Join our team

We will be open to PIBS PhD students for rotations starting September 2026.

To join our lab as a PhD student, you must first apply to the PhD Programs in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS) at the University of Michigan. Nicole can mentor students in the CDB (Cell & Developmental Biology) and CMB (Cell & Molecular Biology) programs.

We are not currently accepting undergraduate students in the lab. New opportunities will be listed here beginning December 2026.

To work as an undergraduate research assistant in our lab, you must be available for 8-10 hours during work hours (9am-5pm, Monday through Friday). Undergrads do not work on weekends.

A Research Fellow position is currently open, apply at U-M careers website: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/280086/research-fellow

Postdoc salaries at Michigan Medicine are identical to current NIH stipend: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/salary-cap-stipends

We are recruiting postdocs interested in joining the lab with complementary expertise in genetics, developmental biology, and/or cell biology. We are particularly excited to have expertise in heart or neural crest development for the lab’s future projects.

Open to current University of Michigan medical residents/clinical fellows. Email nedwar@umich.edu if interested.

We are happy to consider medical residents and clinical fellows interested in wet lab research and embryology principles underlying the development of the trachea and esophagus. We require a minimum 6 month commitment for a research internship/placement.