Current Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Neuroscience of Addiction
A two-year postdoctoral research fellowship in the Behavioral Neuroscience of Addiction is available in the laboratory of Dr. Clyde Hodge in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
This opportunity involves participation in ongoing NIAAA funded preclinical research designed to increase understanding of how alcohol hijacks molecular mechanisms of neuroplasticity within brain reward circuits to drive behavioral pathologies that characterize addiction. Studies in mice will offer specific experience in rigorous behavioral analysis (operant alcohol self-administration, locomotor, and anxiety testing, etc) combined with measurement of protein and gene expression (2D-DIGE proteomics, Western blots, immunohistochemistry, and RT-PCR). Mechanistic approaches (systemic and brain site-specific pharmacology, AAV, and CRISPR techniques) are utilized to evaluate functional (behavioral) significance of alcohol-induced changes in the brain.
Located within the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at UNC, our lab culture is collaborative and dynamic, innovative, and team-based. We are looking for a colleague who shares an interest in understanding how alcohol hijacks reward pathways to produce addiction with the goal of translating this information into potential pharmacological therapeutics.
The ideal candidate should have a strong background in neuroscience or behavioral science, with an interest in applying these methods to understanding brain behavior relations in addiction. Salary is based on NIH NRSA postdoctoral stipend scales. Applicants should send a letter of research interests, CV, and the names of 3 references to Dr. Clyde W. Hodge (chodge@med.unc.edu); https://tarheels.live/hodgelab/.