Join Our Team

Due to the number of applications the lab receives, please show that you’ve read this page by using Emily’s full last name (Dr. Aery Jones) in your initial correspondence.

Lab Technician

We’re not currently recruiting technicians.

PhD Students

The lab accepts students from the Neuroscience and Molecular Medicine graduate programs. Please email Emily to set up a meeting to discuss potential projects.

Postdoc

Please email Emily with (1) your CV, (2) a cover letter explaining your past research, future research interests, and why you’re interested in our lab, and (3) contacts for at least two references.

Qualifications:

Required:

• PhD in neuroscience, biology, engineering, or related field (already earned or anticipated within the next year)
• At least 1 first-author paper or preprint from your thesis work (or anticipated prior to graduation)
• Prior experience with in vivo or ex vivo neural recordings of some kind (any technique, any animal model)
• Enthusiastic about the lab’s research topics and the prospect of joining a new lab
• Detail-oriented, organized, and excels at planning and project management
• Agrees to uphold the lab’s philosophy

Bonus Points:

• History of fellowship applications, ideally successful
• Prior experience with our experimental techniques: in vivo freely moving electrophysiological recordings in rodents, hippocampal physiology, and/or optogenetics, aging and/or Alzheimer’s disease models and behaviors
• Prior experience with our analytical techniques: single unit analysis, local field potential analysis, unsupervised behavioral quantification, machine learning algorithms for neural data statistics
• Fluent in Python

High School and Undergraduate Students

We cannot accept high school interns due to safety concerns. We’re not currently recruiting undergraduate students.