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| Posting Summary | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Brain Health Institute.
Under the direction of the Principal Investigator performs experiments to examine how the orexin system interacts with stress and reward circuitries in an animal model of addiction, and how these circuits are involved in substance abuse disorders. This knowledge will facilitate the development of orexin-based therapies that can effectively treat the multifaceted symptoms associated with addiction. This Post Doc Fellow will perform research into brain substrates of addiction using advanced behavioral economic and other behavioral, chemogenetic and neuroscience approaches in rodent drug self-administration models. Research will use orexin-cre rats and local microinjections of DIO viral vectors into brain, immunohistochemical analyses, as well as assays for addiction-like behavioral phenotype to identify brain circuits responsible for addiction.
Among the key duties of this position are the folloiwng: - Performs various research and technical operations relative to ongoing investigatory activities of a laboratory; may assist in conducting specialized research for a particular phase of a project.
- Participates in the development of performance standards, selection of methodology and instrumentation and coordination of the analytical, biochemical, anatomical, physiological and instrumentation functions in the research areas to ensure conformance with the goals and objectives of the department.
- Conduct behavioral, anatomic, chemogenetic, pharmacological and chemogenetic experiments in rodents to delineate mechanisms underlying opioid abuse.
- Conduct conditioned place preference, and learning and memory tasks, intracerebral infusions, and pharmacological manipulations in rodents to develop novel therapeutic approaches to prevent development of addiction propensity during chronical administration of prescription opioids.
- Perform small animal surgeries, including stereotaxic surgery and jugular vein catheterization.
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