Neuroscience research group is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate with a focus on research aims to understand how drugs of abuse and stress mediate behavioral, molecular, and cellular plasticity. A multifaceted approach from molecules to behavior is used. Techniques used in the lab include animal behavior, confocal microscopy, gene therapy, and molecular techniques to help elucidate how drugs of abuse hijack the brain's reward pathway. Our laboratory specializes in applying advanced molecular/viral manipulations to sophisticated behaviors, most often in rodent models of drug seeking and relapse-like behaviors. Applicants should have a deep enthusiasm for investigating the cellular & behavioral mechanisms of psychiatric disorders. 

Please send a cover letter and C.V.  to Dr. David Dietz  ddietz@buffalo.edu

Our laboratory is located in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomdical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, a research-intensive public university and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU). It is a flagship institution in the State University of New York system and its largest and most comprehensive campus.

The Jacobs School of Medicine is housed in a state of the art new 628,000-square foot medical school building which opened 2017/18.  This new building in the heart of Buffalo has state of the art learning and research facilities to attract and retain world-class faculty, post doctoral associates, and students.