Below you will find our postings for technicians, graduate students & postdocs, as well as instructions for how to apply. Before you get to the ads, please take a minute to read the section below.
First, happy people do better science and make better colleagues. Of course everyone wants to be happy, but the nature of science, and scientific evaluation, sometimes makes this hard. I'll work with each lab member so that we can all maintain a sense of pride with our work in the lab, even when experiments or life don't go as planned. Second, one of the core values of the lab is an emphasis on teamwork. Cooperative work has the potential to make individual efforts more fruitful, scientific practice more rigorous, and our many hours spent in the lab more enjoyable. Teamwork in the lab translates to shared authorship, open sharing of our methods, data, and findings, attending summer courses and workshops, and other measures of active engagement with the broader scientific community. Third, teamwork is not incongruent with individual responsibility and career development. To this end, I'll work with each lab member to make sure they develop an individualized career path, network, and scientific reputation. Finally, the communication of our work to the public is a part of our responsibility as government-funded scientists. Engagements with the public (outreach) will be a routine part of our work in the lab.
That's what I can offer. What I expect in return is a willingness to learn and be challenged, a willingness to give and specially to receive critical feedback, and a willingness to respect and champion other lab members.
Open Positions
To apply for any of the positions below: please email me your CV and a short description of your research experience, why you are interested in joining this lab specifically.
Research Technician: I'm currently hiring a research technician to help with our breeding colony and animal handling/training, among other lab duties. This is ideal for someone wanting more experience before grad school. All backgrounds welcome, experience with animals required, programming experience a plus. Candidate needs to be very responsible, punctual to a fault, and detail-oriented. Please apply here directly:
https://hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Cornell-University/Research-Technician-I---Sarvestani-Lab_R-3105
Graduate student:
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o succeed in the lab as a graduate student, experience with in vivo work or computer programming or electrical engineering is necessary.
Please get in touch if you're interested. In your email, include your CV, why you are specifically interested in this lab (vs other neurscience labs) and why you think your experience aligns well with the skillset required by the lab. To join the lab,
graduate students must be first admitted to the Graduate Program in Neurobiolgy & Behavior .
Post-doc/Research Scientist: I'm looking for postdocts, or senior research scientists, with experimental and computational training. For experimental applicants, the ideal background is experience recording brain activity in free moving animals. Ephys, 2P, in any brain region. Experience with motion capture, behavioral quantification, or closed-loop experimental designs also helpful. For computational applicants, ideal background is NeuroAI. Comfort with engineering, electronics, programming helps in my lab and most other systems neuroscience labs. Most projects include both experimental (calcium imaging/electrophysiology/behavior) and computational aspects and advanced programming in Matlab or python is a requirement.
Position is funded for 5 years. You would have access to the community of HHMI scientists and the option to become an employee of HHMI.