The Marine & Environmental Biology (MEB) section of the Department of Biological Sciences in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Marine Metazoan Adaptation with an anticipated start date of August 2016. We seek a junior scholar with expertise in multi-cellular marine organisms who uses experimental methods to understand the adaptation of marine metazoans to environmental changes at the molecular, sub-cellular, organ system, whole-organism, and/or population level. Research areas of interest include but are not limited to physiology, development, genetics, genomics, biomechanics, and/or bio-physical modeling. The successful ca