Resolving a Novel Brain Circuit Controlling Appetitive Behaviour and Fuel Metabolism

Applications are invited from UK or EU residents to join a new MRC-funded team of scientists focusing on understanding the basic mechanisms underlying the brain’s integration and processing of ingestive signals.

The overall aim of the studentship project is to define cross brain-circuits communication during ingestive behaviour with particular emphasis on the caudal brainstem. The project will involve the use of genetic engineering techniques, calcium photometry and chemogenetic and optogenetic manipulations of intact neuronal circuits.

For further details about the project, contact Dr Giuseppe D’Agostino ([Email Address Removed]).