Seeking PhD students and postdoctoral fellow | University of Toronto

Job Description

Open Positions (pre-recruitment):

We are seeking PhD students and postdoctoral fellows to join our team researching the neural basis of motor control. In the Fall of 2026, the Levine Lab will start a new chapter at the Krembil Brain Institute at the University of Toronto’s UHN (University Health Network) in Toronto, Canada.

We study how groups of spinal neurons work together to enact behavior, transforming sensory and descending cues from the brain into coordinated movements. We hope to use this knowledge to improve therapies for patients with spinal cord injury or stroke. Over the past several years, our lab has built up an exciting array of techniques and resources: detailed atlases of cell types, genetic and viral tools to control particular populations, circuit tracing, in vivo spinal electrophysiology in awake behaving mice, closed loop optogenetics, and new assays for mouse behavior. Now, we will integrate these approaches to ask how neural function is instantiated in specific neural elements.

If you share our interests and vision, and would like to join our collaborative team, please visit our website (https://www.levine-lab.org) to learn more.