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The successful applicant will design, build, and characterize innovative optical instruments for fluorescence microscopy applications in Dr. Yao Chen's laboratory.

PI: Karen O’Malley, PhD

The O'Malley Lab is interested in the molecular and cellular bases of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. In particular, the lab is interested in signal transduction pathways mediated by metabotropic glutamate receptors such as mGluR5. These receptors are widely expressed throughout the CNS and play important roles modulating neuronal excitability during brain and synapse development and in learning and memory.

PI: Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD

Research in the Padoa-Schioppa Lab focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms of economic choice (a.k.a. neuroeconomics). The lab combines behavioral, neurophysiological and computational techniques to understand how the brain makes decisions.

PI: Thomas Papouin, PhD

Since its inception, neuroscience has focused on neurons as the single most relevant cellular component of the nervous system for understanding its inner workings. Yet, parts of the mammalian brain are only comprised of 10-20% of neurons. The Papouin lab explores the role played by the remaining 80-90% of “non-neuronal” cells, called glial cells, in brain function. The lab is interested in understanding the role of a glial subtype, astrocytes, in brain function from the perspective of brain states.

Research in the Padoa-Schioppa Lab investigates the neuronal mechanisms of economic decisions in non-human primates and mice. We combine complex behavioral tasks, state-of-the-art neurophysiological techniques and computational approaches.

Two postdoctoral positions are available to investigate the molecular events that dictate the regenerative response of sensory neurons in Dr. Valeria Cavalli’s laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis. One project will investigate how satellite glial cells, which completely surround sensory neurons, communicate with neurons to promote axon regeneration. A second project will investigate the mechanisms by which the neuronal microenvironment contributes to neural repair. These include understanding the injury response of mesenchymal cells, meningeal cells and a new cell type we identified that shares both immune and glial features, and how these cells contribute to nerve repair or pain.

Cavalli Lab

This individual will work in the Cavalli Lab on projects aimed at understanding the multicellular mechanisms regulating peripheral sensory neuron function and dysfunction in injury and disease, in small animal and human model systems.

The Han Lab is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on learning and memory in the hippocampus.

The Hiratani Laboratory seeks to uncover the fundamental principles underlying learning and computation in the brain from the interface between the brain and artificial intelligence.