Neuroscience PhD contracts in Marseille, France - Call for applicants

NeuroSchool PhD contracts in neuroscience are available at Aix Marseille University, France, for students with a master's degree from a non-French university.

Apply through our website until April 14, 2024.

Only a portion of the proposed projects will be funded, see details on the website.

Projects :

1. ASSAIANTE Christine (CRPN), RANJEVA Jean-Philippe (CRMBM): Understanding the role of sensorimotor representation in dyslexia: neural basis and impact of comorbidity  

2. BECLIN Christophe (IBDM): Role of micro-RNAs in the fate determination of neural progenitors during cortex development in the mouse brain

3. BERNARD-MARISSAL Nathalie (MMG), MARISSAL Thomas (INMED): Oligodendrocytes: a key metabolic support for energy-voracious parvalbumin neurons?

4. BROCHIER Thomas & MEIRHAEGHE Nicolas (INT): Neural decoding of motor cortex dynamics during learning of skilled arm movements

5. GESTREAU Christian & MENUET Clément (INMED): Cracking the neuronal code that generates the breathing rhythm

6. JIRSA Viktor & DEPANNEMAECKER Damien (INS): Multiscale Models to Link Cellular Mechanisms of Dopamine Neuromodulation to whole-brain Dynamics

7. MANENT Jean-Bernard (INMED): Multimodal profiling of epilepsy onset and progression in preclinical models of cortical malformations

8. MASSON Guillaume & CAZETTES Fanny (INT): Identifying the distributed neural circuit for strategy selection

9. MOYON Sarah (INP): Role of oligodendroglial cells in Alzheimer’s Disease pathology

10. NIVET Emmanuel (INP): Human iPSC-based modeling platforms to study the consequences of astrocytic reactivity in Alzheimer's disease: from molecular investigations to candidate validation

11. OUAGAZZAL Abdel-Mouttalib (CRPN): Cortico-pallidal circuits and motor functions: optogenetic, fiber photometry and behavioral studies in normal and Parkinsonian mice

12. PAPANDREOU Marie-Jeanne (INP): Axonal zoning: interplay between presynapses and the periodic actin-spectrin scaffold

13. WANAVERBECQ Nicolas & TROUSLARD Jérôme (INT): Are spinal Cerebrospinal Fluid contacting neurons novel interoceptors involved in the modulation of supraspinal autonomic centers?

Funding category: Contrat doctoral
3 years
PHD title: Doctorat de neurosciences
PHD Country: France