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Technical Associate I, Fan Lab
Job Number: 23742
Full-Time
Feb 29, 2024
TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE 1, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory-Fan Lab (2 openings), to support research projects in a lab focused on developing and applying novel high-precision optical and molecular technologies to watch and perturb the brain in action. The lab leverages these cutting-edge technologies and integrates them with behavioral, molecular, and computational approaches to unders...
Senior Research Support Associate, Nedivi Lab
Job Number: 23688
Full-Time
Feb 1, 2024
SENIOR RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, to join the Nedivi Lab which is investigating the contribution of different classes of interneurons to circuit development and their relative contribution to neuronal plasticity processes. While inhibitory synapses are essential to brain function and plasticity, surprisingly little is known about their molecular composit...
Patient Coordinator, Tsai Lab
Job Number: 23660
Full-Time
Jan 26, 2024
PATIENT COORDINATOR, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory-Tsai Lab, to assist with clinical research studies conducted at MIT and at MGH that are designed to evaluate whether Gamma ENtrainment Using Sensory (GENUS) stimulation can be used to help people with memory impairment or are at risk of developing impairment. Responsibilities include overseeing protocol development and IRB submis...
Senior Research Support Associate, Flavell Lab
Job Number: 23529
Full-Time
Dec 13, 2023
SENIOR RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, FLAVELL LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, to assist in genetics, optogenetics, in vivo calcium imaging, and quantitative behavioral experiments aimed at understanding how neural circuits generate patterned activity that gives rise to complex behaviors. Research will use the model system C. elegans. Will perform creative and innovative re...
Senior Research Support Associate, Flavell Lab
Job Number: 23524
Full-Time
Dec 11, 2023
SENIOR RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, FLAVELL LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, to participate in computational analysis and modeling of population neural activity in freely-behaving animals that is aimed at understanding how neural circuits generate complex behaviors (navigation, state-dependent behaviors, and more). Data processing will involve deep learning approaches to process calc...
Computational Research Scientist, Chung Lab
Job Number: 23509
Full-Time
Dec 7, 2023
COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH SCIENTIST, CHUNG LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, to use computational toolkit developer experience to support ongoing research by finding solutions and improvements to the current Chung Lab technologies and processes. Will play a critical role for a large NIH UM1 center aimed at mapping the human and non-human primate brain atlases using a state-of-the-...
Research Scientist, Chung Lab
Job Number: 23508
Full-Time
Dec 6, 2023
RESEARCH SCIENTIST, CHUNG LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, to assume a pivotal role in generating spatial transcriptomic and proteomic optical imaging data of human and non-human primate brains. Will utilize the novel technology pipeline established by the Chung Lab, including tissue processing, molecular probe staining, and volumetric data acquisition using light sheet micros...
Technical Associate I, Chung Lab
Job Number: 23507
Full-Time
Dec 6, 2023
TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, CHUNG LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, to play a critical role in protocol development/optimization and data generation for a large NIH UM1 center aiming to map the human and non-human primate brain atlases using a state-of-the-art technology pipeline consisting of novel tissue processing methods, molecular probe labeling, and volumetric optical imaging techni...
Senior Research Support Associate, Choi Lab
Job Number: 23485
Full-Time
Nov 28, 2023
SENIOR RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, CHOI LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, to join a group that is dedicated to studying interactions between the immune and nervous systems. Responsibilities will include histology and immunohistochemical processing, genotyping, confocal microscopy, mouse handling, surgery, behavioral testing, and other wet laboratory work.
Postdoctoral Associate, Fan Lab
Job Number: 23373
Full-Time
Oct 27, 2023
POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, FAN LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory/Brain and Cognitive Sciences (2 openings), to join an interdisciplinary team whose research focuses on developing and applying novel high-precision optical and molecular technologies to watch and perturb the brain in action. The lab leverages these cutting-edge technologies and integrates them with behavioral, molecul...