Postdoctoral Fellow in the Capellini Laboratory of Developmental and Evolutionary Genetics

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Title Postdoctoral Fellow in the Capellini Laboratory of Developmental and Evolutionary Genetics

School Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Department/Area Human Evolutionary Biology

Position Description
The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Evolutionary and Developmental Genetics Laboratory of Dr. Terence D. Capellini. The focus of the position will be to study the genetic and developmental basis of human-specific adaptations and disease.

The lab primarily concentrates on musculoskeletal adaptations in humans and primates, with an important research focus on identifying causal genetic variants that mediate human phenotypes. The lab uses a variety of experimental (functional genomic, targeted genetic) and computational (bioinformatics) tools on human and mouse tissues and using in vitro methods on human cells, to explore the consequen...