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The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering is a truly unique partnership where innovation, collaboration, and teamwork are embedded in our very foundations: We harness the resources and talent of one of the nation's highly regarded private medical schools at Emory alongside those of a top-tier public engineering college at Georgia Tech. We are one Department on two campuses, with all the opportunity and connections of both available to our students and faculty.

Our mission is twofold: to educate and prepare students to reach the forefront of leadership in the fields of biomedical engineering, and to significantly impact healthcare by assembling a world-class faculty who shape the cutting edge of research in key biomedical areas. The Department's bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs are consistently recognized among the best in the world.

Coulter BME enjoys access to world-class research facilities, with educational and lab space spread across 10 buildings at Georgia Tech, Emory, and Technology Enterprise Park. The Department includes nearly 90 academic faculty members, 70+ research faculty members, and 100 affiliated program faculty across other academic units at Georgia Tech and Emory. The Department serves more than 1,100 undergraduate and nearly 400 graduate students. Coulter BME is supported by 50 professional administrative staff members.

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in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech & Emory University seeks a highly motivated and skilled postdoctoral fellow to undertake NIH funded projects examining synaptic and network mechanisms supporting sensory perception and visual attention.

The projects offer significant opportunity to learn cutting-edge research techniques in vivo with transgenic mice performing quantitative visual behavioral tasks.

The specific job duties undertaken include the following: 1) neural population recording with high-density silicon electrodes (Neuropixels), 2) optogenetic circuit manipulation, 3) training transgenic mice on quantitative visual spatial detection behaviors 4) high dimensional neural data signal processing and analysis

• Candidates should have completed a PhD

• 5+ years of relevant experience

• The ideal candidate has expertise in patch clamp / multi-electrode electrophysiology in vitro or in vivo, experience with neural or behavioral data analysis related to visual neuroscience, and quantitative skill in data acquisition and analysis (preferably with MATLAB). Candidates should have excellent written and verbal communication skills, an inquisitive mindset, and enthusiasm to work in a multi-disciplinary team.

• Significant experience in: electrophysiology, visual neuroscience, neural data analysis
• Proven ability to: execute projects using the above skillsets in high-quality publications
• Knowledge of: optogenetics, optical imaging,
• Excellent skills in: MATLAB (or similar) programming, animal experimental procedures necessary for in vivo electrophysiology studies, neural signal processing
• Experience in: animal behavior / human visual psychophysics

For additional information about this job opening, please contact Dr. Bila Haider The candidate of choice will be required to pass a pre-employment background screening. .

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