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The Diba Lab at the University of Michigan is currently recruiting a research technician to assist in rodent behavioral tasks and investigations of spike trains recorded from large populations of hippocampal neurons in learning and sleep. The research technician will support multiple new and ongoing projects in the Diba Lab. The technician will handle rodents and help train them in behavioral tasks, including by piloting new behaviors to assess memory formation and consolidation relevant to newly funded NIMH grant as well as to provide preliminary data for a planned grant submission on the effects of anesthesia on hippocampal function. Additional related duties will include performing sleep-deprivation experiments using the gentle handling procedure, delivering anesthetics, and performing stereotaxic surgeries.  The technician will also take a lead role in preparing previously collected data for analysis related to a newly funded NSF grant, by running it through processing pipelines for spike detection and unit clustering across long-duration recordings. 

The Diba Lab (Anesthesiology, Michigan Medicine) is affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Michigan. Collectively these programs and the University of Michigan at large provide a highly exciting and stimulating scientific environment for computational and systems neuroscience. The city of Ann Arbor is also consistently ranked among the top places in the U.S. to live, with affordable access to cultural events, sports, parks and natural beauty. 

Senior:

Previous experience in data analysis and programming with MATLAB is required. Additionally, applicants must possess a bachelor's degree in neurobiology or related field, 2 years prior research experience on sleep and circadian mechanisms of memory formation and consolidation and demonstrated research productivity in writing and preparing manuscripts for publication in scientific journals. 

Inter:

Previous experience in data analysis and programming with MATLAB is required. Additionally, applicants must possess a bachelor's degree in neurobiology or related field, 1 year of prior research experience on sleep and circadian mechanisms of memory formation and consolidation and demonstrated research productivity in writing and preparing manuscripts for publication in scientific journals. 

This is a 20hr a week position. 

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This position may be underfilled at a lower classification depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate.

THIS IS A ONE (1) YEAR TERM LIMITED APPOINTMENT (with a possibility of renewal for a second year depending on performance and availability of funding.)

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