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During the Tulsa Race Massacre, which occurred over 18 hours from May 31 to June 1, 1921, a white mob attacked residents, homes and businesses in the predominantly Black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The event remains one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, and, for a period, remained one of the least-known: News reports were largely squelched, despite the fact that hundreds of people were killed and thousands left homeless. (Read More)
UMMA: Unearthing Tulsa: 100 Years Later. A conversation with Brent Staples, Fred Conrad, and Scott Ellsworth
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Race: The Power of An Illusion
Episode 3: The House We Live In: If race doesn't exist biologically, what is it? And why should it matter? Our final episode, "The House We Live In," is the first film about race to focus not on individual attitudes and behavior but on the ways our institutions and policies advantage some groups at the expense of others. Its subject is the "unmarked" race: white people.
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For graduate or professional students looking to gain knowledge and skills to help you become a more inclusive leader
Sponsored by Rackham and M-LEAD with partnership from leadership educators from across the Michigan Leadership Collaborative comes a new series on inclusive leadership. Graduate and professional students at U of M have the opportunity to attend one or all ten workshops in this summer series.
The workshop series will run every Tuesday and Thursday from June 1st until July 1st from 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM. Registration is required. You can use THIS LINK to view all sessions and descriptions and to register for the workshops.
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Neuroscience Seminars and Workshops
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Thursday, June 3rd at 11:45 a.m.
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HBCS Seminar Series
Dr. Yushi Hayashi, M.D., Ph.D. - Research Fellow; Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery - Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; Harvard Medical School will present:
“Norrie disease protein is essential for cochlear hair cell maturation. Cochlear supporting cells function as macrophage-like cells against pathogens”
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Thursday, June 3rd at 3 p.m.
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Neurology/Neuroscience Seminar
Samuel Terman, MD, MS, Research Fellow and Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, University of Michigan, will present:
“Medication adherence in epilepsy”
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Science Communication Series. Tuesdays! 4 - 5 pm
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MANAGING STRESS & ANXIETY
Tuesday, June 29 | 8:00-9:30 a.m. ET | REGISTER HERE!
** open to all, but targeted for international students **
Tuesday, July 27 | 5:30-7:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER HERE!
These FREE virtual education/support groups are a service of the U-M's Eisenberg Family Depression Center in partnership with the U-M Engineering’s C.A.R.E. Centerand Munger Graduate Residences, and are run by professional staff.
These Campus Mind Works wellness groups are open to any U-M student who is interested in obtaining information about stress, depression, anxiety and related conditions, and/or is interested in learning positive coping strategies to help address these issues. The groups are designed for education and support purposes only and are not intended to be a substitute for medical or mental health treatment.
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There's more to the Science Communication Series. Save the dates below! 4 - 5 pm
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Internal Postdoc Openings
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WATSON LAB 
The laboratory of Brendon Watson at the University of Michigan Medical School is searching for 1 full-time fully-funded postdoctoral fellow in systems neuroscience.
We seek a postdoctoral fellow to perform combined behavior and electrophysiology in rodents chronically in their homecages, with the goal of determining electrophysiologic correlates of stress and antidepressant treatment.
Our lab expertise is in electrophysiology and brain network function. In this project, we combine that with a novel system we have developed to record from animals over weeks in their homecages. This recording system classifies behavior at sub-second resolution while allowing multi-region electrophysiologic recordings simultaneously. In this study we will use this powerful system to study the effects of chronic stress on the electrophysiology of limbic system circuitry. We will also study how subsequent ketamine acts on those same circuits to potentially reverse stress effects.
We seek experimentalists with a PhD and expertise in in vivo electrophysiology and behavior with an interest in the neurobiology of mood-related circuits. Coding experience is preferred. We will work in collaboration with the machine learning group of Dr. Ivaylo Dinov.
We are at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, in the department of psychiatry and this project will be NIH funded. Positions will begin as early as July 1, 2021 and are funded for 1 year at the standard NIH postdoctoral fellow payscale with option to extend if it is mutually agreeable to both lab director and fellow.
The Watson Lab is committed to making neuroscience a more open and inclusive field, so we strongly encourage applications from individuals with non-traditional backgrounds or from underrepresented groups.
Interested applicants please reply to brendonw@umich.edu, Please include CV, letter of intent/summary of background and copies of published articles relevant to your application.
For more lab information: http://watsonneurolab.org/
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AHMED and SARTER LAB
The labs of Drs. Omar Ahmed (http://www.omarlab.org/) and Martin Sarter (https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/msarter/) at the University of Michigan are seeking two outstanding, driven postdoctoral fellows for research on a newly funded, five-year project on cortico-striatal circuitry and the integration of cognitive, spatial and motor functions. Together, the two labs combine state-of-the art methods and research approaches to conduct systems and behavioral neuroscience research. Our labs have enjoyed a record of continuous, high productivity and successful pre- and postdoctoral training. Our joint research is embedded in a larger, well-funded multi-disciplinary research program aimed at determining the neuronal circuitry underlying complex movement disorders in Parkinson’s disease. Therefore, trainees and their research will benefit from intense interactions with clinical researchers conducting converging research in patients. We seek trainees with prior training in systems and behavioral neuroscience in rodents and who aspire to a productive and visible career. For more information please contact Omar or Martin (ojahmed@umich.edu; msarter@umich.edu). Posting HERE.
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XU LAB
Dr. Shawn Xu’s lab in the Life Sciences Institute is seeking postdoctoral fellows to study sensory neuroscience. The Xu lab focuses on identifying novel sensory receptors and channels that sense temperature, touch, odors, tastants and light, and investigating how they regulate sensory signaling and behavior using both C. elegans and mouse models. See details at: https://www.lsi.umich.edu/science/our-labs/xz-shawn-xu-lab. Email contact: shawnxu@umich.edu
APOSTOLIDES LAB
Information here
LI LAB
The laboratory of Dr. Peng Li at the Life Sciences Institute of the University of Michigan is seeking postdoctoral fellows to study neural control of breathing (http://www.lsi.umich.edu/labs/peng-li-lab).
Contact Peng Li, PhD
LOWENSTEIN LAB
Information here
DUS LAB
The Dus lab has an open postdoctoral position to study how dietary environment persistently alters sensory and reward circuits to promote maladaptive behaviors in flies and rodents. Techniques used in the lab are in vivo imaging, behavior, molecular biology, neuro & optogenetics, and genomics. Interested candidates should apply by emailing mdus@umich.edu.
DUAN LAB
Seeking postdoc with extensive experience in developmental biology for an NSF-funded project on brain development in zebrafish.
Please email: Cuming Duan, PhD
RAPHAEL LAB
Postdoctoral position is available for gene editing of auditory neurons in cultured explants and in vivo. Please contact Yehoash Raphael for more information.
BORJIGIN LAB
Please email Dr. Borjigin directly for more information.
EBAN-ROTHSCHILD LAB
Neuronal Circuitry of Sleep and Wakefulness using highly innovative techniques. For details please contact: adae@umich.edu.
WALDHAUS LAB
Seeking a postdoctoral candidate with interest in Regenerative Medicine of the inner ear. The study is about tracing the process of auditory hair cell regeneration at single cell level and whole transcriptome resolution. Information
SATIN LAB
A NIH-funded POSTDOCTORAL position is available immediately in the Satin Lab for a PhD or an MD to study stimulus-secretion coupling mechanisms and ion channels in mouse and human pancreatic islets. Candidates should have experience in live cell imaging, image acquisition and analysis, molecular biology, and using adenoviruses to express novel optical probes in cells, as well as other proteins. Experience in patch clamping would be an additional strength, as is knowledge of ion channel physiology, metabolic biochemistry, and/or familiarity with mathematical models.
Interested individuals should supply a current CV and the names of 3 individuals who could be used as references directly to Les Satin, PhD
OLSON LAB
The Olson lab is focused on understanding the neurons and neural circuitry within the central nervous system that regulate feeding, energy balance and metabolism. We combine neuron-specific Cre recombinase expressing transgenic mouse lines with stereotaxic delivery of Cre-inducible viruses to acutely and chronically manipulate subsets of neurons in order to understand their physiologic functions. Active project areas include genetic dissection of the paraventricular hypothalamus, ventromedial hypothalamic regulation of blood glucose and mechanisms of feeding regulation housed in the lateral parabrachial nucleus. We currently have an opening for a post-doctoral fellow interested in the central control of energy balance. The ideal candidate will have a working knowledge of rodent neuroanatomy, an interest in physiology and exposure to rodent surgery. Interested candidates should contact Dr. David Olson: dpolson@med.umich.edu.
SHORE LAB
Research fellow Kresge Institute
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External Postdoc Openings
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Postdoctoral Position - Neuronal circuits, breathing and vocalization
Charite Universitatsmedizin – Berlin, Germany
Hernandez-Miranda's Lab
A three-year full-time postdoctoral position is available in the group of Dr. Luis R. Hernandez-Miranda at the Institut für Zell- und Neurobiologie of the Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin. We are looking for a candidate with experience in at least one of the following areas: i) single-cell sequencing (wet-lab or computational), ii) Electrophysiology (patch-clamp, calcium imaging, motor root recordings), and/or iii) monosynaptic rabies tracing. Our research focuses on the brainstem control of respiration and other orofacial behaviors, such as vocalization. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree relevant to neuroscience or molecular biology. Experienced postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will work closely with the PI and other members of the team, perform experiments, write manuscripts, and participate in Institutional seminars and other activities. The ideal candidate will have excellent technical and communication skills, as well as a willingness to work well with others. Please submit a cover letter, CV, the reprint(s) of any recent paper(s) in which you are the first/lastauthor, and the names/emails for two references to luis.hernandez-miranda@charite.de
by May 31st, 2021. Online interviews will be conducted in the first week of June 2021. The
position is immediately available (ideally from August 1st, 2021, but a later starting date can be negotiated).
Informal queries can be sent to luis.hernandez-miranda@charite.de.
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Postdoctoral Position in Neurological Sciences
Rush University Medical Center – Chicago, IL
The laboratory of Alana Kirby MD PhD is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to join research efforts on pathophysiology and treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The fellow’s project will focus on neural function and circuitry, and the effect of neurostimulation therapy, i.e., deep brainstimulation (DBS) on these parameters in rodent models of Parkinson’s disease. The contributions of individual neural circuits to beneficial and adverse effects of DBS in Parkinson’s disease will be interrogated using electrical, optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations to isolate neural circuits of
interest. Behavioral, electrophysiologic and pathophysiologic output measures will be tailored to individual circuit function. Within the scope of this project, there is significant flexibility for the postdoctoral fellow to also pursue their own interests through the selection of target circuits and outcomes for evaluation of motor (e.g., gait, bradykinesia, vocalization, dyskinesia) and non-motor(e.g., cognition, anxiety, depression, apathy, sleep) outcomes. The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to work with several key collaborators, including T. Celeste Napier PhD, Director of the Center for Compulsive Behavior and Addiction. Dr. Kirby is an Assistant Professor in the Movement
Disorders Division of the Department of Neurological Sciences at Rush University Medical Center. This Division is a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment with physicians and scientists in a world class center for care of patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Interested individuals should email Dr. Alana Kirby at Alana_E_Kirby@Rush.edu with a letter of interest, current curriculum vitae, and contact information for two references.
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Please refer to this list of predoctoral funding opportunities for more information.
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