Research Associate - Pouladi Lab

**Job Title** ------------- Research Associate - Pouladi Lab **Job Category** ---------------- Faculty Non Bargaining **Job Family Group** -------------------- Academic **Department** -------------- Pouladi Laboratory | Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine (Mahmoud Pouladi) **Job End Date** March 31, 2028 **Posting End Date** -------------------- December 12, 2026 **Note:** Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date. The expected pay (or pay range) for this position is between $76,128 - $90,000 per annum. At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career. The UBC Department of Medical Genetics seeks to be an inspiring and productive community of scholars; an outstanding provider of knowledge, technical expertise, and compassionate care for our patients; contributors to the scientific advance of our discipline; and a credible and respected source of information and advice to society at large. While focusing on areas of genetic medicine that we deem to be particularly important, we view diversity of approach and techniques to be an essential strength of our Department. We acknowledge that the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and its distributed programs, which include four university academic campuses, are located on traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of Indigenous peoples around the province. The Department of Medical Genetics at The University of British Columbia (UBC) invites applications for a fixed-term full-time Research Associate. Reporting to Dr. Mahmoud Pouladi, the successful candidate will hold an MD/PhD in Anatomy, Histology, or Pathology with a focus on neurobiology and 5+ years of postdoctoral experience and have: * At least 10 years’ experience in laboratory research involving mouse models. * Expertise in histology such as immunofluorescence staining, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridisation (ISH) labelling, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Golgi staining, dye tracing for anatomical brain connectivity mapping, whole brain 3D structure staining, clearing and imaging. * Animal husbandry and related skills such as weaning, tailing, mouse behaviour testing, perfusions, tissue microdissection, *in vivo* delivery in the nervous system, in utero electroporation, and stereotaxic injections. * Expertise in molecular biology techniques such as Western blotting, PCR, quantitative PCR, molecular cloning, Co-IP, and ChIP/CLIP. * Expertise with *ex vivo* / *in vitro* cell culture techniques such as organotypic brain slice culture, brain tissue transplantation, primary cell culture, cell line culture, transfections, and le