Lin Lab at UofT

Positions

We are a multi-disciplinary team, and we are always looking for highly self-motivated students with quantitative skills and a strong interest in neuroscience to join us. We provide mentorship and support to nurture future neuroscientists in an open, diverse, and inclusive environment.

Undergraduate Student Positions

Update on 2024-07-29: current full, except for highly determined and motivated students with strong engineering/math/CS backgrounds.

Potential undergraduate student positions (course projects CSB497/498 & BCB330/430, summer research awards, volunteers, work-study, etc) are available in our lab.

Please follow this link: https://forms.gle/5TJKof5J58SWQETv5

Qian checks the Google forms at least every 2 weeks and reads ALL the applications.

Graduate Student Positions

Please fill in this form if you are interested in graduate student positions: https://forms.gle/i2FTesk1GvaTxYYf9

As our lab is in the Department of Cell & Systems Biology (CSB), please also apply for the CSB graduate program (here) in parallel.

Potential fellowships:

Postdoctoral Positions

  • A postdoc in optics or physics: maintain and operate 2p microscopes (primary responsibility), assist in building behavioral rigs, perform systems neuroscience research, and potentially build cost-effective microscopes optimized for neural recordings in zebrafish. Funding is available for 3-5 years. Application is open until 2024-12-31.
  • A potential postdoc in computational neuroscience Funding will be subject to future grants or postdoc fellowships. https://datasciences.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral-fellowship/, https://schmidtfellows.utoronto.ca/apply/

If you are interested in our postdoc positions, please email Qian Lin with the application materials:

  1. A cover letter that explains why you are interested in our research, and what you plan to do in our lab;
  2. CV highlighting your skill sets and publications;
  3. Contact information for two reference letters.