Associate Research Scientist

Columbia University's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute brings together world-class scientists across academic disciplines conducting pioneering research to transform our understanding of how the brain works – and gives rise to mind and behavior. The Institute fosters a collaborative and inclusive environment across 50 labs, advancing insights into human health by exploring how the brain develops, performs, endures, and recovers.

 At the Zuckerman Institute, we are committed to becoming a more inclusive, equitable, and diverse place of scientific discovery and supporting a culture of respect. Promoting diversity in science will help drive the transformative science  that can change the world. 

 Situated in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus, the state-of-the-art building offers an environment where the highest level of scholarly scientific research takes place on a daily basis, with the benefit of being located in the heart of New York, one of the world’s most vibrant and culturally rich cities.

In the laboratory of Dr. Richard Axel the incumbent will use genetics, molecular biology, and biochemistry to characterize molecular mechanisms of growth and spread of Wolbachia pipientis in its host Drosophila melanogaster. Wolbachia is an endosymbiotic bacterium belonging to the same class of bacteria as the mitochondrial ancestor, and it manipulates host cellular machinery to survive within eukaryotic cells.