Position ID: | Purdue University-Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering-POSTDOC [#18831] |
Position Title: | Postdoctoral fellow in optical super-resolution microscopy |
Position Type: | Postdoctoral |
Position Location: | West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States [map] |
Subject Areas: | Biomedical Engineering / Biophotonics Physics / Optics and Photonics |
Appl Deadline: | 2021/10/31 11:59PM finished (2021/06/21, finished 2022/05/07, listed until 2021/10/31) |
Position Description: |
Postdoctoral
positions are available at the optical
super-resolution microscopy lab, directed by Dr. Fang Huang at Purdue
University, Biomedical Engineering Department. The candidates are expected to
spearhead innovations related to one of the two areas of research focus:
1. Fluorescence nanoscopy through
tissue specimens.
2. Molecular resolution imaging of live
cells. We seek to develop unconventional ultra-high resolution
systems that synergistically combines ideas from engineering and physics such
as interferometric/4Pi single molecule detection (Cell, 166, 4, 1028-1040,
2016), applied statistics (Nature Methods, 10, 653-658, 2013; Nature Methods,
14, 760-761, 2017) and coherent pupil function (Communications Biology, 3, 220,
2020) to significantly advance the achievable resolution limit for fixed and
living specimens.
The
Huang lab also collaborate extensively with cell biologists, neuroscientists,
and chemists to tackle fundamental biological questions in areas such as
cytokinesis, epigenetics, neural circuits, and cell motility. We apply our
imaging technologies to reveal disease mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease,
autism, and cancer. A list of the group's recent work can be found here: https://www.fanghuanglab.com/publications.html. The
lab's research is mainly funded through awards from NIH, DARPA and BRAIN
Initiative.
The
applicant will have a PhD related to one (or more) of the areas in optics,
microscopy, applied statistics or signal/image processing. Experiences in
optical design and instrumentation, microscopy data analysis, or optical theory
will be helpful.
Inquiries
and applications (including CV, name/email address of 2-3 referees, and
reprints of 2 most significant publications) should be directed to: Fang
Huang, Ph.D. Assistant
Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University |