Job Description
To expand our team at CU Anschutz, Section of Developmental Biology, we are looking to recruit postdocs (fully funded positions). Our research aims to elucidate the mechanisms of cell fate determination in cardiovascular development and disease. As main paradigm, we study the developmental patterning of the lateral plate mesoderm (LPM), the elusive joint origin of the cardiovascular, blood, kidney, and limb lineages. A special interest are gene-regulatory mechanisms of congenital cardiac, endothelial, and hematopoietic disease. We study this biology using advanced transgenic approaches, gene-regulatory element discovery, CRISPR-Cas9-based genome editing, and light sheet imaging using the zebrafish as principal model. In addition, we have been developing leading transgenic and genome-editing tools for zebrafish to drive our research forward. Our work intersects development, evo-devo, and disease modeling projects that we pursue with a collaborative, interactive team.