Join us as we continue advancing science and healthcare. The Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine is one of the highest ranking in the world and we invite you to explore exciting career opportunities within our prestigious team.

Featured Positions

Tenure-track Faculty Positions

The Department of Genetics is recruiting investigators at all academic levels.

Individuals with research programs in any area of genetics/genomics are encouraged to apply. The department has historic strength in human genetics, model organism biology, epigenetics and gene regulation, technology development, and computational biology. The department is also home to the McDonnell Genome Institute, one of the largest academic genome centers in the country and a key player in producing the first human genome sequence, the first cancer genome sequence, several surveys of human genetic diversity, and the ongoing human pangenome project.

Job Openings

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Laboratories of Dr. Jeff Milbrandt and Dr. Rob Mitra

The laboratories of Dr. Jeff Milbrandt and Dr. Rob Mitra invite highly motivated candidates to apply for positions as joint postdoctoral fellows in the Department of Genetics and McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis. These fellows will develop research programs in Personalized Medicine aimed at revealing the pathogenic mechanisms of disease-associated variants via monitoring phenotypic changes of genetically perturbed iPSC-derived neurons and glia.

Research Specialist

Mitra Lab

This is a position in the Mitra lab. Our supportive environment values team work and provides a collaborative, highly productive and supportive scientific work environment. We seek a Research Specialist to design, conduct and oversee the aforementioned project. The successful applicant will have substantial lab experience, and sharp attention to detail is a must. This position offers superb opportunities for continued scientific learning, and continued career development including potential authorship. We are located in a recently renovated space in the Couch Biomedical Research Building.

Research Opportunities

Dougherty Lab

This is an exciting research opportunity in the Dougherty/Maloney Labs in the Departments of Genetics and Psychiatry. We are seeking a motivated scientist to join our team! This position includes an NIH-funded project aimed at defining the impact of genes associated with neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders on social behavior, learning, and decision-making.

Research Technician II – Genetics

Turner Lab

This Research Tech position, under the supervision of Dr. Tychele Turner, is an exceptional opportunity to contribute significantly to cutting-edge research on neurodevelopmental disorders. This role is focused on wet-lab methodologies specifically. This position not only promises a dynamic and stimulating work environment, but also offers a platform to make impactful advancements in the understanding and treatment of neurodevelopmental conditions.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Meers Lab

We’re looking for passionate, accomplished PhD scientists keen to take their research to the next level in one of the areas of our lab’s expertise. We offer competitive pay and benefits and a stimulating, collegial scientific environment optimal for academic, industry, or other career aspirations. Prospective postdocs should send Dr. Meers a CV with references, a brief explanation of their scientific/professional goals, and a description of how they envision a postdoc with our lab will help achieve them.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Laboratory of Dr. Jeff Milbrandt

We invite highly motivated candidates to apply for positions as postdoctoral fellows in the laboratory of Dr. Jeff Milbrandt in the Department of Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis.

Our primary goal is to unravel the mechanism of axon degeneration and its role in neurodegenerative disease. Many of our projects are pursued collaboratively with the Aaron DiAntonio lab and focus on how defects in NAD homeostasis alter disease progression in peripheral neuropathy, ALS and retinal degenerative disorders. One set of studies is aimed at determining how the NADase activity of the TIR domain protein SARM1 is regulated and how its activity influences downstream signaling pathways that control axon maintenance. Another area of interest focuses on motor neuron abnormalities that occur in ALS and in peripheral neuropathy.

 

Research Technician II – McDonnell Genome Institute

McDonnell Genome Institute

We are seeking an individual who wants to work primarily at the lab bench and in the cell culture hood with cell lines and doing stem cell differentiation for clinically translatable projects in functional genomics. Understanding cell biology, some molecular biology, genetics, and especially sterile cell culture is a plus. This individual will also be trained to run machine learning models and do analysis, so the more computational experience, the better.

More positions may be found on individual lab sites.