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Job No.

• Job Title:
• Postdoctoral Associate
• Employer:
• Baylor College of Medicine
• Location:
• Houston, TX
• Posting Date:
• 07-May-2025
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• Description:

• Summary

  The Laboratory of Neural Circuit Modulation in the Department of Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine is seeking highly motivated and creative scientists. The applicant will join an NIH-funded lab to engage in basic and translational neuroscience research. The laboratory uses in vivo 2-photon imaging, electrophysiology and optogenetic approaches to better understand GABAergic inhibitory mechanisms that control neural activity dynamics in health and epilepsy.

  Job Duties

  • Plans, directs, and conducts specialized and advanced research experiments.
  • Evaluates and analyzes data.
  • Establishes new research protocols and procedures.
  • Summarizes research findings and publishes results in research journals.
  • Trains and supervises research staff and trainees.

  Minimum Qualifications

  • MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.
  • No experience required.

  Preferred Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Neuroscience or a related field.
  • Research experience and publication record (published, peer-reviewed first-author paper) in neuroscience.
  • Expertise in one or more of the following areas: Inhibition, interneurons, hippocampus, epilepsy, endocannabinoids.
  • Excellent written/oral communication in English.
  • Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and collaborative research environment.
  • Basic data science skills (Excel, statistics).
  • Prior experience in one or more of these techniques: mouse survival surgery, two-photon microscopy and analysis, patch-clamp, intracranial EEG monitoring and analysis, optogenetic techniques, mouse models of epilepsy.
  • Coding skills (Python).

  Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

  PD; SN

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•  Contact information:
• Baylor College of Medicine