美国访问学者：杜克大学癫痫研究方向招收博士、博士后、访问学者
该项目隶属于人类基因组变异中心，主要研究神经系统疾病的遗传基础，具体为脑组织癫痫的特发性和症状性，包括开发下一代测序和分析方法来检测的人类脑组织体细胞突变，并分析序列数据识别。申请者需要具备相关专业博士学位，并且拥有遗传学研究经验。
Job Title: Postdoctoral Associate
Job Number: 4013093
Date Posted: 08/08/2013
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
The Center for Human Genome Variation is seeking a highly motivated post-doctoral researcher to join an interdisciplinary research team studying the genetic basis of neurological diseases.
The Postdoctoral researcher will focus on the study the of idiopathic and symptomatic epilepsy conditions with a particular focus on brain-tissue specific perturbations mediating seizures. Research will include developing next-generation sequencing and analysis methods to detect somatic mutations in human brain tissue specimens, analyzing sequence data to identify somatic mutations responsible for disease, characterizing functional consequences of identified somatic mutations, evaluating genomic signatures associated with epilepsy or cortical malformations in brain tissue, and collaborating with an international consortium using next-generation sequencing to identify germline mutations responsible for epilepsy.
Qualified candidates must have a Ph.D. in Genetics or a scientifically related field.
杜克大学创建于1838年，是一所私立的研究型大学。杜克大学前身为三一学院。2013~2014年《美国新闻与世界报道》将杜克大学列为全美第8，世界第19。杜克大学图书馆藏书量列全美大学第3，仅次于哈佛和耶鲁。不同于其它顶尖的学术大学，杜克大学的体育，尤其是篮球十分有名并且是美国最佳的篮球名校。
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