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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.

The laboratory of Dr. Valeria Cavalli is seeking passionate scientists to join their team and contribute to our NIH-funded research projects on the multicellular mechanisms promoting axon regeneration in mouse and human models.

PI: Linda Richards AO, FAA, FAHMS, PhD, department chair

The Richards Lab focuses on the development, plasticity and function of long-range connections of the cerebral cortex. The corpus callosum is the largest fibre tract in the brain of placental mammals and connects neurons in each cortical hemisphere. The lab investigates how cellular and molecular/genetic mechanisms regulate brain wiring during development and how brain wiring is altered in congenital corpus callosum dysgenesis (CCD).