Postdoctoral Computational Neuroscience Fellow

LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

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Job summary

LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans seeks a Research Fellow for a postdoctoral fellowship in computational neuroscience. Projects include modeling medial entorhinal cortex circuits and CA1 hippocampal circuits with cholinergic modulation, in collaboration with Dr. Canavier.

Required: PhD in Physics, Engineering, Computational Neuroscience or related field, strong Python, Linux, and HPC/SLURM skills; NEURON/NetPyNE experience is a plus and preferred but not required.

Qualifications

• PhD required in Physics, Engineering, Computational Neuroscience or related field.
• Excellent Python programming skills.
• Proficiency with Linux environments and HPC clusters.
• Experience with Neuron and/or NetPyne is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on computationally intensive projects modeling neural circuits in entorhinal cortex and hippocampus.
• Utilize Python, Linux, HPC clusters and SLURM to run large-scale simulations.
• Contribute to analysis and interpretation of simulation results; publish findings.

Job description

LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans seeks a Research Fellow for a postdoctoral fellowship in computational neuroscience. Projects include modeling medial entorhinal cortex circuits and CA1 hippocampal circuits with cholinergic modulation, in collaboration with Dr. Canavier.

Required: PhD in Physics, Engineering, Computational Neuroscience or related field, strong Python, Linux, and HPC/SLURM skills; NEURON/NetPyNE experience is a plus and preferred but not required.