Imaging Specialist

Requisition #
2025-21415

Date Posted
6 days ago(12/12/2025 11:49 AM)

Department: Princeton Neuroscience Inst

Category: Research and Laboratory

Job Type: Full-Time

Overview

Petascale EM Imaging Specialist

The Princeton Neuroscience Institute is searching for an accomplished scientist to lead acquisitions of petascale image datasets via volume electron microscopy (EM). The Institute is the only site in the world hosting beam deflection transmission EM and multibeam scanning EM instruments, both of which have sufficient throughput for petascale connectomics. The Institute leads the FlyWire Consortium, which in 2023 released the first connectome of an adult brain, that of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The Institute is a key performer in the NIH BRAIN CONNECTS program, which aims to scale connectomics up to the whole mouse brain.

This is a one-year term position with the possibility of extension contingent upon satisfactory performance and continued funding.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of EM sample by fixation, staining, and embedding
• MicroCT imaging of EM sample
• Cutting and collecting series of ultrathin sections