UNIV - Post Doctoral Scholar-Exempt - Department of Neuroscience

Medical University of South Carolina • Charleston, SC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Neural adaptations are a hallmark of all alcohol use disorder, allowing mechanistic changes to influence alcohol-related behaviors. The neurocircuits within the thalamus, cortex, and striatum are necessary to affect reward-seeking and cognitive behaviors, but how these circuits are adapted through alcohol dependence to drive aberrant behaviors are unknown. The postdoctoral position will focus on examining these circuits in a model for the study of alcohol use disorder and the neurobiological adaptations that occur from the onset of drug use to increase maladaptive behaviors in a mouse model. Visit the Mulholland Lab website for more information: https://medicine.musc.edu/departments/neuroscience/research-scholarship/labs/mulholland

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent
• Ability to obtain and maintain a valid drivers license.
• Computer literacy.
• Ability to work rotating shifts as required.
• Ability to work overtime as required.
• Ability to learn and use new processes, tools and equipment as required.

Responsibilities

• Conducts behavioral studies, performs intracranial implantation surgeries in mice.
• Monitors cannula placement throughout and at the end of each study.
• Manages mouse breeding colonies to maintain appropriate levels of transgenic animals as needed for rodent studies.
• Performs neural recordings in combination with mouse behavior (imaging and stimulation with optogenetic constructs).
• Performs behavioral optogenetic and chemogenetic mouse experiments.
• Mentors and trains doctoral students in a multitude of lab techniques such as calcium imaging, mouse alcohol drinking used to study reward circuitry, mouse surgical procedures, behavioral optogenetics and chemogenetics.
• Keeps accurate and detailed records of experiments and results, and identifies and troubleshoots unexpected results.
• Observes and complies with safety standards and procedures.
• Works to develop and secure research funding (writing grants).
• Prepares manuscripts on results for publication.
• Works with a broad range of collaborators to deliver research in the area of addiction neuroscience.
• Identifies opportunities for publications and research funding.
• Analyses and presents data, and prepares abstracts and manuscripts for dissemination.
• Leads and collaborates on peer-reviewed journal submissions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree