Assistant Professorships in Systems Biology at Harvard University 
Harvard
University has a large and growing systems biology community composed
of faculty, fellows, and trainees, housed at several locations across
the Boston area. This year, faculty positions are available in four
locations. Applications
for positions at the rank of assistant professor (tenure track) are
especially encouraged, but exceptional candidates for associate
professor (untenured) positions may also be considered.
1. The FAS Center for Systems Biology (http://sysbio.harvard.edu/csb/ )
on the Cambridge campus has two positions available and is particularly
interested to hire in the field of microbial evolution & ecology
and the field of physical properties of biological systems, but will
consider outstanding candidates in other fields. Each
new faculty member will hold an academic appointment in a participating
department, such as Molecular and Cellular Biology or Organismic and
Evolutionary Biology. Access to Harvard facilities including the
Center's own Core Resource, the Center for Nanoscale Systems, the
Center for Brain Science, and the Broad Institute will provide
opportunities for collaborative research and technology development.
2. The MGH Center for Systems Biology (http://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/) has one position available. This position is a joint appointment with the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. The candidate will work in close proximity to MD and PhD scientists with strong research programs in human disease. He/she
will have the opportunity to establish collaborations with MGH
clinicians, and with researchers and technology programs at the Broad
Institute. Areas of special interest
include: how disease-causing mutations perturb cellular networks to
yield disease phenotypes; identification of network nodes that may be
novel drug targets; epigenetics and disease; gene-environment
interactions; using computational methods, quantitation, statistics,
modeling and analysis of large data sets to understand mechanisms of
complex disease, and to translate this understanding into new
diagnostic methods, treatments, or prevention strategies. Expertise at
analyzing (and/or generating) large data sets to investigate biological
pathways and networks, using model organism or human samples, would be especially welcome.
3. The Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School (http://sysbio.med.harvard.edu/ )
has two positions available. Special interests include systematic,
quantitative and/or theoretical approaches to the following biological
areas: variation in gene expression and function (such as variation in
transcriptional control, translational control, protein degradation or
protein modification); proteomics, particularly mass spectrometry;
human genetics and population genetics; pharmacology, physiology and
metabolism.
4. The Harvard Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (http://hibie.harvard.edu/).
This position is a joint appointment with the Department of Systems
Biology at Harvard Medical School. The special focus of this
recruitment is Synthetic Biology, i.e. using genetic engineering and
nanotechnology to build programmable self assembling materials,
biological factories or integrated multifunctional living microdevices.
The successful candidate will become a member of a new
interdisciplinary research institute composed of experimentalists,
theoreticians and clinicians from Harvard University, its affiliated
hospitals, and other academic institutions in the Boston/Cambridge
area. The Institute's central focus is research and advanced
technology development and translation in the field of biologically
inspired engineering.
Applications are due by December 1, 2008.
Please
submit a curriculum vitae, research proposal (≤5 pages), summary of
previous research accomplishments (≤2 pages), and PDFs of ≤3
publications to http://www.lsdiv.harvard.edu/csb/facultysearch/ . All files must be submitted electronically in PDF or Word format. During
the application process you will be asked to give the e-mail addresses
of at least three colleagues who have agreed to write letters of
recommendation for you. You will also need to state which position you
are interested in, or whether you are interested in more than one.
Applications
from, or nominations of, women and minority candidates are encouraged.
Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital are
affirmative action/equal opportunity employers
posted 2008.10.17
