
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York
,United States

Program Name
PhD in Neuroscience

Deadline
February 14th, 2026
Overview
Postdoctoral Position in Neural Mechanisms of Social Cognition Dr. Xiaoting Wu’s lab at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NYC) is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow to join our team. Our lab explores how neural population dynamics, neural circuit and synaptic plasticity support social cognitive behaviors including social memory, and decision-making. To tackle these questions, we take a multidisciplinary approach that spans molecular, synaptic, and systems neuroscience using techniques such as optogenetics, miniscope imaging, slice electrophysiology, and single-cell transcriptomics.
Ranking
#57
US World and News Report
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