Research Associate / Senior Research Associate In Neuroscience

University of Bristol; West of England; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Bristol is seeking a creative and motivated postdoctoral Research Associate / Senior Research Associate to study the formation and function of mouse brain circuits. The project is funded by a BBSRC grant focusing on prefrontal cortex circuits in a mouse model of autism, supervised by Dr Paul Anastasiades, Dr Emma Cahill and Dr Paul Chadderton.

You will join a dynamic, international team located in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience, with dedicated technical support and

Responsibilities

• Study the formation and function of mouse brain circuits.
• Collaborate within a dynamic international team in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Job description

The role

The University of Bristol is seeking to hire a creative and motivated postdoctoral Research Associate / Senior Research Associate to study the formation and function of mouse brain circuits. The collaborative project will be supervised by Dr Paul Anastasiades, Dr Emma Cahill and Dr Paul Chadderton. The study will combine a cutting-edge range of transgenic and viral tools, subcellular optogenetics, slice electrophysiology, and rodent behaviour in tandem with machine-learning based behavioural tracking and in vivo neural dynamics.

The role is part of a recently funded BBSRC grant to study how prefrontal cortex circuits are altered in a mouse model of autism. The project includes dedicated technical support, with a full-time technician also funded as part of the grant. You will join a dynamic, international team located in the newly formed School of Psychology and Neuroscience, with close ties to other circuit, systems and computational neuroscience labs at the University.

The project is part of wider efforts within the Anastasiades lab to understand the mechanisms of cortical circuit formation in health and disease. The study is motivated by emerging evidence linking the cerebellum to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and expands upon our exciting preliminary data and recent published work (for more information visit our