PhD student in Neuroscience - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Assessment of motor and non-motor deficits in preclinical rodent models of Parkinson's disease

Work duties

Animal behavioural assessment, immunohistochemistry, electrochemistry, programming, data management, AAV vector production, small animal surgery (lesion, transplantation), dissection and cloning.

Qualifications

Requirements

Small rodent surgery (lesion, transplantation, vector delivery), personal animal licence, electrochemistry, operant behavioural testing, cloning, AAV production. Fluent in English.

Merits

Experience with programming, electrochemistry in freely moving animals.

Eligibility

Students with basic eligibility for third-cycle studies are those who- have completed a second-cycle degree- have completed courses of at least 240 credits, of which at least 60 credits are from second-cycle courses, or- have acquired largely equivalent knowledge in some other way, in Sweden or abroad.

The employment of doctoral students is regulated in the Swedish Code of Statues 1998: 80. Only those who are or have been admitted to PhD-studies may be appointed to doctoral studentships. When an appointment to a doctoral studentship is made, the ability of the student to benefit from PhD-studies shall primarily be taken into account. In addition to devoting themselves to their studies, those appointed to doctoral studentships may be required to work with educational tasks, research and administration, in accordance with specific regulations in the ordinance.

Type of employment
Limit of tenure, four years according to HF 5 kap 7§.