The successful applicant will join a translational neuroscience research project within the Department of Pharmaceutics led by Dr. Melissa Barker-Haliski. The is a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative project at the interface of preclinical epilepsy and Alzheimer?s disease research, with a focus on the behavioral and pathophysiological elucidation of the mechanisms of hyperexcitability in the aging and degenerating brain. This research project pairs transgenic models with a diversity of behavioral techniques and provides the opportunity to interact with scientists and clinicians from different fields of neuroscience and neurology. The project also provides the opportunity to apply novel molecular neuroscience techniques to the study of behavioral neu