JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Department: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

Physical work location: (must be proper street address)

Annenberg 21-44

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

One Gustave L. Levy Place

New York, NY 10029

Name PI or Supervisor: (include phone and email)

Andrew Varga, MD, PhD

andrew.varga@mssm.edu

914-347-1261

Web link to Lab: https://labs.icahn.mssm.edu/vargalab/

Web link to Department: https://icahn.mssm.edu/about/departments/medicine/pulmonary

Administrative Contact: (phone and email)

Daniel Bunger

daniel.bunger@mssm.edu

212-241-4333

RESPONSIBILITIES

Details of Research Project:

The focus of the lab is on understanding relationships between sleep/sleep disorders, cognition, and risk for neurodegenerative disease. To that end, we employ a mouse model of tauopathy in which we attempt to manipulate sleep bidirectionally both acutely and chronically to understand impacts on sleep neurophysiology, learning/memory behaviors, and evidence for tauopathy and neurodegeneration.

Technical Duties: (include any protocols)

Technical duties include learning surgery to implant EEG/EMG to record sleep in mice, learning to how score sleep and identify and quantify key neurophysiological hallmarks related to sleep quality and mnemonic processes, perform stereotaxic surgeries to introduce proteins of interest into specific brain regions, performing bench biochemistry, including brain histology, immunohistochemistry, and microscopy, and perform rodent behavioral protocols.

QUALIFICATIONS

Educational and other Requirements for the position: MD and/or PhD in neuroscience, physiology, or related discipline.

Experience Required: Experience in rodent surgery, sleep recordings, biochemistry, and behavior is preferred but not mandatory.

Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project: The candidate is expected to present an abstract during at least one national sleep/neuroscience meeting per year and work toward publishing one manuscript per year.

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The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Requisition ID : 3018858