This position is in the laboratory of Daniel Wonjae Chung, MD, PhD, which is part of the Translational Neuroscience Program in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. The lab's team conducts postmortem and computational research to increase our understanding of the synaptic disruptions that lead to working memory deficits in schizophrenia. This position is grant funded.

Responsibilities:

Mentor, train, and assist with supervising junior research staff. Provide advanced level research and/or clinical and administrative support for the research study including preparing and presenting presentations, analyzing and interpreting data, collaborating with principal investigator on manuscripts, scientific articles, and grant submissions. Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors. Performs other duties as assigned. Conduct Execute postmortem studies, including expansion microscopy, nanoscale imaging and post-image processing. Oversee lab organization, assist with recruitment and staff supervision, and help to plan, coordinate and supervise research projects and lab experiments/procedures. Collect and analyze data, and prepare results for scientific presentations and publication. Provides operational oversight of the basic science research and instrumentation.