Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-30035-281

Title: Postdoctoral Researcher           

Salary: $73,588

Department: Neuroscience

Physical work location: (must be proper street address) Leon and Norma Hess Center for Science and Medicine, 1470 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10029, United States

Name PI or Supervisor: (include phone and email) 

Web link to Lab: https://labs.neuroscience.mssm.edu/project/wu-lab/

Web link to Department:  https://icahn.mssm.edu/about/departments-offices/neuroscience

Administrative Contact: (phone and email) Jenny Rivera (jenny.rivera@mssm.edu; 212-659-5990)

 

Details of Research Project: 

This project will involve developing an operant chamber social behavioral paradigm in mice to study social cognition. The project will focus on relating cues in the operant chamber to a social behavioral paradigm. The candidate will conduct optogenetic manipulations and miniscope imaging during these tasks to study the circuits and cell types and population dynamics underlying those social cognitive behaviors. More details analysis of cell types will be conducted via single-nucleus RNA sequencing and ex vivo electrophysiology. 

Technical Duties: (include any protocols)

The candidate will perform surgeries, behavior, in vivo calcium recordings and histology on mice. Moreover, they will process and analyze the resulting behavioral and miniscope data. The candidate will also analyze a single-nucleus RNA-sequencing dataset. Candidate will write reports detailing the results of experiments, write manuscripts detailing the results of the projects, review papers, write grants, and mentor other trainees in the lab.

Educational and other Requirements for the position: PhD in neuroscience; expertise in mouse behavior, mouse stereotaxic surgery, ex vivo electrophysiology and calcium imaging, data analysis

Experience Required: Revelant lab skills in neuroscience or relates field

Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project: 

 

This project should result in two publications. One publication will detail the findings from the project relating novel social cognitive paradigms to circuits and population dynamics, and a second publication will characterize the cell-types and physiology in those social cognitive behaviors via single-cell RNA sequencing and ex vivo electrophysiology.

 

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Compensation Statement

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for this role is $73,588.00 - $80,000.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

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