Postdoc positions in Dr. Xiaolan Zhao’s lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is a world premier comprehensive cancer center committed to leading-edge research, superb educational programs, and exceptional patient care. The blending of research with cancer care is at the heart of everything we do. Our missions are to treat and control cancer, advance biomedical knowledge through laboratory research and training of scientists, physicians and other health care workers. We are located in the upper east side of Manhattan, within a vibrant community also comprising the Rockefeller University and Cornell Medical School. This tri-institutional area provides abundant collaborative, learning, and social opportunities and is the home to hundreds of US and international postdocs and their families.

Dr. Xiaolan Zhao’s lab in the Molecular Biology Program is seeking two postdoc fellows passionate about making impactful discoveries in the following research areas i) DNA replication, ii) homologous recombination, iii) SUMO– and checkpoint-mediated DNA damage response, and iv) Smc5/6-based chromosomal functions, and how studies of these inter-connected processes answer fundamental questions and sheds light on cancer, viral infection, developmental diseases, and genome instability syndromes. The Zhao lab is a leader in the above research areas, known for their pioneering discoveries of new pathways and mechanistic and structural principles of multiple genome maintenance processes, and the lab provides an excellent research and training environment. More details can be found at the lab’s website https://www.mskcc.org/research/ski/labs/xiaolan-zhao.

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