Postdoctoral Fellow: Social Memory & Neural Circuits

Mount Sinai Health System; New York (NY); On-site; USD 73,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Sinai Health System invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience within the Wu lab, focusing on neural mechanisms of social cognition. The role involves leading projects, designing experiments, and performing advanced techniques such as miniscope imaging, patch-clamp electrophysiology, and single-cell analyses.

Commitment to rigor and publication is expected. The project explores social memory, synaptic plasticity, and autism-related mouse models using multidisciplinary

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in neuroscience or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects and design experiments; perform experiments independently and publish results.
• Conduct social behavioral assays, stereotaxic surgeries, and miniscope recordings.
• Apply techniques in molecular biology, electrophysiology, and imaging to study social cognition.

Skills

Single-cell RNA sequencing

Patch-clamp electrophysiology

In vivo imaging

Behavioral neuroscience

Optogenetics

Computational data analysis

Education

PhD in neuroscience or related field

Tools

Miniscope recordings

Stereotaxic surgery

BIOBSERVE video tracking

Job description

Mount Sinai Health System invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience within the Wu lab, focusing on neural mechanisms of social cognition. The role involves leading projects, designing experiments, and performing advanced techniques such as miniscope imaging, patch-clamp electrophysiology, and single-cell analyses.

Commitment to rigor and publication is expected. The project explores social memory, synaptic plasticity, and autism-related mouse models using multidisciplinary