Faculty Positions

Stellenbeschreibung

Faculty Positions for the Plants for Human Health Institute, NCSU:

The Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI) at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is seeking up to three new tenured or tenure-track faculty members to join a unique transdisciplinary research team. The PHHI’s research aims to pioneer a dramatic shift in the use of plant food crops, not just as a source of nutrients and calories, but as a source of bioactive plant components that protect and enhance human health. Integrated research in metabolomics, biochemistry, pharmacogenomics, breeding, molecular biology, postharvest attributes, and phytochemistry will be geared towards development of fruit and vegetable produce with pharmacologically-relevant levels of health-protective phytochemical complexes. The ultimate goal is to develop and characterize existing as well as new candidate crops with unique merit for human health and wellness. PHHI faculty seek to link discovery and translational research through a common focus and close collaboration between basic and applied scientists. To facilitate this unprecedented research agenda, PHHI faculty have full access to state-of-the-art facilities, base operating support, and in-house expertise supporting genomic, proteomic, nutrigenomic, and metabolomic research, and are expected to conduct innovative, highly competitive independent research, to participate in interactive team efforts, and to obtain significant external funding to support the research mission. At final capacity, the PHHI will house 15 T/TT faculty members and their research teams, along with relevant industry partners. The PHHI is one arm of an integrated research team being formed at the newly-founded North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis, North Carolina which hosts, in addition to NCSU, six other UNC system universities as well as Duke University. Currently we are inviting applications for faculty with research in the areas of Metabolic Pathway Engineering, Pharmacogenomics, and Systems Biology.

http://www.ncsu.edu/phhi/employment.html

1. Plant Metabolic Pathway Engineering. Research focus will be on plant metabolic engineering for biologically-active edible food crops, with emphasis on elucidation of novel biosynthetic pathways and regulatory factors, and manipulation of metabolic pathways especially for secondary metabolites.

2. Pharmacogenomics of Plant Products. A multifaceted research approach involving quantitative global RNA measurements, protein abundance, and metabolic activity will elucidate the mechanisms by which bioactive plant components provoke changes in mammalian gene expression.

3. System biologist. An interactive systems biology approach will be used to build and test predictive models of complex processes that impact on the health-related metabolites from plants.

Bewerbung

Faculty appointments may be at the Assistant Professor level or above. Senior appointees may be competitive for David H. Murdock Distinguished Professorships within the Institute. Successful applicants will have appointments in an NCSU department within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). The College of Life Sciences and Agriculture is one of the largest Colleges at NCSU with over 500 faculty distributed among 22 academic departments. To apply, please submit curriculum vitae, summary of current and proposed research programs, and contact details for 5 references to: Tara L. Vogelien, Director for Business & Research Administration, Plants for Human Health Institute, Tara_vogelien@ncsu.edu, 704 250 5400