School of Psychology and Neuroscience, Salary: £33,199 per annum, Start Date: Preferable January 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter, Fixed Term: 14 months

Investigating deleterious signalling between astrocytes and motoneurons in a human iPSC-based model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

The Neural Control of Movement Lab (http://ncm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/), headed by Professor Gareth Miles at the University of St Andrews, is currently looking for a motivated Postdoctoral Researcher with a proven track record in neuroscience research to work on a project investigating the role of dysfunctional crosstalk between astrocytes and motoneurons in the devastating neurodegenerative disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). This project will utilize a combination of cutting edge electrophysiological and imaging techniques applied to human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived models. The project is part of a MND Scotland-funded collaboration with Prof Siddharthan Chandran (University of Edinburgh; http://www.siddharthanchandran.org.uk/).

For informal enquiries please contact Prof Gareth Miles (gbm4@st-andrews.ac.uk).

This post is fixed term for 14 months.

The University is committed to equality for all, demonstrated through our working on diversity awards (ECU Athena SWAN/Race Charters; Carer Positive; LGBT Charter; and Stonewall).  More details can be found at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/diversityawards/.

Closing Date: 26 November 2018               

Please quote ref: AR1813HM       

School of Psychology and Neuroscience
Salary: £33,199 per annum
Start Date: Preferable January 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter
Fixed Term: 14 months