Postdoctoral Positions

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, the Interdisciplinary Plant Group, and the Food for the 21st Century Nutritional Sciences Program. 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-Columbia is committed to cultural diversity and it is expected that 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-Columbia 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 you are interested in applying to, your current CV, and the names of two references to:

Postdoctoral Application
Biochemistry
117 Schweitzer Hall
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211

Submitting your application electronically is encouraged.
E-mail to biochemsearch@missouri.edu

Faculty with 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.