A postdoctoral scholar position is available for a highly motivated recent PhD graduate to join the laboratory of Dr. Michael S. Kobor at the Centre of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia (UBC). The laboratory is broadly interested in the principles underlying the creation and function of distinct chromatin neighborhoods, focusing in particular on histone variants, their cognate chromatin-remodeling complexes, and posttranslational histone modifications.

A Clinical Research Fellowship is available for a medical graduate with an interest in neurology or psychiatry to work under the direction of Dr. Blair R. Leavitt, based in the Department of Medical Genetics and the Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine (associate) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. The work will be in the field of Huntington’s disease, which is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder. The project is a clinical translational project, and is suitable for those seeking a career in clinical neuroscience. The working environment is collective and multidisciplinary. Enthusiasm, ability to be self-organised, an enquiring mind, vision and good clinical skills will all be necessary. The candidate will need to have good computer skills and be able to pick up mathematical statistical concepts.

Immediate openings are available for post-doctoral scientists interested in the application of computational approaches to the analysis and interpretation of regulatory sequences governing human gene transcription.

The Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT) is seeking applications for Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellows in Pharmacogenomics research. Successful candidates will join the Canadian Pharmacogenomics Network for Drug Safety (CPNDS) to identify the genetic determinants of severe adverse drug reactions (ADRs).