Postdoctoral Fellow

Job description

Van Andel Institute (VAI), a world-class biomedical research institute, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is dedicated to improving human health. We are pioneers in the fight against cancer, Parkinson's, and other diseases. We are committed to inspiring the next generation of scientists and educators. The Van Andel Institute (VAI) is seeking to hire a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Burton Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Nick Burton . This role will present the opportunity to take on a leadership role in managing a research project understanding why people with the same pathological genetic variant sometimes present with only mild disease while others present with severe and sometimes fatal multi-system disease – a phenomena observed over a wide variety of genetic disorders, particularly metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders. In the Burton lab, we propose that many cases of individuals developing only mild pathologies are due to either protective genetic variants elsewhere in their genome (genetic suppression) or due to protective molecules found in an animal’s diet or microbiome (environmental suppression). If true, we hypothesize that identifying these molecular mechanisms...