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 the developing vascular system. Some of our 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 networks, and what cues guide this patterning; studying how endothelial cells undergo morphogenesis into tubular vessels in vivo using high-resolution multiphoton imaging and experimental manipulation; and isolating novel vascular-specific mutants and studying the molecular basis for their defects.

The scientific environment, resources, and stipend support are superb. See http://dir.nichd.nih.gov/lmg/uvo/WEINSLAB.html for additional information.

Interested applicants should have a Ph.D. or M.D. and less than 5 years' postdoctoral experience. To apply, click on the button below, or 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 e-mail to flyingfish2@nih.gov, or via post to:

Brant M. Weinstein
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics
NICHD, NIH
Building 6B, Room 309
6 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892


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