Posted in Other about 2 hours ago.
Type: Full-Time
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Department of Bioengineering is seeking a Post Doctoral Associate in the Schwerdt Lab who will lead computational analysis, data collection, and animal experiments to dissect dopamine’s complex function in cognition, motivation, and learning. The Schwerdt Lab is focused on addressing questions about how dopamine is involved in regulating movement, motivation, and decisions. The lab applies multiple cutting-edge techniques (chronic electrochemistry, high-density electrophysiology (e.g., Neuropixels), optical fiber photometry) to measure these neurochemical signals in task-performing monkeys trained to perform eye or arm-reaching decision-making tasks to maximize rewards while learning the valence contingencies of various cues and contexts. Dopamine neurochemical recordings are done synchronously with electrophysiological neural recording (e.g., spikes and oscillations) to further elaborate the interactive dynamics between dopamine and neuronal activity and more accurately characterize behaviorally relevant neural activity patterns. The incumbent should have some background ideally working with dynamical systems, machine learning, animal behavior, and/or other forms of computational work and data analysis. Candidates without experience working with animals will still be considered if they are comfortable learning and performing in vivo experiments.
Qualifications: PhD in BioE, computational neuroscience, computer science, engineering, or neuroscience.
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