About the role

We invite applications for a postdoctoral research position (start date flexible). The candidate will be incorporated into a recently established project of ERC (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101088598) and Spanish ministry funded research based at the Institute of Neurosciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The project aims to gain a mechanistic understanding of the circuits through which the brain can internally generate structured cortical neural activity during sleep (e.g. realistic simulations of episodic experiences during dreaming, and precise reactivations of neurons encoding recent experiences), how this activity is coordinated between brain regions, and the function it serves.

Several specific lines of research are possible, and the precise project will be agreed in discussion with the candidate. Where required the candidate will be trained in the use state-of-the-art in vivo 2-photon calcium imaging, optogenetic and virtual reality approaches to measure and perturb neural circuits in awake behaving and sleeping mice at cellular and subcellular resolution.

Please write to adam.ranson@uab[REMOVE THIS TEXT].cat if you have enquires about suitability etc.

About UAB and the Institute of Neurosciences

The Institut de Neurociències (INc) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB; http://inc.uab.cat) is one of Spain’s premier research institutions in the field of brain and nervous system disorders. INc is ranked among the best in total number of scientific manuscripts and citations in the Neuroscience ́s field in Spain. The UAB is one of the top-ranked Universities in Spain and has the following facilities and specialized staff: Animal Housing Facilities, Cell Culture Unit, Histology Unit, Advanced Microscopy Core, Molecular Biology Laboratory Service, and Service for Development of Viral Vectors