FUNDING AND POSITION OPPORTUNITIES

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

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Upcoming Foundation Grant Deadlines in Neuroscience Research

James S. McDonnell Foundation: Research Awards in Brain Cancer and Complex Systems

http://www.jsmf.org/programs/bc/index.htm

Supports novel research that will generate new knowledge leading to increased rates of survival and improve functional recovery for individuals with brain cancer, by improving our understandings of the molecular, metabolic, and physiological characteristics of human brain cancers across multiple temporal and spatial scales and the power of preclinical models to predict patient responses.  This program is intended to encourage new ideas and approaches, early in their development, that are unlikely to be funded from traditional sources. Proposals from junior faculty and from individuals with strong neuroscience, genetics, mathematics, molecular pathology, and tumor immunology backgrounds, interested in pursuing novel research on brain cancer, are encouraged. Proposals better suited to programs at NINDS or NCI are discouraged.

Awards: $450,000/ 3-6 years

Application deadline: 3/14/2012

POSITION OPPORTUNITIES

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY

I would like to recruit a postdoc who is experienced in electrophysiology, particularly patch-clamp recording and LTP measurements.  There are several exciting projects we would like to do, including one that relates to the prion protein and Alzheimer’s disease.

David A. Harris, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Biochemistry
Boston University School of Medicine
72 East Concord Street, K225
Boston, MA 02118
Telephone: 617-638-4362
Fax: 617-638-5339
E-mail: daharris@bu.edu

Research & Administrative Assistant Boston University School of Medicine

The Framingham Heart Study at Boston University is looking to hire a full-time Research & Administrative Assistant, who will manage an effective research office and ancillary studies on the Medical campus.  Major areas of responsibility include administrative and office support in all areas associated with managing a large scale, multi-faceted research entity, coordinating work flow for several senior investigators, supervising temporary staff, and facilitating communication networks between staff researchers and collaborators.  Duties include but are not limited to:

• Maintaining and updating bibliography databases using EndNote software
• Performing medline searches and retrieval of articles.
• Assisting in preparation of grant proposals and progress reports.
• Purchasing equipment and service maintenance contracts; processing invoices and travel reimbursements.
• Maintaining inventory control of equipment.
• Maintaining a systematic and organized office environment.
• Using various software applications to assist senior investigators with presentations, manuscripts, grants, and numerous other research-oriented activities.
• Assisting Investigators and FHS in planning the annual OSMB meeting

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years experience in medical or office environment.
• BA or BS in Public Health or Research related field (preferred).
• Managerial skills in maintaining a small but busy research office.
• Competency at computer with working knowledge of Word; Excel; and PowerPoint software.
• General accounting procedures, business arithmetic, typing; excellent grammar and composition.

If interested, please email your resume & cover letter to Deanna Astvatsaturov at fhsadmin@bu.edu

Boston University

Professor of Neurobiology

The Biology Department invites applications for a tenured faculty appointment in neurobiology at the rank of full professor. We are particularly interested in innovative researchers who integrate cell and molecular neurobiology with systems neuroscience to study basic questions in signaling, synaptic function, development or learning and memory, and their connections to organismal phenotypes. We seek a colleague with an international reputation and an outstanding record of research accomplishment who will serve as a leader in the future development of neurobiology in the department and the broader neuroscience community at Boston University.  Responsibilities include training graduate students as part of a vigorous research program with extramural funding and participation in undergraduate and graduate instruction. The successful candidate will be offered laboratory facilities in our new interdisciplinary Life Science & Engineering Building, a competitive salary, and generous start-up funding. Review of applications will begin 15 February 2012 and continue until the position is filled. Please use AcademicJobsOnline (https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/1368) to submit your application. Inquiries can be addressed to Michael Baum (baum@bu.edu), Chair, Neurobiology Search Committee, or Michael Sorenson (msoren@bu.edu), Chair, Department of Biology. Please visit the following websites for additional information about the Biology Department (http://www.bu.edu/biology/) and BU’s interdisciplinary programs in Neuroscience (http://www.bu.edu/neuro/). Boston University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY

Professor of Neuroscience

Florida Atlantic University seeks to hire a neuroscientist at the rank of full professor who will join a new neuroscience initiative on the university’s MacArthur campus located in in Jupiter, Florida. We are interested in candidates with a well-established research program who will complement existing strengths at FAU in the Biology and Psychology Departments. Although all applicants with an interest in the neurosciences will be considered, applicants with an exceptional record of accomplishment in molecular and/or cellular neuroscience are strongly encouraged to apply. The Max Planck Florida Institute (MPFI) and The Scripps Research Institute (Scripps Florida) have recently established new research facilities on the MacArthur campus adjacent to the FAU-Life Science buildings that will house the neuroscience program. Ample opportunities exist for interaction and collaboration with their scientists, and as an initial step in this collaboration, a joint graduate program between FAU and MPFI has been established and admitted its first students this year (see http://www.science.fau.edu/neuroscience/iban/). A competitive start-up package will be available.

Interested applicants for this position should go to https://jobs.fau.edu and search for position # 991114. Applications must be filed electronically and should include a cover letter stating your interest and a personal statement of research and teaching interests, a full CV as well as names and contact information for three referees. Applications will be considered beginning January 1, 2012 and the position will remain open until a suitable candidate is hired. A background check is required for candidates selected for these positions. FAU is an Equal Opportunity/ Equal Access Institution.

Duke University

Postdoctoral Position in Cognitive Neuroscience of Episodic Memory

Postdoctoral position available in the laboratory of Roberto Cabeza (www.cabezalab.org) at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience of Duke University (www.mind.duke.edu). fMRI scanning (www.biac.duke.edu) and TMS (http://sites.google.com/site/duken3lab/) facilities are located within a few hundred yards. Research focuses on the neural mechanisms of visual memory and emotional memory in young and older adults using fMRI, functional connectivity, DTI, EEG/ERP, and TMS. The position includes ample RA support and collaborations with graduate students and faculty. The ideal candidate will have several of the following qualifications: (1) background in memory and/or aging research; (2) experience in fMRI (e.g., SPM), EEG/ERP, or TMS; (3) excellent programming skills (e.g., Matlab); (4) expertise in statistics; and (5) a promising publication record. Send a statement of research interests and a CV to cabeza@duke.edu.

Lab Manager Position in Cognitive Neuroscience of Episodic Memory

Lab manager position available in the laboratory of Roberto Cabeza (www.cabezalab.org) at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience of Duke University (www.mind.duke.edu). fMRI scanning (www.biac.duke.edu) and TMS (http://sites.google.com/site/duken3lab/) facilities are located within a few hundred yards. Research focuses on the neural mechanisms of visual memory and emotional memory in young and older adults using fMRI, functional connectivity, DTI, EEG/ERP, and TMS. Duties include recruitment and neuropsychological testing of young and older participants, MRI scanning and analysis, supervision and training of undergraduate students, and general laboratory administration. The position includes opportunities for research and co-authorship of abstracts and papers. Qualifications: B.A. or equivalent with background in psychology, neuroscience, or computer science. All candidates should have excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, good computer skills, and some research experience. Experience in computer programming and familiarity with statistic are desirable. Two-year commitment is required. Send a cover letter and a CV to cabeza@duke.edu.

Immediate PDF Vacancy in Behavioural Neurophysiology at Trinity College Dublin. Wellcome Trust-Funded Project focused on freely-moving recordings in vivo.

Exciting, scientifically compelling and mature project, with plenty of room for development.

Experience of electrophysiology/neurophysiology is essential; experience in freely-moving recordings is desirable. The ideal candidate will possess high levels of intellectual curiosity, drive and motivation.

Fully equipped lab with ample technical and analytic back-up. The successful applicant will conduct large-scale recordings (using Axona hardware) of deep-brain midline structures. This project is part of a long-standing collaboration with colleagues at Cardiff University.

Some recent relevant papers:

• Hok et al. (2012). Hippocampal Dynamics Predict Inter-Individual Cognitive Differences in Rats. J Neurosci, in press
• Chah et al. (2011). A waveform independent cell identification method to study long-term variability of spike recordings. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011:2558-61.
• Tsanov et al. (2011). Theta-modulated head direction cells in the rat anterior thalamus. J Neurosci, 31, 9489-9502.
• Wang et al.  (2011). Rosiglitazone enhances learning, place cell activity, and synaptic plasticity in middle-aged rats. Neurobiol Aging. Oct 3. [Epub ahead of print]
• Passecker et al. (2011). Dissociation of dorsal hippocampal regional activation under the influence of stress in freely-behaving rats. Frontiers Behav Neurosci, 5, 66, 1-7 doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00066
• Tsanov et al. (2011). Oscillatory Entrainment of Thalamic Neurons by Theta Rhythm in Freely-Moving Rats. J Neurophys, 105, 4-17.
• Chah et al. (2011).  Automated spike sorting algorithm based on Laplacian eigenmaps and k-means clustering J Neural Engineering, 8(1):016006

Enquiries and applications by email (CV, three academic references, list of publications, cover letter) to Prof Shane O’Mara (smomara@tcd.ie).  Further details on Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN): http://www.tcd.ie/Neuroscience/

University of California, Riverside

The Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Cognitive Psychology to start July 1, 2012.  We seek applicants whose research examines the cognitive neuroscience of human learning and memory. The ideal candidate will contribute to our emerging emphasis in experience-dependent change. Applicants should demonstrate a record of research excellence using methodological approaches involving human behavior, cognitive neuroscience, and/or computational modeling. Individuals with interdisciplinary interests are encouraged to apply.     Applicants should be committed to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education and interest in teaching quantitative methods at the graduate level is preferable. The Ph.D. is required and salary is commensurate with education and experience.  Review of applications will begin February 15, 2012 and continue until the position is filled. Interested candidates should send hardcopies of their curriculum vitae, a cover letter describing research and teaching interests, reprints if available, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to: Professor Steve Clark, Chair Cognitive Search Committee Department of Psychology University of California ­ Riverside  900 University Avenue  Riverside, CA 92521.

National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, DHHS

Position available for a postdoctoral fellow beginning this coming October. This is an opportunity for an eager young scientist to establish a new direction in my lab to study the behavioral roles of oxytocin and vasopressin in the mouse brain in conjunction with our stable of knockout mice.

W. Scott Young, III, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Section on Neural Gene Expression
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, DHHS
9000 Rockville Pike,  MSC 4483
Building 49, Room 5A56 (off.) 5A51 (lab.)
Bethesda, MD 20892-4483

Research Assistant Position

Framingham Heart Study

We are looking to hire a Research Assistant for a joint neuropsychology/osteoporosis study with the renowned Framingham Heart Study.  Our offices are located in Framingham, MA but we are part of the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife and the Neurology department at Boston University School of Medicine.

This multi-faceted position requires someone who is mature, independent, self-initiating, and comfortable working in an unstructured, dynamic environment with little supervision.  Primary responsibilities include testing subjects (many of whom are elderly) at a Framingham Study based clinic, scoring, entering and cleaning data, assisting with flow of study participants, attending weekly project meetings, and assisting with other project-related work as needed.

Minimum qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in psychology or related field, some experience in research, 2 year commitment, a willingness to work non-traditional hours and a car.

This position is ideal for those who plan to apply to Ph.D. programs or medical school.  Be advised that applicants may be asked to write a critical analysis of 2 research articles as part of the interview process. Also, only those available for on-site interviews will be considered.  Benefits include those offered to all full-time Hebrew SeniorLife employees (see www.http://www.hebrewseniorlife.org for details.)  Please e-mail cover letter and resume to Kerry Broe at broe@hsl.harvard.edu.

Graduate Fellowship Opportunities:

Postdoctoral Fellowships Opportunities:

http://cvcl.mit.edu/fellowshipspostdoc.htm

Employment:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR BRAIN SCIENCE FACULTY POSITION
The Center for Brain Science is seeking an Assistant Professor who works in the area of systems
neuroscience, broadly construed. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research
programs apply novel experimental and computational approaches to the study of the structure
and function of neural circuits and their relationship to behavior. Successful candidates will hold
an academic appointment in a participating department in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at
Harvard University.
The Center for Brain Science brings together scientists involved in research on systems
neuroscience. Our aims include discovering and understanding the neural circuits that underlie
behavior in diverse animal species. CBS fosters interactions across disciplinary boundaries—
faculty from several academic departments share neighboring research and meeting space and
common research facilities; its connections reach out across the University. Further information
about the Center for Brain Science is available at http://cbs.fas.harvard.edu/.
Candidates should have demonstrated excellence in both research and teaching. A strong doctoral
record is required and postdoctoral experience preferred. Teaching opportunities will include
offerings at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
To apply, please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement, statement of teaching
philosophy, up to three publications, and contact information for three people who will write
letters of reference on your behalf to http://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/3718.
Your application, including letters of reference, should be complete by 28 November 2011.
Applications from, or nominations of, women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged.
Harvard University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Rutgers University

We are seeking a strong minority PhD student or Postdoctoral fellow for my lab to work on the  cognitive neuroscience of learning, memory, and decision making, including studies of genetic bases of individual differences in cognition, along with studies of life-span changes in memory in African-Americans and others. There are also dditional opportunities in my lab to work on community-education and public outreach programs within our Newark African-American Alzheimer’s Awareness & Brain Health Initiative.

We have funding for minority candidates for both our PhD program (and potentially next year for a postdoctoral fellow) through both our  NIH Minority Biomedical Research Support grant as well as through possible supplemental funding to our NINDS Udall Center of Excellence in Parkinson’s  Disease grant.

More information on our lab and related programs is at http://www.gluck.edu

We are located in Newark, NJ, just outside (about 13 miles from) Manhattan/New York City.

New York University

Assistant Professor of Cognition and Perception, Department of Psychology

The Department of Psychology in Arts and Science at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor level position in Cognition and Perception. We encourage applications from all areas of cognition and perception, including developmental approaches. The appointment will begin on September 1, 2012, pending budgetary and administrative approval. The primary criteria are excellence in basic research and teaching. Review of applications will begin December 1, 2011. To apply, see the NYU Department of Psychology web site at http://www.psych.nyu.edu/ via the “Job Openings” link. The applicant should include vita, statement of research and teaching interests, representative publications and the names of three referees. New York University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Postdoctoral Position – Neurobiology of Memory
Helmstetter Lab, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

I currently have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher interested in the neurobiology of learning and memory.  We study brain mechanisms underlying simple associative learning and related processes using a variety of experimental approaches from molecular neurobiology to non-invasive brain imaging in human subjects and laboratory animals. Milwaukee has a very strong group of investigators with shared interests in learning and memory
and a supportive training environment for postdocs. You can learn more about the program at http://neuroscience.uwm.edu and more about the current projects in my lab at http://www.uwm.edu/~fjh

Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Neuroscience or a closely related discipline and be highly motivated.  Please send a CV with names of three or more references and a statement of research interests to Dr. Fred Helmstetter at fjh@uwm.edu

Faculty position in Behavioral Neuroscience at UC Berkeley

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY:
Pending budgetary approval, the Department of Psychology is seeking to fill a tenure-track, assistant professor faculty position, with a start date of July 1, 2012, in the area of Behavioral Neuroscience.  We are seeking candidates whose research program investigates neural plasticity and its consequences for learning and memory, broadly defined.  Priority will be given to candidates with a research program that uses animal models to explore the mechanisms of learning and memory at the neural, cellular, or molecular level of analysis.  Successful individuals will establish an independently funded research program that synergizes with the interests of other members of the Psychology Department and the neuroscience community at Berkeley. The Department is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples and single parents.  We are interested in candidates who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through their teaching, research, and service.     

For addition information:  Lance Kriegsfeld <kriegsfeld@berkeley.edu>