Dr. Gabard-Durnam is hiring up to two postdoctoral fellows to join the Plasticity in Neurodevelopment (PINE) Lab community. Postdoctoral fellows would start in the summer of 2026. If you are a senior graduate student interested in doing postdoctoral studies with PINE Lab, please submit an application here. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Dr. Gabard-Durnam specifically encourages individuals from under-represented groups in science to apply.
We have funding to support projects across a variety of datasets (see Studies). Fellows may pursue any combination of projects to best build their programs of research.
Topics of interest within the overarching theme of experience-driven neurodevelopment include but are certainly not limited to early neuroplasticity mechanisms (indexed by EEG, MR-methods, or both), sensitive periods that scaffold language, vision, and cognitive development from infancy through childhood, and parsing the early environment’s influence on neurodevelopment (dimensions of experiences, caregiver inputs, adverse and buffering/promotional experiences, and evaluating public health interventions in infancy on brain and behavior development).