Research Technician- Brainard Lab

Primary Work Address: 1550 4th Street, Suite 190, San Francisco, CA, 94158-0724

We are seeking several Research Technicians to support the lab of Dr. Michael Brainard in our neuroscience research group at the University of California, San Francisco. Michael Brainard is interested in how experience acts on the nervous system to shape behavior. Brainard and his team want to understand how the nervous system changes over the course of development to give rise to critical periods for learning, and how individuals’ innate variations interact with experience to give rise to differences in learned behaviors. The team focuses on vocal learning in songbirds as a model system to investigate these questions, employing a variety of behavioral, neurophysiological, and genetic approaches. More information on the lab can be found on their website

We are looking for a motivated individual to join a team using behavioral, neurophysiological and molecular approaches to investigate...