Postdoctoral Fellow/Scientist I, Synthetic Spatial Omics (Imaging Technology)
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>Biohub is the first large-scale initiative bringing frontier AI models, massive compute, and frontier experimental capabilities under one roof. We're building a general-purpose system to accelerate scientific discovery, integrating frontier AI models, biological foundation models, and lab capabilities, with the ultimate goal of curing disease. Our technology powers scientists around the world, translating AI capabilities into tools that accelerate research everywhere.</p></div><h2><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 39); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Team</span></h2> <p>The <strong><a href="https://biohub.org/immune-cell-reprogramming/)">Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York</a></strong> is an independent nonprofit research institute that brings together three powerhouse universities - Columbia University, The Rockefeller University, and Yale University - into a single collaborative technology and discovery engine. Biohub itself supports some of the brightest, boldest engineers, data scientists, and biomedical researchers to investigate the fundamental mechanisms underlying disease and develop new technologies that will lead to actionable diagnostics and effective therapies. We are guided by our values of scholarly excellence; disruptive innovation; hands-on engineering/hacking/building; partnership and collaboration; open communication and respect; inclusiveness; and opportunity for all.</p> <p>Our Vision </p> <ul> <li>We pursue large scientific challenges that cannot be pursued in conventional environments</li> <li>We enable individual investigators to pursue their riskiest and most innovative ideas</li> <li>The technologies developed at Biohub facilitate research by scientists and clinicians at our home institutions and beyond</li> </ul> <p>Diversity of thought, ideas, and perspectives are at the heart of Biohub and enable disruptive innovation and scholarly excellence. We are committed to cultivating an organization where all colleagues feel inspired and know their work makes an important contribution.</p> <h2><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 39); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Opportunity</span></h2> <p>The newly established <a href="https://biohub.org/synthetic-spatial-omics/"><strong>Laboratory of Synthetic Spatial Omics</strong></a> at <strong>CZ Biohub NY</strong> advances our understanding of engineered immune cell function within their native microenvironment to design better cell therapeutic approaches. Toward this goal, we develop and integrate state-of-the-art immune cell engineering, imaging-based and sequencing-based multi-omics, and machine learning/AI frameworks. We bring together scientists with diverse expertise to pursue highly interdisciplinary scientific challenges.</p> <p>We are seeking an exceptional <strong>Postdoctoral Fellow/ Scientist I </strong>with a creative mindset to drive the development and application of next-generation spatiotemporal omics technologies that resolve immune cell state dynamics and organization. The successful candidate will develop and apply advanced imaging-based multi-omics technologies, integrate them with sequencing-based approaches and systems-level analysis, and use these platforms to measure cellular functions in situ, capture dynamic cell states, and id