PhD in Biophysics

Are you passionate about understanding how neural circuits generate behavior?/nThe Stagkourakis Lab at Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab in Stockholm is recruiting for two PhD students with expertise in biomedical engineering or imaging to uncover the neural and neurohormonal mechanisms underlying instinctual and homeostatic behaviors, including aggression, fear, feeding, and thirst./nBased at the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet and part of SciLifeLab. Location: Biomedicum D8, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 9, Solna; SciLifeLab Gamma 5, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna./nTechniques and approaches mentioned: in vivo large-scale electrophysiology (Neuropixels), AAV-based circuit targeting, behavior, two-photon microscopy, miniaturized fluorescence imaging (Inscopix miniscope), miniscope, fiber photometry.