Research Assistant

Job description

Department Overview The department of Behavioral Neuroscience performs cutting edge research and teaching focused on the neuroscience of behavior. The goal of the Wolf lab is to understand synaptic plasticity in the nucleus accumbens and related circuits that underlies this persistent vulnerability. We use the 'incubation of drug craving' model in which cue-induced drug craving in rats progressively intensifies (incubates) over the first weeks of abstinence from drug self-administration and then remains high for months. Function/Duties of Position: - Handling rats and implementing experimental protocols (e.g., weighing, giving injections/infusions, conducting surgical procedures, preparing for and conducting intravenous drug self-administration experiments, collecting data, and performing histology and immunohistochemistry). - Handling and breeding rats, and implementing experimental protocols required for maintenance of the breeding colony. - Recordkeeping, data organization and data management (e.g., experimental records, lab notebooks, drug logs, data entry, data checking, data summary, data analysis, data graphing). - Performing some lab management duties (e.g., coordinating sc...