We are seeking highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellows, PhD students and Research Assistants. If you are interested, please email your CV to further explore these opportunities.
Postdoctoral Fellow:
TBD
Graduate Students:
TBD
Our overall goal is to understand circadian clock regulation of immune function in aging and disease. The circadian clock functions to synchronize physiological mechanisms within an organism with the external environment to maintain homeostasis. The immune system relies on the circadian clock to anticipate changes in the environment so that is primed and ready to respond accordingly and appropriately to pathogens and injury. However, the ability to anticipate these changes declines with aging and increases the risk for disease. Our goal is to identify the mechanisms under circadian clock control that are impaired with aging. Our lab has a particular interest in metabolism and mitochondrial function, given that immune cells are strongly dependent on a homeostatic metabolism, which is also regulated by the circadian clock and declines with aging.