A 3 years-long PhD position (or  2 years-long junior Postdoc position)  is available in the team “Neural bases of sensorimotor learning” at INMED/Marseille to study the role of the striatum in the exploration/exploitation dilemma.

The project is based on a naturalistic foraging task in freely moving mice combined with open-loop and/or close-loop manipulations of striatal sub-circuits during behavior (chemo/optogenetics). It is part of ANR-funded collaboration between Ingrid Bureau and David Robbe.

We’re looking for candidates driven by science, with a strong interest in animal behavior/intelligence and not scared of playing with computers running Linux OS, Python, and RaspberryPi/Arduino boards (or willing to learn python programming for data acquisition and analysis).

For postdoc applicants, having at least one of the following skills is requested: mice behavior, rodent stereotaxic injections, matlab/python analysis of behavioral/neurophysiological signals,  hardware control (e.g., familiarity with microcontrollers), signal/image acquisition/processing.

More info on our team and INMED: https://bit.ly/35OL8xm

Marseille is a fun city to live in and INMED is located at the entrance of one of the most spectacular natural sites in Europe: The Calanques National park  (great for hiking, rock climbing, and free-water diving/swimming).

Formal application (CV, cover letter, 2 references) or questions to david.robbe@inserm.fr.

Earliest starting date: 1st of October 2022. The position will remain open until filled.

Relevant articles:

Jurado-Parras et al., 2020, Current Biology

Sales-Carbonell et al., 2018, Current Biology

Rueda-Orozco & Robbe, 2015, Nature Neuroscience