Research Associate
Indiana University
Posted on Apr 4, 2025
Research Associate
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Position Details
| Title | Research Associate |
|---|---|
| Appointment Status | Non-Tenure Track |
| Department | IU Bloomington Psychological & Brain Sciences |
| Location | Bloomington |
| Position Summary | Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana seeks candidates for a Research Associate position. The broad duties and responsibilities of this position include designing, planning, executing, and analyzing experiments with mice investigating the consequences of perinatal cannabis use, training undergraduate students, preparing reports and presenting experimental results to the IU Bloomington and US scientific communities. The specific research question that this position will focus on is: What are the effects of prenatal cannabis use on the neurodevelopment? To address this question, the incumbent will use a most model of perinatal cannabis exposure (PCE). After treating these mice, behavioral tests will be used to determine what behaviors (as assessed by computer-aided tracking and analysis) are adversely affected by PCE. These behavioral tests are followed by confocal microscopy of specific brain regions using antibodies against proteins we think may be affected by PCE as well as using quantitative PCR to determine gene changes. In a recent line of work, the incumbent is determining in pharmacological or circuit-based treatments may reverse the behavioral changes elicited by PCE. The pharmacological experiments involve taking PCE treated mice and then treating them with drugs to activate specific neuromodulatory systems, then reassessing behaviors in the circuit based experiments, the incumbent is injecting viral constructs targeting specific neural circuits and then activating these circuits, and then reassessing behaviors. Position requires a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science, Neuroscience or related field. Interested candidates should review the application requirements and submit their application at https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/28976. Questions about the position should be addressed to jalymedl@iu.edu. Applications received by April 28, 2025 will receive full consideration. The anticipated start date for this position is July 1, 2025. |
| Basic Qualifications | Ph.D. in Biomedical Science, Neuroscience or related field. |
| Department Contact for Questions | Jalyn Medley: jalymedl@iu.edu |
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| For Best Consideration Date | 04/28/2025 |
| Expected Start Date | 07/01/2025 |
| Posting/OAA # | IU-101231-2025 |
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Applicant Documents
Required Documents
- Curriculum Vitae