J231301
Mentor: Dr. Martin Young, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
Postdoctoral Fellowship Description
A postdoctoral fellowship position is available immediately within the laboratory of Martin Young (Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Medicine). Research in Dr. Young’s laboratory is focused on understanding how environmental factors and behaviors, such as time-of-day, nutrition, and physical activity influence cardiometabolic health and disease. Regarding time-of-day, the laboratory is actively identifying the impact that circadian clocks have on metabolic homeostasis and cardiovascular function. Underscoring the importance of circadian clocks is the observation that genetic ablation of this transcriptionally-based molecular timekeeper results in obesity, diabetes mellitus, and cardiac disease. A broad objective of my laboratory has been to test the hypothesis that circadian clocks synchronize responsiveness of metabolically active tissues (e.g., skeletal and cardiac muscle, as well as liver and adipose tissue) to diurnal variations in the environment. Impairment of this molecular mechanism would therefore result in an inability of these tissues to respond appropriately to the onset of environmental/behavioral influences associated with light/dark, sleep/wake and fasting/feeding cycles. Many of our animal-based studies therefore involve both genetic (e.g., mutation/deletion of genes encoding for circadian clock components), environmental (e.g., enforcement of dietary and exercise regimes), and pharmacologic (e.g., targeting clock components) manipulations. The postdoctoral fellow would be integrally involved in these projects. The successful candidate should be highly motivated to work in this exciting research environment.
Interested candidates may submit their CV to Dr. Martin Young (
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