[Lfm] Fwd: [Jedi] BBSRC-funded 4 year PhD studentship

[Sousa-Nunes, Rita]

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From: Andrew Lin <andrew.lin at sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:andrew.lin at sheffield.ac.uk>>
Subject: [Jedi] BBSRC-funded 4 year PhD studentship
Date: 28 March 2017 at 12:50:40 BST
To: "jedi at fly-jedi.org<mailto:jedi at fly-jedi.org> JEDI" <Jedi at fly-jedi.org<mailto:Jedi at fly-jedi.org>>

Hello JEDIs,

I'd be most grateful if you could spread the word about this 4-year BBSRC-funded PhD studentship (see also flyer attached).

https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.findaphd.com%2Fsearch%2FProjectDetails.aspx%3FPJID%3D78557%26LID%3D1384&data=01%7C01%7Crita.sousa-nunes%40kcl.ac.uk%7C684ffd57193442b9946f08d475d0adf4%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=DtuzOUyMjr4qHN28uoOIhhRs9%2FkHHiaM7WtDxshkEFI%3D&reserved=0

Neural circuit mechanisms of adaptation or sensitisation to synaptic dysfunction

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” – or does stress make you weaker? This PhD project addresses this question in the context of neuronal synaptic plasticity and insecticides. In particular, the student will use the olfactory system of the fruit fly Drosophila as a model system to test whether the brain can homeostatically compensate for insecticide-induced changes in the balance of neuronal excitation and inhibition (‘adaptation’), and/or whether such plasticity could also be maladaptive and harm the brain in other ways (‘sensitisation’). In this project, the student will use a range of cutting-edge techniques, including multiphoton imaging, electrophysiology, computational modelling, and olfactory memory assays. We anticipate this work will improve our understanding of both insecticide sensitivity/resistance in particular and, more generally, resilience and fragility to perturbations in all nervous systems, including our own.

The studentship is part of the White Rose Mechanistic Biology Doctoral Training Programme: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whiterose-mechanisticbiology-dtp.ac.uk&data=01%7C01%7Crita.sousa-nunes%40kcl.ac.uk%7C684ffd57193442b9946f08d475d0adf4%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=hz%2FAWcv%2FCAtwJpZ4tq9YW6m635YgR2tcj0v%2FJi3IOkA%3D&reserved=0

Many thanks,
Andrew


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Andrew Lin, Ph.D.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow
Department of Biomedical Science
University of Sheffield
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Western Bank
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