Our philosophy

It’s an exciting time to be a scientist, but it's also a time when long-tolerated misconduct and systematic bias against specific groups is finally being brought to light. In the Corbett lab, you and your ideas will be treated with the respect you deserve. Your development as a scientist will always be our #1 priority. Doing research for a living is a tough road, but we’ll walk it together as a team.

Graduate Student Positions

Prospective graduate students are encouraged to apply to either the UCSD Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry & Biochemistry, or Biological Sciences graduate programs at UCSD.

Post-doctoral Positions

The Corbett Lab is always on the lookout for exceptional post-doctoral fellows to reconstitute, characterize, and determine 3D structures of protein complexes critical for meiotic recombination and chromosome segregation. The lab has been highly successful in defining a unique research program in this space, as evidenced by recent publications in Nature, Molecular Cell, and eLife (see Publications). The lab has principally used mechanistic biochemistry and X-ray crystallography to date, and has recently expanded into single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, aided by the exceptional resources at the UCSD CryoEM Facility. The exceptional scientific environment at UCSD also includes significant resources for hight-throughput sequencing, mass spectrometry, and imaging.

The successful candidate will be highly accomplished and driven, and should have extensive experience in protein expression (in E. coli and other systems), purification, and ideally macromolecular structure determination. Experience in X-ray crystallography is a plus; experience with single-particle cryo-electron microscopy is particularly valuable. Exceptional candidates with experience complementary to our core skill set (especially including genomics and genetics in diverse model organisms) will also be considered. Post-docs in the lab are expected to compete for outside funding from both public and private funding agencies. Due to time limits on postdoctoral employment at UCSD, candidates should have no more than two years post-PhD experience when they apply.

Interested candidates should contact Dr. Corbett directly with a cover letter and CV.