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Undergraduates: ENDURE prepares for neuroscience PhD programs
Application deadline Feb 3
Program combines research training, a rigorous curriculum and empowering support system; funding for up to two years
Questions? Contact endure@wustl.edu.
Posted 11/11/2024
Spring 2025 NanoCourses
Registration deadline: Jan 23
Neuroimmunology; Topics in Computational Neuroscience; Pain; Glial Biology; Sex Differences in Animal Behavior and Psychiatric Disorders
Questions? Contact Thomas Papouin.
Posted 11/7/2024
Call for applications: REC Scholar Program
Deadline Jan 10
The Research Education Component (REC) Scholar Program supports career development of late post-doctoral or early junior faculty candidates as future leaders in Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia research
Questions? Contact Emma Swinford.
Posted 10/30/2024
Jinkyung Kim Lab (Otolaryngology): Postdoc and research assistant positions
Auditory coding and processing
Lab focus: To understand the receptive properties of peripheral sound encoding, where the auditory circuit begins, and to further explore the circuit map that leads to the midbrain and auditory cortex
Questions? Contact Jinkyung Kim.
Posted 10/29/2024
Introduction to R – Using R for Downstream Analysis of Single Cell Data
Nov 19
Introducing a series of steps for Single Cell data exploration – from cell clustering tools and techniques to cell annotations and pathway analysis
Questions? Contact Maze Ndukum.
Posted 10/23/2024
Tenure Track Assistant Professor position: Applications accepted starting Nov 1
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Molecular neurobiology of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders
Questions? Contact Vivek Swarup.
Posted 10/22/2024
2024 AuRA Conference
Nov 18-19; Registration deadline Nov 1
Two-day conference featuring Karen Avraham (Tel Aviv University), Frank Lin (Johns Hopkins University), Tobias Moser (University Medical Center Göttingen)
Questions? Contact Emily Harvey and neuroscience-programsandevents@email.wustl.edu.
Posted 10/22/2024
NGI Pilot Grant Program
LOIs due Dec 7
We encourage applications from new investigators and established PIs interested in transitioning from animal or cell models to human data.
Questions? Contact neurogenomics@wustl.edu.
Posted 10/17/2024
Stem Cell Models of Neurodegeneration International Symposium
Mar 26-28 (Edinburgh, UK); Abstract deadline Jan 31; Registration deadline Mar 7
To understand and develop treatments for neurodegenerative disease
Questions? Contact Kathryn Bowles.
Posted 10/16/2024
Fellows to Faculty Award: Request for applications
Application deadline Jan 14
Carlos Cruchaga lab (NeuroGenomics and Informatics Center; Psychiatry): Multiple postdoc positions
Proteomics and multiomics in neurodegeneration
To analyze brain, CSF and blood, multi-omic data (transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics), from a large collection of well-characterized samples to identify novel biomarker and causal and druggable targets
Questions? Contact Christi Gleason.
Posted 10/10/2024
Carlos Cruchaga lab (NeuroGenomics and Informatics Center; Psychiatry): Multiple postdoc positions
Genetics and genomics of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease
Expertise in Whole Genome and Exome data, colocalization, Mendelian Randomization, and TWAS/Fusion approaches to lead effort to identify new genes involved in AD etiology
Questions? Contact Christi Gleason.
Posted 10/10/2024