Postdoctoral Fellow - LIMBS Laboratory

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 63,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The LIMBS Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to lead analysis of neural data from rats performing a 3D free-choice gap-crossing task. The fellow will refine analysis pipelines, develop new statistical methods, and serve as a lead author on a manuscript prepared for peer-reviewed publication.

Responsibilities include maintaining the lab's behavioral and instrumentation infrastructure, mentoring graduate and undergraduate students, presenting

Qualifications

• PhD in mechanical engineering or closely related field, completed by the start date.
• Strong programming ability in MATLAB with significant experience working with large, multimodal datasets.
• Expertise with quantitative analysis of animal behavior and in vivo electrophysiology, especially hippocampal recordings.
• Expertise in statistical modeling for neural and behavioral data.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis of the neural dataset from rats performing a 3D free-choice gap-crossing task.
• Refine existing analysis pipelines and develop new statistical analyses.
• Prepare figures and draft the manuscript through submission and review.
• Maintain the laboratory's behavioral and instrumentation infrastructure and support students.
• Present at lab meetings and manage space and equipment upkeep.

Skills

Quantitative analysis of animal data

In vivo electrophysiology

Statistical modeling

Education

PhD in mechanical engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Job description

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first researchuniversity and home to nine world-class academic divisions workingtogether as one university.

Salary : $63,480-$100,000

Johns Hopkins University: Whiting School of Engineering: Departmentof Mechanical Engineering

Description

The LIMBS Laboratory, directed by Prof. Noah J. Cowan in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow. The applicant accepted to this position will primarily work with an existing neural dataset collected from the hippocampus of rats performing a three-dimensional free-choice gap-crossing task. The fellow will lead the analysis of this dataset and will be a lead author on a manuscript prepared for submission to a peer-reviewed journal. This includes refinement of existing analysis pipelines, development of new statistical analyses, figure preparation, and drafting and revision of themanuscript through submission and review.

The fellow will also contribute to general tasks around thelaboratory. Responsibilities include maintaining the lab'sbehavioral and instrumentation infrastructure, supporting graduateand undergraduate students on related projects, and presenting atlab meetings. Fellows are also expected to contribute to the sharedupkeep of laboratory space and equipment.

Qualifications

• PhD in mechanical engineering or closely related field,completed by the start date.
• Strong programming ability in MATLAB including significantexperience working with large, multimodal datasets.
• Expertise with quantitative analysis of animal behavior and invivo electrophysiology, especially hippocampal recordings.
• Expertise in statistical modeling for neural and behavioraldata.

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