Postdoctoral Positions

Department of Neural and Behavioral Science

Dr. David Liu

The Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Department of Neural & Behavioral Sciences is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral scholar who has research experience in molecular biology, cellular biology, or neurobiology, to study the molecular mechanisms that regulate survival and death of neurons and/or brain tumor cells.  The postdoctoral scholar will be responsible for designing and carrying out experiments for one of two projects.

The first project is to identify downstream targets of the E2F pathway using Affymetrix gene chips and to investigate how they mediate death in cultured neurons (Liu et al., G&D 19:719-32, 2005, and Liu and Greene, Neuron 32:425-38, 2001).  A second project is to study the signal transduction pathways that implicate ATF5 and/or Akt/Par-4 in the regulation of brain tumor cell survival. Cultured cells including glioblastoma C6 cell line will be used for initial studies.  Relevant work includes Angelastro et al, Oncogene 25:907-16, 2006, and Goswami, et al., Mol. Cell 20:33-44, 2005.

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Send CV, names of three references, and a letter describing research experience to: 

David X. Liu, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine
Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
M.C. H109
P.O. Box 850
500 University Drive
Hershey, PA 17033
Email: dxl39@psu.edu