The NEST (Neuroendocrinology of Social Ties) Lab at the University of Southern California is seeking an postdoctoral fellow with neuroimaging experience and a laboratory manager.
Our HATCH study follows couples from pregnancy across the first year postpartum, and samples multimodal hormonal and psychosocial data to document couples' changes and coregulation across the transition to parenthood.
The postdoc will help coordinate an MRI study of first-time fathers who will be scanned prenatally and postpartum. Structural, functional, and resting state data will be collected. Extensive previous experience with MRI data acquisition, preprocessing, and analysis (preferably using FSL) is essential, along with an interest in hormonal and psychological processes across the transition to parenthood.
The laboratory manager's duties will include running prenatal and postpartum visits with couples, including saliva, hair, and blood collection and processing; recruiting and scheduling participants; supervising undergraduate RAs; overseeing data entry and
transcription; shipment of biomarker samples for assay; and administration of the lab (including ordering supplies and processing reimbursements). Phlebotomy certification is a major plus as you will be conducting blood draws.
To apply, please send a CV and a statement of your interest in the position to dsa...@usc.edu.
To apply, please send a CV and a statement of your interest in the position to dsa...@usc.edu.