Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology

The Funabiki lab has opening positions for postdoctoral researchers who will be willing to execute projects related to chromosome segregation machineries and consequences of chromosome missegregation. We seek for those who are willing to pursue a wide-range of questions, from structural to systems level. Besides those who have background in mitosis and genome integrity, we also welcome those who come from different research areas but have training in biophysics, structural biology, cutting-edge imaging technologies, a large-scale sequence analysis, cancer biology or immunology. Applications can be sent via email to funabih@rockefeller.edu with CV, a summary of past research experience, potential future research directions, and a list of references and their contact information.

In studying cell division, scientists happened upon a new way of understanding how a chemotherapy compound works. The findings could make it possible to predict which patients are most likely to benefit from the drug.

The centromere region of chromosomes retains the same DNA from one generation to the next. Scientists have gained new insights into how it avoids being scrambled in normal cells, and how it becomes unstable in cancer.