Posting Details

Position Information

School/College
School of Medicine

Title
Heersink School of Medicine - Instructor Research Faculty Position - Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine

Assignment Category
Full-Time

Rank
Instructor

Tenure Status
Non-Tenure Track

Payroll Status
Faculty 12

Job Description

The University of Alabama at Birmingham invites applications for an Instructor position in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. The Instructor will be expected to decode cell types and circuit mechanisms underlying chronic pain and its modulation by opioids. The main research focuses on synaptic and neural circuit mechanisms underlying chronic pain, chronic pain-induced mood disorders, and opioid analgesic tolerance and addiction by combining a range of cutting-edge techniques including mouse genetics, Patch-seq, in vivo recording of neural activity, optogenetic/chemogenetic tools, viral vector manipulation, electrophysiological recording, confocal imaging, and behavior. Recent achievements include identifying the novel synaptic mechanisms underlying the development of neuropathic pain and gabapentin therapeutic actions (Cell Reports, 2016, 2018, 2021), identifying the synaptic mechanism underlying comorbid depression-like and ketamine antidepressant-like actions in chronic pain (J Clin Invest, 2022), identifying the pathophysiological mechanism underlining neuropathic pain (Neuron, 2023), and uncovering the neural substance for morphine analgesic tolerance (In submission). Current lab research funding comes from R01s, R21s, DoDs, and a generous UAB startup package. For more details, please refer to (https://www.uab.edu/medicine/anesthesiology/research/labs/li-lab). The ideal candidate with over 3 years of post-doctoral fellowship and a strong background in slice patch-clamp recording, optogenetic manipulation, and/or in vivo calcium imaging will be helpful. Interested candidates, please forward your curriculum vitae to Dr. Lingyong Li by email: [email protected]. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Detailed information on the academic and clinical activities of the department can be found at http://medicine.uab.edu/anesthesiology/.

Required Qualifications

PhD

Preferred Qualifications

Posting Detail Information

Posting Number
F2129P

Open Date
05/01/2023

Close Date

Open Until Filled
No

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