The Glycobiology Research and Training Center at UCSD provides many opportunities for graduate and postdoctoral training.   Postdoctoral candidates interested in working with GRTC faculty should contact the individual faculty members directly.  Aspiring graduate students must apply and be admitted to one of the Ph.D.-granting programs, e.g., Bioengineering, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Molecular Pathology, Neuroscience, Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Once in a program, interested students can rotate and eventually elect one of the GRTC laboratories for their graduate work.

The GRTC also sponsors special opportunities for advanced training in the glycosciences as listed below.

A program project grant sponsored by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health is available to study the functions of genes which regulate vertebrate glycosylation in hematopoiesis, immunity and vascular biology.  This research project utilizes the mouse as a model via transgenesis and Cre-loxP gene-targeting coupled to structural and functional studies.  Positions are available with the following GRTC investigators: