sarah Shahmoradian, PhD</span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;verti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