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Northwestern Department of Neurological Surgery · 16 hours ago

Postdoctoral Research Opportunity – Electrophysiology, Modern Circuit Interrogation Approaches, and/or Mouse Behavior

positionChicago, IL
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level

Northwestern Department of Neurological Surgery is seeking a postdoctoral research trainee/assistant to join the Mark Bevan Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience. The role focuses on understanding basal ganglia microcircuits and developing therapies for Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases using various experimental approaches.

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Responsibilities

Understand how basal ganglia microcircuits regulate movement, affect, and cognition
Investigate aspects of basal ganglia circuit dysfunction underlying the symptomatic expression of Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease
Use data to inform the development of therapies for Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease
Utilize mouse models of PD and HD in combination with several experimental approaches including in vivo and ex vivo electrophysiology, 2-photon imaging, molecular profiling, circuit mapping, optogenetics, chemogenetics, and mouse behavior

Qualification

ElectrophysiologyCircuit interrogationMouse behavior2-photon imagingOptogeneticsChemogeneticsMolecular profilingData analysisLaboratory practiceResearch safetyCommunication skillsOrganizational skillsCreative thinkingIndependent work

Required

PhD in the life sciences, physics, or biomedical engineering
Research experience in neuroscience

Preferred

Expertise and/or interest in electrophysiology
Expertise and/or interest in modern circuit interrogation approaches
Expertise and/or interest in mouse behavior

Company

Northwestern Department of Neurological Surgery

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We are Chicago’s top-ranking Department of Neurological Surgery, located at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
dateFounded in 1909
location
Chicago, IL, US
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/neurosurgery/

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