RESEARCH FELLOW

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plans

Paid holidays

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

Title: RESEARCH FELLOW

Employee Type: Fellows

Department: LSUNO Anatomy

Campus Location: ANATOMY

Job Summary/Basic Functions

The Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy seeks a postdoctoral fellow with a PhD in Physics, Engineering, Computational Neuroscience or a related field This individual will collaborate with Dr. Carmen Canavier on computationally intensive projects. One project involves modeling the local circuit in the medial entorhinal cortex with respect to theta nested gamma and grid cell activity and the other involves modeling the local circuit in hippocampal area CA1 with respect to cholinergic modulation and place field formation.
Required qualifications include excellent Python programming skills, proficiency in working in the Linux Environment, and proficiency in utilizing HPC clusters and SLURM scripts. Experience with Neuron and/or Netpyne Software Packages, large scale neural simulations and/or bifurcation analysis of the genesis of oscillations is preferred but not required.

Minimum Qualifications

Required Education: PhD

Required Field of Study: Physics, Engineering, Computational Neuroscience or a related field

Additional Information About Our School/Department

Comprehensive benefits are available to eligible employees and their dependents including health, life, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; generous annual and sick leave; 14 paid holidays per year; and an employee health primary care clinic. See following link for more details on our benefits offerings: LSUHSC, New Orleans - Benefits

Other employee benefits include a full-service credit union, wellness benefits featuring complimentary fitness center membership for employees and their spouses, employee assistance program, campus assistance program, and pet insurance option. More information about these benefits can be found on this webpage: Additional Benefits