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Rutgers The State University Postdoctoral Fellow in New Brunswick, New Jersey

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Recruitment/Posting Title Postdoctoral Fellow
Job Category Staff & Executive - Research (Laboratory/Non-Laboratory)
Department RWJ - Brain Health Institute
Overview
New Jersey's academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University-New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state-at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark's University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.
Posting Summary
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Brain Health Institute.Under the direction of the Principal Investigator performs experiments to examine how the orexin system interacts with stress and reward circuitries in an animal model of addiction, and how these circuits are involved in substance abuse disorders. This knowledge will facilitate the development of orexin-based therapies that can effectively treat the multifaceted symptoms associated with addiction. This Post Doc Fellow will perform research into brain substrates of addiction using advanced behavioral economic and other behavioral, chemogenetic and neuroscience approaches in rodent drug self-administration models. Research will use orexin-cre rats and local microinjections of DIO viral vectors into brain, immunohistochemical analyses, as well as assays for addiction-like behavioral phenotype to identify brain circuits responsible for addiction.Among the key duties of this position are the folloiwng:
  • Performs various research and technical operations relative to ongoing investigatory activities of a laboratory; may assist in conducting specialized research for a particular phase of a project.
  • Participates in the development of performance standards, selection of methodology and instrumentation and coordination of the analytical, biochemical, anatomical, physiological and instrumentation functions in the research areas to ensure conformance with the goals and objectives of the department.
  • Conduct behavioral, anatomic, chemogenetic, pharmacological and chemogenetic experiments in rodents to delineate mechanisms underlying opioid abuse.
  • Conduct conditioned place preference, and learning and memory tasks, intracerebral infusions, and pharmacological manipulations in rodents to develop novel therapeutic approaches to prevent development of addiction propensity during chronical administration of prescription opioids.
  • Perform small animal surgeries, including stereotaxic surgery and jugular vein catheterization.
Position Status Full Time
Hours Per Week
Daily Work Shift
Work Arrangement
This position requires a fully on-site work arrangement.
FLSA Exempt
Grade 99S
Position Salary
Annual Minimum Salary 0.000
Annual Mid Range Salary 0.000
Annual Maximum Salary 0.000
Standard Hours 37.50
Union Description AAUP
Payroll Designation PeopleSoft
Benefits
Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.
Seniority Unit
Terms of Appointment Staff - 12 month
Position Pension Eligibility ABP
Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience
  • A PhD degree in Psychology or Neuroscience or related field.
  • A minimum of 6 years' experience in addiction research using animal models.
  • Minimum requirements include laboratory skills in all of the following techniques: algesiometry & pain assessment in animal models, rodent drug self-administration, optogenetics, chemogenetics, voltammetry, rodent behavior assessment, histology, and microscopy.
  • Candidates in ABD status (all but degree) will also be considered.
Certifications/Licenses
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Must have documented ability to write scientific reports with a minimum of five articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
Preferred Qualifications
Equipment Utilized
Physical Demands and Work Environment
  • Physical Demands: Sitting, standing, walking, reaching, kneeling, talking and hearing. Ability to lift up to 25 lbs.
  • Work Environment: Scientific research laboratory. Computer data input. Universal safety precautions are mandatory. Lab environment. Moderate noise. Exposure to blood, excrement, and possible exposure to infectious and communicable diseases. Universal precautions are mandatory. Exposure to hazardous-chemicals,
Special Conditions
Posting Details

Posting Number 24ST1555
Posting Open Date
Special Instructions to Applicants
Regional Campus Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS)
Home Location Campus Downtown New Brunswick
City New Brunswick
State NJ
Location Details
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