Postdoctoral Fellow: Gene networks in substance use and substance use disorders

This vacancy for a talented Postdoctoral Fellow is available at the Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE) of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). The ICPE performs high-quality research on common mental disorders at the crossroads of various disciplines, and offers attractive career perspectives for motivated, gifted Postdoctoral Fellows who are driven by curiosity and have a strong interest in multidisciplinary research.

The ICPE is part of the University Center of Psychiatry (UCP) of the UMCG. The UCP offers state of the art and innovative treatments to psychiatric patients, and has competitive research programs. The UCP includes about 450 employees who work in psychiatric health care, research, or both. The UCP offers excellent training for psychiatrists, psychologists, and other disciplines.

The project
Substance use and substance use disorders are complex traits caused by multiple interacting genetic and environmental risk factors. The exact mechanisms of these traits including molecular pathways are still unknown. This project investigates the cascade of molecular effects between SNPs and substance use and substance use disorders while disentangling the genetic effects on parental and home environments. In our multidisciplinary and international team, we have a position (4 year, 0.8-1.0 fte) available for a Postdoctoral Fellow with a strong background in behavioral genetics, statistical genetics or biostatistics. This multidisciplinary project combines knowledge and methods from molecular genetics, molecular biology, and psychiatry to investigate causal mechanisms of substance use and substance use disorders.