Postdoctoral position openings
Opportunities for postdoctoral research in biochemistry are available through individual faculty research awards or campus interdisciplinary programs. A few of the programs that offer postdoctoral fellowships include the Life Sciences Fellowships Program and the Interdisciplinary Plant Group. Several of the fellowships provide travel funds to attend meetings in the continental United States and Canada. Our postdoctoral fellows meet regularly as a group to present results and share information about techniques, recent breakthroughs, and position announcements. Candidates for postdoctoral research should directly contact the faculty member in their area of interest about the current availability of positions.
The University of Missouri is committed to cultural diversity, and it is expected that any successful candidate(s) will share in this commitment. MU is an equal opportunity/ADA institution and encourages applications from women and minority candidates.
The University of Missouri complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. If you have a disability and need accommodations in the job application process, please contact the MU ADA coordinator.
Applicants should send a list of faculty to whose labs you are interested, your current curriculum vitae and the names of two references to:
Postdoctoral Application
Biochemistry
117 Schweitzer Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
Submitting your application electronically is encouraged: biochemsearch@missouri.edu.
Faculty with ongoing postdoctoral opportunities
Dr. Lesa Beamer
Structural biology: X-ray crystallography of medically important proteins.
Dr. Susan Deutscher
Combinatorial biology applied to cancer detection and therapy.
Dr. David Emerich
Enzymology, physiology and genomics of biological nitrogen fixation and related metabolic activities.
Dr. William Folk
Gene expression and DNA replication of DNA tumor viruses; plant biotechnology and medical use.
Dr. Thomas Guilfoyle
Transcriptional control by auxins in plants; plant RNA polymerases.
Dr. Gretchen Hagen
Control of gene expression by plant growth regulators.
Dr. Mark Hannink
The BTB-Kelch substrate adaptor family in development, oncogenesis and neurodegeneration.
Dr. Gerald Hazelbauer
Transmembrane receptors and sensory transduction in bacterial chemotaxis.
Dr. Michael Henzl
Biophysical characterization of EF-hand calcium-binding proteins; protein-ligand interactions.
Dr. Dennis Lubahn
Biochemical genetics and epigenetics of estrogens and related receptors.
Dr. Thomas Mawhinney
Carbohydrates in cancer and bacterial infection; cancer prevention and treatment; host-pathogen interactions in cystic fibrosis; analytical methodologies.
Dr. Bruce McClure
Cell-cell interactions in pollen recognition and rejection.
Dr. Scott Peck
Proteomics of protein phosphorylation and protein kinases; signaling and secretion during host-pathogen interactions.
Dr. Brenda Peculis
RNA processing, RNA stability, RNA turnover, RNA decapping enzymes, snoRNPs required for ribosome biogenesis.
Dr. Michael Petris
The regulation of metal nutrition and impacts on common human diseases.
Dr. Thomas Quinn
Cancer diagnostics, radiopharmaceutical imaging and therapy; cell and molecular imaging.
Dr. Frank Schmidt
Combinatorial chemistry of RNA and antimicrobial peptides; the prebiotic RNA world.
Dr. Krishna Sharma
Structure-function of crystallins, role of ocular proteases and molecular basis for cataract development.
Dr. Grace Sun
Neurodegenerative diseases, Signal transduction, phospholipases A2, oxidative stress, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant botanical compounds
Dr. Chun Tang
Solution NMR, structural biology and biophysics
Dr. John Tanner
X-ray crystallography of proline metabolic enzymes, bacterial virulence proteins and anti-DNA antibodies; structural bioinformatics of protein-bound water; molecular dynamics simulations of biological molecules.
Dr. Jay Thelen
Proteomics and phosphoproteomics of seed development in oil seeds.
Dr. Richard Tsika
Transcriptional regulation in striated muscle during development, activity, and stress; transgenic mouse models.
Dr. Steven Van Doren
Structural biology: multi-nuclear, multi-dimensional NMR investigations of protein-protein interactions.
Dr. Shuqun Zhang
MAP kinases and signaling in plant defense responses.