Postdoctoral Fellow: Bolding Lab

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Description The Monell Chemical Senses Center was founded in 1968 as the world’s first nonprofit scientific institute devoted exclusively to basic research on the chemical senses: taste, smell, and chemosensory irritation. Research at Monell contributes to a wide range of scientific and practical knowledge. With more than fifty Ph.D.-level scientists, the Center is making major progress toward understanding how the chemical senses function and their importance in everyday life. The Center is located in the University City area of Philadelphia. For more information on Monell please visit our website at www.monell.org . The Bolding Lab at the Monell Chemical Senses Center is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow to carry out large-scale electrophysiological and optogenetic studies aimed at determining how odor recognition memories are embedded in cortical networks. Our goal is to discover fundamental rules and mechanisms that govern information storage and retrieval in neural systems. Our primary focus is establishing the changes in neural circuit and population dynamics that correspond to odor recognition memory. We will apply quantitative statistical approaches to relate behavioral sign...