Posting Description

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE IN BRAIN/SPINAL CORD ELECTRICAL STIMULATION AND RECORDING IN-VIVO IN MICE/RATS, Program in Media Arts and Sciences-Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek, to join a group that is developing extremely miniaturized micro-nano-devices that probe and electrically modulate our biological system, especially the brain.  Will configure and implement these devices for brain/spinal cord stimulation and recording in healthy mice/rats as well as models of neurological diseases such a neuropathic pain, Alzheimer's, traumatic brain injury and stroke, etc.; design and implement research projects; perform research to characterize and validate the devices in cultured neurons; inject or implant the devices in mouse brain/spinal cord or peripheral nervous system (PNS); characterize and validate the devices in-vivo in mice/rats; perform stimulation and/or recording of the central nervous system (CNS); and demonstrate application in the case of above-mentioned diseases. 

A full job description is available at https://www.media.mit.edu/about/job-opportunities/.