**Professional Research Assistant**

**Requisition Number:** 69124
**Location:** Boulder Colorado
**Employment Type:** Research Faculty
**Schedule:** Full Time
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**Job Summary**

A Professional Research Assistant Position is available in the Park laboratory in the MCDB Department at University of Colorado-Boulder. We study mechanisms of the proteasome, a molecular machine essential for cellular protein degradation. We recently discovered mechanisms of novel spatial quality control during proteasome assembly; see our recent paper by Das et al. Nature Communications, 2025, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58703-8 (https://apptrkr.com/get_redirect.php?id=6797897&targetURL=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58703-8) . This new mechanism involves evolutionarily conserved chaperones, including Gankyrin, a known onco-protein in humans. A prospective Profess...