Postdoc-Mitochondria and Innate Immunity-Watson Lab

The Watson lab in collaboration with the Patrick lab is hiring a postdoctoral fellow. Come join our supportive, collaborative, creative, and curious team of students and postdocs in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology at Texas A&M University, School of Medicine. We are dedicated to your success!

The Watson and Patrick labs take a multidisciplinary approach to probe the interface between bacterial pathogens and the host macrophage. Working in our labs, you will learn to integrate cell biology, bacterial genetics, immunology, biochemistry, and systems biology techniques to elucidate how intracellular bacterial pathogens modulate cellular innate immune mechanisms. Specifically, your project will follow up on a recent publication in Cell (Weindel et al. 2022), where we found that mitochondrial dysfunction drives gasdermin D-mediated necroptosis during inflammasome activation and Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

Our recent postdocs have been awarded prestigious national fellowships including:

• NIAID New Innovator Award for Postdocs (DP2)
• NIAID K22
• LAUNCH Career Award from the Parkinson's Foundation

Please apply if you are interested in:

• how altered mitochondrial function conferred by genetic mutations impact innate immune and infection outcomes 
• interplay between cell death pathways during infection
• the connections between infection, peripheral immune responses, and neuroinflammation.

For more information: http://thepatrickwatsonlab.com