News from the PWN Pipeline
Selectively erasing methamphetamine-associated memories
PWN's co-founder, Dr. Courtney Miller, speaks to Vice Magazine about research from her lab focused on selectively isolating and erasing methamphetamine-associated memories in a preclinical model of meth addiction. This is an innovative new approach for disrupting long-established drug-cue associations that can later trigger or accelerate relapse to drug use.
"Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan."
As this article suggests, sometimes the price of success is the cost of admitting and 'owning' your failures. As experiences accumulate across the course of a career, evaluating missteps, missed opportunities, and/or failed ventures may provide useful perspectives for building more successful outcomes.
'The environment has been prepared for women to do whatever they want.'
An illuminating look at the growing prominence of women who are outperforming men in STEM-related fields in the Middle East. Governments investing heavily in women's education and STEM fields has launched a new generation of Middle Eastern women students who learn coding in high school, are actively developing apps and new software, and have goals to be technology entrepreneurs.
Advancement opportunities
Postdoctoral position managing the Behavioral Neuroscience Core Facility at University of Dundee
Great opportunity for behavioral neuroscientist to design and conduct studies utilizing variety of behavioral tasks and phenotyping offered by the BNCF, and to train others to do the same.
Details and application portal in the link
General inquiries: Dr. Stephen Martin | s.martin@dundee.ac.uk
Application due October 30th, 2013
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