The Meriwether Lab in the Division of Digestive Diseases in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA seeks an advanced researcher for the Assistant Project Scientist position with extensive experience in lipid metabolism, high throughput screening approaches and cellular oxidative stress at the intersection of inflammatory disease and cancer/gut microbiome science. The candidate must have completed a minimum of 4 years of postdoctoral research and have additional research experience in the field of multi-omics for therapeutic target discovery with a deep understanding of bioinformatics and how these apply to global/high-throughput study of lipid metabolism. The candidate is expected to creatively initiate a program that studies distinct mechanisms of lipid metabolism and oxidative stress into the regulation of inflammatory disease and implications in cancer/immunity initiation and its progression. The candidate must be experienced with methods including and not limited to LC-MS based lipidomics and metabolomics, multi-omics data integration, high throughput screening of small molecules, and single cell/imaging approaches to the study of lipid metabolism. Experience in research pertaining to nutritional interventions to modulate inflammation and immunity will be considered a plus. The candidate must also be able to develop bioinformatic tools and workflows to analyze and interpret said data and use these to generate new ideas and hypotheses to move the project/field forward. The project will focus on identifying new mechanisms leading to inflammatory/immune regulation driven by lipid oxidation and metabolism in IBD, gut dysbiosis, and cancer. A Ph.D. is required.

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