Postdoctoral Position
Employer: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
Description: A postdoctoral research position is available in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. We are looking for a Ph.D. or M.D. scientist with research experience in molecular biology. Expertise in cloning or viral vector is desirable. The successful candidate will participate in two NIH funded projects on the genetic mechanisms of nicotine dependence and schizophrenia/autism in mouse models.

Please send a CV and three names of reference to Dr. Noboru Hiroi (hiroi@aecom.yu.edu).

Recent Publications:
Zhu H, Lee M, Agatsuma S, Hiroi N. (2007) Pleiotropic impact of constitutive fosB inactivation on nicotine-induced behavioral alterations and stress-related traits in mice. Hum Mol Genet. 16(7):820-36.

Agatsuma S, Lee M, Zhu H, Chen K, Shih JC, Seif I, Hiroi N.(2006)
Monoamine oxidase A knockout mice exhibit impaired nicotine preference but normalresponses to novel stimuli. Hum Mol Genet. 15(18):2721-31.

Hiroi N, Zhu H, Lee M, Funke B, Arai M, Itokawa M, Kucherlapati R, Morrow B,Sawamura T, Agatsuma S. (2005) A 200-kb region of human chromosome 22q11.2 confers antipsychotic-responsive behavioral abnormalities in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102(52):19132-7.

Hiroi N, Agatsuma S.(2005) Genetic susceptibility to substance dependence. Mol Psychiatry. 10(4):336-44.