National Centers of Systems Biology
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Information is grouped by Center and the Centers are listed in chronological order with the oldest Center first
Center for Modular Biology (Harvard University)
The mainstay of the Center for Modular Biology is the Bauer Fellows program. The fellows are selected based on their ability, their drive to explore new fields, and their willingness to collaborate. Their backgrounds are in molecular and cellular biology, evolutionary biology, theoretical and computational biology, physics or chemistry. They are young researchers, usually straight from graduate school or a short postdoc in a different field, with full PI rights for a period of 5 years. They have daily contact with each other, and dedicated mentoring from the Center’s director (Murray), the director of the FAS Center for Systems Biology (O’Shea), and a formal mentoring committee whose composition is different for each fellow and always includes faculty from a variety of backgrounds. We made the Bauer Fellows Program the core of the Center for Modular Biology for several reasons: many of the best scientists in new fields like systems biology emerge at an early stage of their careers; the obligations of large labs, like university and community service, make it hard for many faculty to devote the concerted time and energy to an interdisciplinary program; the fellows’ youth and willingness to enter fields where they lack a track record make it extremely hard for them to obtain RO1 funding making a mechanism like the NIGMS National Centers for Systems Biology pivotal in ensuring its continuing success.
Center for Quantitative Biology (Princeton University)
The scientific goals of the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University require new approaches to studying the properties of living organisms. To promote innovation and creativity, the Institute provides very generous salary and research support for early career scientists at the beginning of their independent research careers. The intent of this program is to release these scientists from the requirement to raise their own grant support, and to encourage risk taking in their research. In addition, the Lewis-Sigler Fellows play an important role in the undergraduate teaching mission of the Institute, developing the laboratory components and running the precepts for the new integrated science courses. This Program is used to attract early career scientists to the Institute with diverse backgrounds and exceptional promise, people who will eventually populate the new interdisciplinary field of integrative genomics. They are largely drawn from the ranks of recent Ph.D. graduates, and conduct their independent research under the mentorship of the Institute. Appointments are for a non-renewable term of 5 years.
The Institute provides an exceptional, one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary environment and research funds for these term appointments.
Center for Systems Biology (Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle)
Accelerator Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Fellowship program provides hands-on education and training for ISB Postdoctoral Fellows, Graduate students or research scientists interested in entrepreneurial biotechnology and bringing emerging technologies to market. The program, in its third year, provides direct professional experience with technical and intellectual property due diligence, investment decisions about prospective companies, the start-up of a company, and working with existing start-up companies on scientific, technical, and business development problems. The Fellowship is one year long and is a competitive application process. In 2008 the program accepted only two Fellows.
Systems Biology Center New York (SBCNY)
SBCNY Postdoctoral Fellowships
SBCNY postdoctoral fellowships will support the training of postdoctoral fellows who conduct collaborative research between the laboratories of SBCNY investigators and non-participating faculty members. The projects must include integration of experimental and theoretical components and have a “Systems Biology” approach. Such fellowships will last typically one year, but in exceptional circumstances a second year may be considered.
Visiting postdoctoral fellows can spend up to three months at the Center. SBCNY will provide partial support for the visits to defray housing and living expenses. The goal of the visits will depend on the individual and can take one of two formats: a) develop the researcher’s projects with the complementary resources (either experimental or theoretical) or b) allow the researcher to participate in one of the ongoing projects within the Center.
Duke Center for Systems Biology
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Computational/Mathematical
Experimental Biology
The CSB welcomes applications for postdoctoral fellows to participate in the high-profile interdisciplinary research of the center. A fellowship will be associated to a center research project, and thus allow a fellow a chance to interact with more than one faculty member in a significant collaboration. Applicants are expected to be competitive candidates for future faculty or research positions at prominent universities and companies. Women and members of under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply. U.S. citizenship is not a requirement; however, international scholars should contact us before applying because of potential visa restrictions.
Chicago Center for Systems Biology
CCSB Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
The Center seeks highly qualified, doctoral scientists for postdoctoral fellowships sponsored by the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC), with support from The Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust. The Center is based at The University of Chicago with participating investigators from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Postdoctoral fellowships will be available to support work that studies the principles that transcriptional regulatory networks share as they respond to different types of environmental and genetic variation. Successful candidates will have a Ph.D and/or M.D with a strong publication record in genomics and molecular biology. Fellows will be required to identify a primary mentor among the Center core leaders. In addition, they will be encouraged to identify a second mentor who is affiliated with the Center at another CBC site in Chicago. In this way, fellows will serve as effective bridges between different laboratories and will help further the Center’s interdisciplinary goal.