PhD student in Neuroscience (Effects of Virtual Reality on Neural Activity and Behavior) (m/f/d)

Your Profile:

• We are looking for a candidate with a background in neuroscience, neurobiology,
  
• computational neuroscience, or a related field who is excited about combining
  
• experimental and quantitative approaches.

Essential qualifications:
• A university degree (Master's or equivalent) in neuroscience, neurobiology, biology,
  
• biomedical sciences, or a related discipline
  
• Experience with or a strong interest in neuroscience and animal behavior
  
• Good programming skills, preferably Python
  
• Basic knowledge of statistics and quantitative data analysis
  
• Ability to work independently while contributing actively to a collaborative research
  
• team
  
• Motivation to learn and apply advanced experimental and computational methods
  
• Experience with FELASA-certified laboratory animal training is an advantage but not
  
• essential and can be acquired during the project, where applicable.

Additional skills that would be advantageous:
• Experience with rodent behavioural training and/or in vivo experiments
  
• Calcium imaging and/or optogenetics
  
• Arduino or other microcontroller-based systems
  
• Basic electronics and circuit design
  
• Machine learning or computational neuroscience

Your Tasks:

• Designing and conducting behavioral experiments with mice in virtual and real
  
• environments
  
• Performing two-photon calcium imaging of neuronal activity
  
• Applying holographic optogenetics to selectively manipulate neuronal populations
  
• (see Ammer et al., 2024)
  
• Contributing to the design and development of a novel two-photon miniscope
  
• Characterizing and validating the newly developed miniscope in vivo
  
• Analyzing and modelling the resulting behavioural and neural data
  
• Contributing to the interpretation and publication of the findings

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