Requisition Number | 2024-45753 | # of Openings | 1 | Posted Date | Day | Shift | Exempt | Exempt/Non-Exempt Status | Non Union Position-W63-Residents/Post Docs |
The Logan Laboratory is seeking a Postdoctoral fellow with training or expertise in bioinformatics-computational biology to conduct research on the role of sleep and circadian rhythms in psychiatric disorders. The candidate will join a highly interactive and collaborative research team with the opportunity to interact among research groups across multiple departments and institutions. The funded fellowship is for 3 years, providing training in psychiatry, translational neuroscience, and computational biology.
The Postdoctoral fellow will contribute to and lead projects that aim to understand the biology of specific cell types in the brain involved in neuroinflammation, sleep, and circadian rhythms in psychiatric disorders. Biological approaches in our laboratory include single nuclei RNA-seq and ATAC-seq, spatial transcriptomics, and bulk tissue transcriptomics and proteomics. The candidate will integrate data generated from these assays across both human (e.g., postmortem brain) and animal models of disease. The candidate will also help in the development of new computational pipelines and workflows for analysis of next generation sequencing datasets. Current projects investigate the biology of substance use disorders, depression, and other psychiatric disorders, with the opportunity to expand into new research areas of disease. The opportunity will foster career growth towards academia or industry roles, while contributing to a rewarding area of research. The fellowship will be tailored to the career goals of the candidate. Salary commensurate with NIH postdoctoral fellowship scale, with opportunities for additional compensation based on relevant experience and sign on bonus.
Primary Responsibilities
Qualifications
Interested candidates should provide the following:
For more information please contact:
Ryan Logan, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
ryan.logan@umassmed.edu