Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR
Research Assistant US-OR-Portland Requisition ID: 2026-38923 Position Category: Research Job Type: Research Position Type: Regular Full-Time Posting Department: Behavioral Neuroscience Posting Salary Range: $23.18 - $33.02 per hour, with offer based on experience, education and internal equity Posting FTE: 1.00 Posting Schedule: Monday - Friday; occasional evenings and weekends as needed HR Mission: School of Medicine Drug Testable: No LinkedIn Job Code: LI-LP1 Department Overview The Mello (Dept. Behavioral Neuroscience) and von Gersdorff (Vollum) labs have close collaborative projects (funded by the NIH and NSF) to study the neurobiology of vocal learning, using as model organism the zebra finch, a songbird species. We use a combination of molecular, neuroanatomical, behavioral, electrophysiological and computational approaches to understand how the specialized vocal control brain circuitry enables male zebra finches to produce complex learned...