UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
School of Medicine
UC Irvine offers a Neuroscience Epilepsy Research Postdoctoral Program Fellowship. The Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral program in Epilepsy Research has multiple openings for non-tenured, academic term appointments as Postdoctoral Scholar. The program supports diverse approaches to the understanding of the fundamental neurobiological processes leading to epilepsy and/or holding promise for its cure. Participating laboratories include:
Tallie Z. Baram, PhD, MD: Mechanisms of epileptogenesis after febrile seizures, regulation of ion channels, in vivo and in vitro imaging.
Devin Binder, MD: Water transport and water channels in epilepsy, Aquaporins, optical imaging
Steven Cramer, MD: Functional imaging and robotics for identification and cure of excitotoxic and ischemic insults,
Christine M. Gall, PhD: Neurotrophins, integrins, activity-dependent plasticity
Alan L. Goldin, MD, PhD: Sodium channels, transgenic approaches, electrophysiology
Gary Lynch, PhD: Regulation of excitability and synaptic function and plasticity
Charles E. Ribak, PhD: Granule cell plasticity, neuroanatomy
Mick Rugg, PhD: Functional imaging of learning and memory circuits in health and disease
Ivan Soltesz, PhD: Electrophysiology, computational neurobiology, interneurons and inhibition
Martin Smith, PhD: Novel signaling- Agrin and neuronal excitability
Oswald Steward, PhD: Mechanisms of vulnerability to excitotoxicity
John Weiss, MD, PhD: Excitotoxicity, calcium and zinc trafficking
See:http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/epilepsyresearch/
These positions starting Summer/Fall 2009 are funded by an NIH training grant (T-32); eligible candidates must be U.S. citizens or non-citizen nationals or must be lawfully admitted for permanent residence. An MD or PhD degree is required, and MD qualified candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Salary is commensurate with experience and based on the Kirschstein-NRSA postdoctoral stipend levels for 2009. Candidates should submit resume and references to: sara.johnson@uci.edu; Postdoctoral Search/ Epilepsy, c/o Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology; Med Surge II, Room 364; University of California, Irvine; Irvine, CA 92697-1275.
The University of California, Irvine is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and strongly encourages applications from all qualified applicants; including women and minorities.