We're recruiting a postdoc
The Bliss-Moreau Lab, in collaboration with the Baxter Lab, is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to help lead our new work investigating how social environments impact cognitive, affective, and neural aging. The postdoc will help carry out a newly funded project that shift monkeys’ social environments and tracks memory, affective reactivity, and brain health over the course of time. This project was just funded by a 2 year R56 grant from the National Institute of Aging that we just received and thus we are looking for fill the position with an ideal candidate as soon as possible. While the current funding is for 2 years, we will be applying for 5 years of funding once we have data from this project and the themes of the grant are consistent with other work being done in the lab - that is, the opportunity for a longer fellowship exists.
We are particularly interested in candidates who have research experience working with nonhuman animals, especially nonhuman primates, although candidates who do not have such experience but have a proven track record of strong data analysis and writing skills will be considered.
The Bliss-Moreau Lab is part of the Department of Psychology and the California National Primate Research Center, both of which are at UC Davis.
Postdoc recruiting at UC Davis occurs through multiple channels, including both informal (word-of-mouth) and formal job postings. We are generating a formal job positing which will be linked here when ready. Given the need to identify a candidate quickly, however, we are also posting this “informal” (i.e., not via the UCD recruiting website) positing as well.
Qualifications: A Ph.D. in Psychology, Neuroscience, Biological Anthropology, or related fields with demonstrated excellence, broadly defined (that is, we don’t care so much about high JIF papers, but are looking for published papers that are engaging and well written, fellowship applications that whether funded or not speak to scientific promise, creative experimental designs, demonstrated mentoring skills, etc.). Competitive candidates should have strong communication skills (both written and oral) and strong analytic skills. The ability to work as part of a large, dynamic team as both a team member and leader is also important.
Contract and Pay: An initial contract commitment of one year will be made, with the ability to extend for additional years upon mutual agreement. University of California postdocs are unionized and pay rate will be at the standard negotiated rate, which is more than the National Institutes of Health pay scale, and commensurate with experience. After the first year of the contract, the Bliss-Moreau Lab pays postdocs over the standard rate. The position includes benefits.
To Apply: Please use this link: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF04502 We begin reviewing applications on Nov 16 2021 meaning that if you submit your application after that, we will not be able to consider it until we have considered and disqualified application received before the deadline.
Additional Details:
The candidate must be willing to perform assigned duties in a BioSafety Level (BSL) 2 or 2+ facility where nonhuman primates may be either naturally or experimentally infected with potentially hazardous infectious agents such as Herpes B virus or Zika Virus.
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