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. David Berson
Director, NIMH Postdoctoral Training Grant
Department of Neuroscience, Box G-LN
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
David_Berson@brown.edu

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

Faculty trainers actively seeking new trainees:

Carlos Aizenman visual system development
David Berson retinal cells and circuits; circadian rhythms
Rebecca Burwell postrhinal and perirhinal cortex
John Donoghue

voluntary movement; neural prostheses for paralysis

Anna Dunaevsky spine motility and synaptogenesis
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
Mayank Mehta hippocampal mechanisms of learning and memory
James Padbury genetic determinants of perinatal growth
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
James Simmons bat echolocation
Mike Tarr representation and recognition of visual objects and faces
Mark Zervas development of dopaminergic circuits

Other faculty trainers:

James Anderson brain-like computations by neural networks
Gilad Barnea olfactory circuits; novel trans-synaptic tracing methods
Elie Bienenstock computer vision; theoretical neuroscience
Sheila Blumstein neural basis of language
Wayne Bowen sigma receptors
Barry Connors cellular neurophysiology of the neocortex
Leon Cooper

neural networks, learning and memory

Stuart Geman

compositional vision, neural modeling and representation

Julie Kauer

molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity

John Marshall trafficking of glutamate receptors and Ca2+ channels
David Mumford pattern theory and object recognition
Michael McKeown

genetics of complex behavior and neural degeneration

Andrea Simmons development of auditory circuits
Anita Zimmerman ion channels in retinal photoreceptors
Edward Stopa

mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease pathology

William Warren visual control of locomotion