Funded PhD in Neural Circuits for Instinctive Behaviours The Francis Crick Institute in United Kingdom

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Neuroscience at the University of Exeter through the GW4 BioMed MRC Doctoral Training Partnership . Project title: How sights become signals for learning This project asks how the brain learns that a previously meaningless visual cue predicts something important, building on recent findings that activity in the superior colliculus is required for dopamine responses to learned visual cues. The student will investigate how visual information gains access to dopamine...

PhD opportunity at The Francis Crick Institute in circuit mechanisms underlying multisensory integration in the superior colliculus . This funded PhD project with Florencia Iacaruso focuses on neuroscience , multisensory integration , superior colliculus , calcium imaging , and connectomics . The project asks how visual, auditory, and somatosensory inputs converge onto distinct neuronal populations and how cortical and subcortical circuits shape multisensory computations. Methods include custom ...

PhD opportunity in Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Behavioural Biology at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge, United Kingdom). This project, supervised by Dr W Schafer, focuses on neuropeptide networks and how “wireless” neuronal communication shapes behaviour. The first part uses C. elegans to study neuropeptide signaling in feeding circuits, including how peptides and receptors related to human hypothalamic appetite pathways regulate feeding and starva...

Funded PhD opportunity at The Francis Crick Institute in London, United Kingdom, with Dr Petr Znamenskiy. The project is titled Cell types, connectivity, and computation: reconstructing molecularly annotated connectome of the mouse visual cortex and sits at the intersection of neuroscience, molecular biology, computational biology, and bioengineering. The Znamenskiy lab studies how neural circuits in the neocortex are organised and how their connectivity supports computation. The work focuses on...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurobiology and Behaviour at the University of Sussex , based in Brighton, UK, in the laboratory of Professor Claudio Alonso . The project focuses on neural development and function in Drosophila , with an emphasis on how molecular biology of neurons relates to the development and function of neural circuits. The successful candidate will join the Alonso lab and work closely with group members and UK/international collaborators in a vibrant neuroscience environme...