Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Rongxin Fang

The Fang Lab of Neurogenomics (fanglabstanford.org) at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, is seeking postdoctoral fellows to join our team. We are looking for postdoc candidates to develop and apply cutting-edge technologies in spatial transcriptomics, single-cell sequencing, machine learning, and functional genomics to investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms of intercellular communication in the healthy brain and in tumor microenvironment (TME).

The major focus of our lab is to advance technologies including single-cell genomics, transcriptome imaging, optical electrophysiology, and machine learning to study how the genome builds a brain across spatial and temporal scales. Key questions we aim to address include:

1. At single cell level, how does the same genome give rise to thousands of different cellular phenotypes in the brain?

2. At the tissue level, how do gene networks orchestrate intercellular communication between different brain cell types?

3. In living cells, how do genomic variations influence cellular communication, behavior and dynamics?

The successful applicant will lead a project focused on developing single-cell sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, and machine learning algorithms to to understand, at the tissue and organ level, how specific cellular communications—from synaptic connectivity to neural-immune interactions—are synchronized by gene networks, how these processes malfunction in disease, and ultimately apply this knowledge to engineer cell communication for therapeutic purposes.