Research Assistant in Neuroscience

5 days ago


Brighton, United Kingdom University of Sussex Full time

The Schroeder Lab at the University of Sussex, UK, offers a part-time position (50%) for a Research Assistant funded by the BBSRC for the duration of 1 year.

The lab’s goal is to determine how the brain integrates visual information with information about behaviour and internal states like arousal. Ultimately, we want to understand the purpose of integrating visual with behavioural and internal state information and how it benefits visual processing and the animal’s behavioural demands. In our studies, we use mice as animal model and focus on visual processing in the superior colliculus, the retina and visual cortex. We use two-photon imaging and electrophysiology with silicon probes (Neuropixels probes) to record activity of hundreds of single neurons in awake mice. At the same time, we measure the behaviour of the mice and relate it to the neural activity.

In your role, you will primarily support team members in the lab to conduct their research activity, but you will also be able to develop your own skills and experience. The support role includes:

- the management and care for our mouse colonies (breeding, health checks, data management)
- keeping stock of lab consumables and managing purchase orders depending on the needs of lab members
- training mice in behavioural tasks
- assisting in the performance of experiments with mice including the recording of neural activity using two-photon imaging and electrophysiology
- assisting and performing lab work like histology, imaging brain tissue, preparing solutions

Depending on your interests and skills and on available time, you may learn and take on further tasks such as performing brain surgery on mice, processing and analysing experimental data, developing and building experimental equipment, and performing small research projects.

The integration of the lab within Sussex Neuroscience gives you the opportunity to collaborate and benefit from the excellent expertise of other labs in fields like the visual and other sensory systems, mouse behaviour, techniques of two-photon imaging and electrophysiology, and computational neuroscience.

The Schroeder lab is located just outside the vibrant city of Brighton at the coast of South East England, one hour away from London. The campus of Sussex combines award-winning architecture with green open spaces and is surrounded by the South Downs National Park.
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