Postdoctoral Associate - Houston, United States - Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

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Houston, United States

3 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Summary:

The postdoctoral associate will be co-mentored by Drs. Calarge and Xu in clinical and technical aspects, respectively, of neuroimaging in adolescents. Mentoring is a strong focus in Dr. Calarge and Dr. Xu's laboratories as demonstrated by prior successful pre-/post-doctoral fellowships awarded to members in the laboratories. All trainees are encouraged to pursue competitive fellowships with hands-on guidance and dedicated mentoring.

Typically, a fellowship proposal submission is expected by the end of the second year after a trainee joins the team.

Job Duties:

Specific neuroimaging analysis tasks include:
Subcortical susceptibility source separation into iron and myelin, especially in areas with low to medium iron content (e.g. caudate and putamen)
Quantifying subcortical spatial gradients or subregional features of ironrelated contrasts, such as quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), R2*, or T1w/T2w ratio
Calibrating MRIderived quantitative iron metrics in different subcortical regions from agedependent in vivo reproducibility datasets with ex vivo literature ("ground truth") values of subcortical iron concentrations
Characterizing developmental trajectory of subcortical distribution of brain iron, after separating the confounding myelin and iron concentration calibration
Identifying subcortical (sub)regions or spatial patterns of brain iron that are sensitive to iron deficiency in adolescents

Minimum Qualifications:

MD or Ph.

D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.

No experience required.

Preferred Qualifications:

PhD in Psychiatry, Psychology, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field.
Background in neuroimaging data analysis.
Proficient with neuroimaging analysis software (e.g., FSL, AFNI, SPM, FreeSurfer, Connectome workbench, etc.) and Shell Scripting.
Experience with Python or R language.
Experience conducting reproducibility neuroimaging studies.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.