Postdoctoral Neuroscience Researcher - Memory & Plasticity

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PPO medical plan

Paid Time Off

Retirement Programs

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas seeks applications for multiple postdoctoral fellow positions to investigate memory mechanisms in the mammalian brain using molecular, cellular, or imaging approaches in animal models and human tissue. The successful applicant will be embedded in the Neuroscience community at UT Southwestern and OBI, with collaborations across the US and Europe.

This is a full-time postdoctoral fellow position in a neurobiology laboratory focusing on learning and memory

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Characterize synaptic and dendritic integration and plasticity in mouse and human hippocampal neurons using patch-clamp and imaging.
• Explore learning-related plasticity in vivo and in vitro through multi-omics approaches.
• Investigate memory mechanisms in mammalian brain with molecular, cellular, or imaging methods.

Skills

Patch-clamp recording

Slice electrophysiology

Cell culture electrophysiology

In vivo two-photon imaging

In vivo calcium imaging

Molecular neurobiology techniques

Education

Ph.D. in Neuroscience or related field

Tools

MATLAB

Python

Proteomics

Transcriptomics

Genomics

Bioinformatics

Job description

UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas seeks applications for multiple postdoctoral fellow positions to investigate memory mechanisms in the mammalian brain using molecular, cellular, or imaging approaches in animal models and human tissue. The successful applicant will be embedded in the Neuroscience community at UT Southwestern and OBI, with collaborations across the US and Europe.

This is a full-time postdoctoral fellow position in a neurobiology laboratory focusing on learning and memory