2024 BNA Scholars announced
15th March 2024
Deanery of Biomedical Sciences
The research goals of this PhD project would involve study of the circuits underlying natural social behaviours with a focus on behaviour that is ethologically relevant for the animal. We have a particular interest in kinship behaviour, mate choice and mechanisms of kin recognition, attachment and social learning in developmental time points. Techniques would involve a combination of in vivo and in vitro electrophysiology, imaging as well as circuit mapping and behavioural analyses. Projects aim to understand the neural mechanisms that support social behaviour in the healthy brain which would lay a foundation for study in disease. Experience in, or willingness to learn quantitative analysis methods for physiology and behaviour is encouraged.Deanery of Biomedical Sciences.