What are the responsibilities and job description for the Postdoctoral fellow position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory?
Position Description
A position for a highly motivated postdoc is available in the Banerjee Lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, for a start date of July 2023 or later.
Position Responsibilities
Our lab is interested in how the brain accomplishes the ongoing transformation from sensation to action during natural behaviors.
Vocal communication is ideally suited to study natural and flexible sensorimotor transformations. During a conversation, our brain must interpret what we hear and control our vocal response.
Recently, we have discovered that a neo-tropical rodent, Alston’s singing mouse, engages in fast vocal interactions, even under laboratory settings.
Our lab, using this novel model system, seeks to pursue two complementary questions. First, how does the auditory system interact with the motor system to generate the sensorimotor loop required for vocal communication?
Second, what are the neural circuit modifications that allow behavioral novelty to emerge during evolution? Various rodent species exhibit marked differences in vocal behaviors.
Genes that determine such behavioral differences, for example between the singing mouse and the lab mouse, must act via neural circuits within the brain.
Yet, the structural and functional changes in the brain that specify the distinct vocal repertoires across related species remain unknown.
Research in the lab combines cutting-edge systems neuroscience and comparative evolutionary analyses of neural circuitry across rodent species to bridge this knowledge-gap.
Position Requirements
Candidates must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent) in neuroscience, biomedical engineering or a related field. The ideal candidate should be passionate about behavior, neural circuits and evolution.
Expertise or previous experience in systems neuroscience (especially in-vivo electrophysiology or calcium imaging) is desirable but not essential.
Interested candidates should e-mail their application to . The application file should include : (1) CV with the publication list and contact information for three references.
CSHL Postdoctoral Fellows are compensated in many ways for their contributions to our mission, including competitive pay, exceptional health benefits, retirement plans, padi time off, relocation reimbursement, a Wellness Center and access to an affordable and licensed on-site childcare center.
Last updated : 2024-07-19
