Job Description
The Tucker Lab in the Pharmacology Department at CU Anschutz is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to carry out basic research in molecular and cell biology. The lab’s interests are at the intersection of cell biology, optogenetic and chemical genetic tools, and cell quality control during cell health and disease, with relevance to aging and neurodegenerative disease. The lab develops optogenetic and chemical cell biology tools to manipulate protein function, including tools to regulate protein assemblies. We are using these tools to study how cells maintain functional protein assemblies such as biomolecular condensates while preventing aggregation of protein components, how to therapeutically ameliorate dysfunctional protein assemblies related to disease states, and how to utilize protein assemblies for synthetic biology and optogenetic applications. For more information, please see: https://tucker-lab.org/