The Scherrer Lab welcomes applications from highly motivated students and postdocs interested in investigating pain and opioid biology.

If you are interested in joining us, please contact Prof. Greg Scherrer by email at gregory_scherrer@med.unc.edu

Graduate students. One Biological & Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP) graduate student, Kayla Richardson, joined the Scherrer Lab in 2022. We are still determining our availability for rotating students 2023-2024.

The Scherrer Lab is recruiting postdoctoral researchers. Successful candidates will be investigating the neural circuits and molecular mechanisms that underlie pain perception and opioids’ actions, using a variety of approaches including mouse genetics, neural circuit tracing, electrophysiology, opto-/chemo-genetics, in vivo calcium imaging, behavior, transcriptomics, or cell and molecular biology techniques. A strong background in the pain and opioid fields and/or expertise in the above mentioned techniques is necessary. Specifically, we are looking for talented neurophysiologists with experience with whole-cell recordings from neurons in brain or spinal cord slices.

Undergraduate students. The Scherrer Lab is not currently accepting applications from undergraduate students interested in contributing to our research.