Union: Non-Union
Number of vacancies: 1
New or Replacement Position: New
Site: Krembil Research Institute
Department: Krembil Brain Institute
Reports to: Principal Investigator
Salary Range: $65,882 - $82,352 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Shifts: Monday to Friday
Status: Temporary Full-time (1 year contract with possibility of extension)
Closing Date: September 24, 2026
In the Levine lab, we focus on the spinal cord as the final point of neural control over body movement. The spinal cord contains the motoneurons that drive our muscles, the immediate premotor neurons that are the primary regulators of motoneuron activity, and the broader, as-yet-undefined networks of spinal neurons that transform sensory and descending cues into purposeful behavior. We have built extensive atlases of spinal cord cell types and we now want to understand how they act cooperatively to orchestrate movement.
We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to investigate whether, and how, cell types shape population activity and mediate specific elements of sensorimotor function. This work will bring together several powerful approaches recently developed and adapted in our lab including in vivo high density electrical recordings from the spinal cords of awake behaving mice, closed-loop optogenetics, spinal cell-type specific manipulation, quantitative behavioral tracking, and computational analysis of neural activity and behavior data (which could involve co-mentorship with an outside collaborator). There is significant opportunity to co-design and lead projects.