Postdoctoral Fellowship (Hearing Research Lab)
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Position Information
Posting Number | 201102731 |
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Position Title | Postdoctoral Fellowship (Hearing Research Lab) |
State | Wisconsin |
Employment Status | Full Time |
Position Status | Limited Term |
If Limited Term (End Date of Assignment, Project, or Grant) | 02/28/2022 |
Position Type | Faculty |
Job Family | Faculty |
Position Overview | Ongoing research involves work on collaborative NIMH/NIDA grants with Drs. Matthew Hearing and Robert Wheeler (Marquette) and John Mantsch (Medical College of Wisconsin) aimed at understanding how factors such as stress and biological sex contribute to opioid and cocaine addiction, and neuropsychiatric disease. Research focuses on using a multi-faceted in vivo and ex vivo approach to identify cell-type and pathway-specific neural adaptations produced by opioids, cocaine, and stress within cortical-striatal and mesolimbic circuits that underlie cognitive dysfunction, drug seeking, and changes in motivated behavior. |
Duties and Responsibilities | Experimental approaches center on coalescing use of fluorescent reporter and Cre-transgenic mouse and rat lines combined with circuit-specific viral targeting and tract tracing approaches in opioid/cocaine self-administration and chronic stress models. These approaches are used in conjunction with operant based models of motivation, cognition (flexible decision-making, compulsivity), ex vivo slice electrophysiology, in vivo chemogenetics and optogenetics, and in vivo photometric measures of calcium (GCAMP) and dopamine (dLight). Although candidates would be under the supervision of Dr. Hearing, mentoring from Drs. Wheeler and Mantsch will be available. |
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities | Earned doctorate (or its foreign equivalent) or appropriate terminal degree. |
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities | Candidates with a Ph.D. in neuroscience that are highly motivated, enthusiastic about learning in vivo circuit-based manipulations/assessments in models of addiction and stress and/or acute slice electrophysiology and have a strong publication record are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in any of the following areas: slice electrophysiology, chemogenetics/optogenetics, aforementioned rodent behavioral assays. Opportunities for additional training in these areas will also be available. |
Department | Biomedical Sciences |
Posting Date | 11/13/2023 |
Closing Date | |
Special Instructions to Applicants | |
EOE Statement | It is the policy of Marquette University to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable federal or state-protected classification. |
Required Documents
Required Documents
- Cover Letter/Letter of Application
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research Statement
- References
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