Postdoc: Translational Neuroscience in Depression & Imaging

Columbia Psychiatry; New York (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) Department of Psychiatry in New York, NY invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral researcher in Translational Neuroscience. The project focuses on how genetic susceptibility and early-life experiences shape depression risk through integrating basic neuroscience, neuroimaging, genetics, and large-scale datasets.

The successful candidate will work with NIH-funded programs on hippocampal mechanisms in depression after early-life adversity,

Qualifications

• PhD or MD/PhD with graduate degree in neuroscience, epidemiology, psychology, genomics, bioinformatics or related discipline.
• Proficiency or significant experience with neuroimaging analysis, statistical genomics and/or bioinformatics including RNA sequencing.
• Strong statistical and/or computational skills; excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large human neuroimaging and genomic datasets.
• Integrate mouse and human post-mortem gene expression with human neuroimaging and genetics in large cohorts.
• Collaborate across neuroscience, genetics, epidemiology, and computational biology.

Skills

Neuroimaging analysis

Statistical genomics

Bioinformatics

RNA sequencing

Python

R

Education

PhD or MD/PhD

Tools

RNA-Seq tools

Neuroimaging software

Job description

Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) Department of Psychiatry in New York, NY invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral researcher in Translational Neuroscience. The project focuses on how genetic susceptibility and early-life experiences shape depression risk through integrating basic neuroscience, neuroimaging, genetics, and large-scale datasets.

The successful candidate will work with NIH-funded programs on hippocampal mechanisms in depression after early-life adversity,