$110,000 - $140,000 yearly
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
Department Princeton Neuroscience Inst Category Research and Laboratory Job Type Full-Time Overview Petascale EM Imaging Specialist The Princeton Neuroscience Institute is searching for an accomplished scientist to lead acquisitions of petascale image datasets via volume electron microscopy (EM). The Institute is the only site in the world hosting beam deflection transmission EM and multibeam scanning EM instruments, both of which have sufficient throughput for petascale connectomics. The Institute leads the FlyWire Consortium, which in 2023 released the first connectome of an adult brain, that of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster . The Institute is a key performer in the NIH BRAIN CONNECTS program, which aims to scale connectomics up to the whole mouse brain. This is a one-year term position with the possibility of extension contingent upon satisfactory performance and continued funding. Responsibilities Preparation of EM sample by fixation,...