Join the lab

Potential graduate students should apply to the Department of Biology or Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

For UO undergraduates, research positions will next be available for the ‘25–’26 year.

For non-UO undergraduates, summer research positions may be sought through UO SPUR for Summer 2025.

UO and IMB

The University of Oregon is the public flagship of the state, with >23,000 students and major research programs across nine schools and colleges.

The Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) is one of the oldest interdisciplinary biology institutes in the world, integrating chemical and biophysical approaches to understanding the molecular basis of life. The breadth of questions and approaches within the IMB provide an enriching training experience for all.

We are members of the Oregon RNA Club, co-founded/run by David and Prof. Julia Widom.

Eugene

In this mid-size city of ~170,000 in the Willamette Valley of central Oregon, you'll enjoy easy access to amazing outdoors, a vibrant food and drinks scene, wonderfully friendly people, and a temperate, drizzly climate that supplies calming green surroundings, year-round. (Yes, it rains here, probably more than where you live right now. But spring to fall is dry and sunny and totally splendid.)

Unlike Boston, New York, and all major metro areas along the West Coast, the cost of living is sensible here.

Oregon

The drop-dead gorgeous Oregon coast (above) is about an hour west. The Cascades, with their fantastic skiing and mountaineering, about the same east. Popular mountains-meets-desert Bend a bit father east. If you get the itch for the larger urban jungle on your weekends, hip Portland is just two hours north. Come live the good life. 

Other notable research institutions in Oregon include Oregon State University in Corvallis, and Oregon Health Sciences University and the Pacific Northwest Cryo-EM Center in Portland.