Postdoctoral Associate - Sensory Motor Integration : Ashburn, VA, United States

Job Description

Summary:

A postdoctoral research associate position is available for a collaborative project between the laboratories of Gwyneth Card (Janelia Research Campus), and Andrew Dacks and Kevin Daly (West Virginia University). We are looking for a creative, motivated individual to study neural circuits that provide motor information to sensory networks in Drosophila melanogaster, using 2-photon microscopy. Specifically, the goal of this project will be to image these neural circuits during specific behaviors, as well as during optogenetic activation/inactivation of specific motor network elements. The successful candidate will join a collaborative effort hosted at the Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. Initial funding is for one year with possibilities for renewal.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement methods to image and control targeted neural circuits in Drosophila

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Drosophila
• Experience with advanced imaging
• Skills to manage and support interdisciplinary collaborations
• Ability work collaboratively
• Proficiency with Matlab and data analysis

Education and Experience:

• PhD in neuroscience or a related discipline

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to perform extensive hands-on work at the bench, with minimal supervision
• Ability to fully document and substantiate scientific methods, procedures, and results

Physical Requirements:

• Occasionally lifts and/or carries objects weighing up to 20 pounds
• Occasionally stoops and bends
• Occasionally reaches and grasps with arms and hands
• Work involves possible exposure to laser sources, malodorous vapors, animal allergens and other animal-borne hazards, viruses, experimental microbial agents, low dose radiation, contamination by toxic chemicals and acids and presence of carcinogenic substances
• Long periods of standing and/or sitting

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