- Vacancy Reference Number
- IN093
- Closing Date
- 1 Feb 2018
- Salary
- £14,553
- Address
- Newcastle University
Institute of Neuroscience
Framlington Place
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH
- Duration
- 3 years
The Institute of Neuroscience of Newcastle University (UK) is looking for a PhD student to investigate the effect of stress on brain structure and function. You will first identify which routine husbandry/experimental procedures have a long-lasting detrimental impact on the well-being of laboratory primates.
You will then investigate the effect of these stressors on brain structure and function using sophisticated computational approaches (e.g. shape and connectivity analyses). You will work in a multi-disciplinary environment, with a team composed of neuroscientists, animal welfare scientists, psychiatrists, computational scientists and physicists.
You will be responsible for acquiring and analysing behavioural data (from video recordings of home-cage behaviour) and MRI data (T1, T2, DTI and resting-state fMRI). You will have the opportunity to answer basic research questions about stress biology as well as more applied questions relevant to the well-being of laboratory animals and human patients suffering from stress-related mood disorders.
Further Information
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/allstudents/in092.html
Contact Details
colline.poirier@ncl.ac.uk
