Join us!
We're a welcoming place for everyone. If you're interested in any of the open positions listed below, please don't hesitate to email Hyun.
Research Associates / Laboraotry Technicians:
If you recently graduated from college in physics, engineering, or biological sciences and want to gain some research experience, we'd love to hear from you. Please feel free to email Hyun with your CV and a brief statement about why you'd like to join our lab. What kind of experience would you like to gain? Without any experience in doing experiments, you can still join and fluorish in our lab. We also welcome inquiries from those with several years of experience in research.
Postdoctoral positions:
We welcome applicants with a PhD in any field of science, including non-biological sciences (e.g., physics, math, computer science, bioengineering). We're looking for applicants who are excited about pursuing underexplored topics with quantitative approaches. We welcome theoreticians who have never done experiments and experimentalists who have never done mathematical modeling. Our lab provides opportunities to learn both experiments and modeling without having a background in either one, as evidenced by the successes of all our past trainees who came to us without a background in the papers that they ended up publishing. We look for collegial and open-minded folks who can "see the big picture" in projects and can both lead a project independently while also helping others in the lab. If you're interested, don't hesitate to send an email to Hyun with your CV. We look forward to hearing from you!
Joining as a graduate student:
We are seeking highly motivated students who are open minded, enthusiastic, collegial, and passionate about making discoveries with their own hands and do not mind exploratory (open-ended) research. No particular background is required. We welcome students from all backgrounds that include biology, mathematics, physics, engineering, chemistry, and computer science. We look for motivated students who are willing to collaborate with others and are excited by trying new things at the bench. We are a quantitative biology lab. Quantitative biology is nothing fancy or scary. It simply means that we perform experiments that yield numbers as data, rather than a simple "yes or no" (e.g., qPCR instead of gel bands). We then look for trends (relationships) between one set of numbers and another set of numbers. These relationships may reveal fundamental workings of cells and organisms that cannot be identified by thinking qualitatively. Having no background in quantitative skills is not a problem at all. During your time in our lab, you'll learn by doing (like every other trainee in our lab who came with no background and have succeeded or are succeeding now!). You don't need special math skills. The only thing that's important is logical and clear thinking, not math. You also don't need to be an expert in a particular biological system before you join. Learning something new - isn't that what grad school is for? Don't let what you did as a research technician or an undergrad dictate the rest of your (grad school) life! Ultimately, we aim to train students in qunatitative skills that are becoming more valued and necessary in the biological sciences. If you're interested, don't hesitate to send an email to Hyun!