Position Summary
The department of Biology is a large unified department with strong undergraduate degrees nationally-ranked graduate programs and world-class research spanning the breadth of biological questions and experimental systems from ecosystems to microbiology and developmental biology from evolution to cell biology from molecular biology to systems biology bioinformatics and genomics. It is always an exciting time for Biology enormous advances in global genome analysis coupled with unprecedented developments in interdisciplinary research have made the 21st century the Century of Biology. For more information about the department you can find it here: About: Department of Biology: Indiana University Bloomington . The Dharan Lab in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral associate to work on HIV -1 related projects with minimal supervision. The primary goal of the lab is to characterize the role of nuclear pore complex machinery in mediating HIV -1 nuclear entry and subsequent downstream process that leads to productive viral gene integration. The goal of this position is to work on active projects to generate data for publications and to also generate data for external funding. The prospective candidate should be willing to work in a collaborative environment assisting graduate students supervising undergraduate students and presenting their work in shared lab meetings and outside meetings.