School of Psychology and Neuroscience
Salary: £36,333 - £39,592 per annum (From August 2023: £37,099 - £40,521 pa)
Start Date: 3 July 2023
Fixed term: 36 months
We are seeking applications
for a Post-doctoral Research Fellow to work on a BBSRC funded project in
Professor James Ainge’s lab entitled ‘Lateral Entorhinal Cortex (LEC) and
episodic memory: examining LEC's impact on pattern separation and neurogenesis’.
The project will examine how new-born neurons contribute to memory for our
everyday lived experience. This project provides an exciting opportunity to
apply state of the art neuroscience techniques to help explain memory
mechanisms in an understudied part of the brain’s memory network.
The primary duties
will be to conduct a combination of in vivo single unit recording and
behavioural experiments to examine the neural mechanisms supporting episodic
memory. The experiments will focus on the role of neurogenesis in memory and
will make use of genetic and molecular tools to manipulate neurogenesis and LEC
in combination with high density silicon probe (neuropixels) recordings. The
candidate will work as part of a large interdisciplinary team that provides
support for the postholder and expertise in both animal and human models of
memory, animal behaviour and system neuroscience.
The successful
applicant will have (or be near to completion of) a PhD in a related discipline
with expertise in the systems neuroscience techniques involved and/or
behavioural analysis of animal cognition. They will also have experience in
publishing scientific findings.
This is a full-time
position (36.25 hrs per week), on a fixed term contract for 36 months, starting
3 July 2023.
Further details of the
project can be found by contacting jaa7@st-andrews.ac.uk; further details of
the lab can be found on the Ainge Lab website.
Applications
are particularly welcome from people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
(BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented
in professional posts at the University.
Equality,
diversity and inclusion are at the heart of the St Andrews experience. We strive to create a fair and inclusive
culture demonstrated through our commitment to diversity awards (Athena Swan, Carer
Positive, LGBT Charter, Race Charters and Stonewall). We celebrate diversity by
promoting profiles of BAME, LGBTIQ+ staff and supporting networks including the
Staff BAME Network; Staff with Disabilities Network; Staff LGBTIQ+ Network; and
the Staff Parents & Carers Network. Full
details available online: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/
Closing Date: 18
April 2023
Please quote ref:
AR2801MR
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School of Psychology and Neuroscience
Salary: £36,333 - £39,592 per annum (From August 2023: £37,099 - £40,521 pa)
Start Date: 3 July 2023
Fixed term: 36 months