Connectionists: lab coordinator position

[Sara C. Mednick]

We are seeking a full-time lab manager position in Sara Mednick’s Sleep and
Cognition (SaC) Lab at UC Riverside. The Sleep and Cognition (SaC) Lab is
interested in understanding who we are as humans by investigating how we
form memories.



Our research investigates:

Basic mechanisms of encoding, consolidation and retrieval

Sleep-dependent consolidation processes

Neuromodulators associated with memory formation

Performance enhancement using pharmacology and sleep

Computational models of sleep-dependent learning



We are currently funded by NIH, NSF, and the Department of Defense.



The position requires a Bachelor's degree and computer skills (Matlab
programming knowledge is a plus). Duties include recruiting and running
subjects, managing undergraduate research assistants, orchestrating dozens
of projects conducted by postdocs, graduate students and undergraduate
researchers, overseeing day-to-day operations, helping with IRB protocols,
and helping with data analysis. Experience in a sleep lab is favorable but
not necessary. This position includes the opportunity to pursue a variety
of research opportunities that can result in authorship on academic
publications. We are specifically looking for someone interested in
pursuing an academic career. All previous lab managers gained authorship on
several manuscripts and became grad students either in the SaC lab or a
different graduate program in psychology.



Superb organizational skills are a must, as the position requires
simultaneously overseeing several projects and maintaining a large corpus
of data from EEG, fMRI (UCR is getting an fMRI scanner in Dec 2015), and
behavioral measures. Preference will be given to those with prior related
research experiences and/or an interest in future research. The position is
to start in August 2015 (with some flexibility), and a one-year commitment
is required (with the possibility of additional time). Interested
applicants should email Sara Mednick at smednick at ucr.edu and include a
CV/Resume and the names and contact information for 3 references.
Information about the research program can be seen here:
www.sleepandcognitionlab.org



-- 
Assistant Professor
University of California, Riverside
Department of Psychology
Sleep and Cognition (SaC) Lab
www.saramednick.com
www.sleepandcognitionlab.org
TEDx Talk <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MklZJprP5F0>

Amandla awethu!
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