Neuroscience Postdoc Program

Neuroscience Postdoc Program Information

Openings are available immediately for postdoctoral training in neuroscience at Brown University.  Support for these positions comes from an interdepartmental postdoctoral training grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Eligibility is restricted to US citizens and permanent residents with no more than 2 years of prior postdoctoral support from federally funded postdoctoral training grants or individual fellowships.  Priority will be given to candidates with little or no previous postdoctoral training. 

Brown University is a vibrant and exciting environment for postdoctoral study in the neurosciences. A collegial and highly interactive group of world-class interdisciplinary laboratories covers the spectrum from molecular and cellular neurobiology through systems to cognitive, computational and clinical neuroscience.  Most trainers have laboratory space in a stunning new building.     

Applicants should send a letter, curriculum vitae, and at least three letters of recommendation to: 

Dr. Barry Connors
Admissions, NIMH Postdoctoral Training Grant
Department of Neuroscience, Box G-LN
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
bc@brown.edu

Postdoc Resource Page: http://biomed.brown.edu/grad-postdoc/

Faculty trainers actively seeking new trainees:

Carlos Aizenman visual system development
Gilad Barnea olfactory circuits; novel trans-synaptic tracing methods
David Berson retinal cells and circuits; circadian rhythms
Rebecca Burwell postrhinal and perirhinal cortex
John Donoghue

voluntary movement; neural prostheses for paralysis

Justin Fallon synaptic plasticity, neurobiology of disease
Ed Hawrot nicotinic receptors
Diane Lipscombe voltage gated calcium channels; role in chronic pain
Barry Lester development in infants at risk
Eric Morrow Genetic and molecular mechanisms in disorders of cognitive development
Mike Paradiso cortical vision in primates
Rob Reenan evolution of brain and behavior; RNA editing
Jerome Sanes voluntary movement and motor skill learning
David Sheinberg neurophysiology of high level vision
Mark Zervas development of dopaminergic circuits
 

Other faculty trainers:

David Badre memory and cognitive control
Sheila Blumstein neural basis of language
Barry Connors cellular neurophysiology of the neocortex
Suzanne de la Monte mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease
Julie Kauer

molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity

John Marshall trafficking of glutamate receptors and Ca2+ channels
Michael McKeown

genetics of complex behavior and neural degeneration

Tara White effects of drugs/alcohol on mood, behavior and brain
   

Participants:

Benjamin Greenberg obsessive-compulsive disorder
William Heindel neural substrates of human memory and attention
John Marshall trafficking of glutamate receptors and calcium channels
Steven Rasmussen obsessive-compulsive disorder
Edward Stopa

mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease pathology