Phd Cellular Neuroscience

**Your function**: **Project**: Mechanisms of neuropeptide signaling in human brain** **Job description**: You will be part of international research networks and exploit a variety of other analysis tools available here. You will be appointed in Amsterdam and work primarily in Amsterdam with regular visits to the other labs. The PhD-students will be trained...

**Jouw functie**: **Project**: Decipher how mRNAs are captured at specific subcellular locations to support local translation in neurons **Project description**: Brain function requires precise regulation of the neuronal proteome, which involves localizing thousands of mRNAs to neurites for their translation at specific subcellular locations. The mechanisms...

**Your function**: **Project**: How nanoscale molecular processes at synapses control memory formation **Project description**: Synaptic plasticity, the ability to modify synaptic strength in response to neuronal activity, plays a central role in the capacity of the brain to encode memories. It is thus important to understand the molecular events that...

**Location**:Amsterdam **Max hours per week**:38 **Salary**:€ 2.770 - € 3.539 **Duration of agreement**:4 years: first for 1 year, the employment contract will be extended in case of proper functioning **P**roject: Unlock the early-life pathological imprinting of Alzheimer's disease via lifestyle** The Neurogenesis & Neurodegeneration group (led by...

**About the project**: Research in the **Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center** aims at improving insight into leukodystrophies and developing treatment. The disease **“Megalencephalic Leukoencephalopathy with subcortical Cysts”** (MLC) has been a major research focus since long. In MLC, the homeostasis of ions and water in the brain is disrupted due to a...

**Location**:Amsterdam **Max hours per week**:38 **Max salary**:5090,00 **Duration of agreement**:1 - 3 years **Postdoc in social rodent neuroscience: understanding social and brain dynamics of multiple individuals** Both human and rodents live in complex environments that include the necessity to interact with other conspecifics. To better understand...

**Location**:Amsterdam **Max hours per week**:38 **Max salary**:5278,00 **Duration of agreement**:1 - 3 years **Postdoc in social rodent neuroscience: understanding social and brain dynamics of multiple individuals** Both human and rodents live in complex environments that include the necessity to interact with other conspecifics. To better understand how...

**Your function**: **Your duties** - map out existing literature and generate new ideas - co-design and implement new experiments - collect, analyze, and curate data - report on the findings in local meetings and inter(national) conferences - write several scientific articles and a PhD thesis - assist in (minor) teaching activities within the department -...

About the RoleAs a research assistant in our Social Brain Lab, you will play a critical part in understanding human emotions and physiological responses. You will work closely with our team to develop and refine methods for measuring empathic responses in humans, using techniques such as facial expression analysis, electrocardiogram, and startle...

**Wat ga je onderzoeken**: De titel van het project is: _In vitro _menselijke corticale microcircuits om op stamcel gebaseerde precisiegeneeskunde voor neurologische ontwikkelingsstoornissen te bevorderen. Monogenetische neurologische ontwikkelingsstoornissen ( mNDDs ) treffen ongeveer 1 op de 6 kinderen in de EU, waarvoor momenteel geen algemeen effectieve...

**PhD in Biophysics: Chaperone-guided formation of single protein complexes**: **Work Activities**: Do you want to discover how multi-protein assemblies are produced without error? The aim of this project is to reveal this vital cellular process at the single-molecule level. Our research group has been at the vanguard of studying chaperone-protein...

**Location**:Amsterdam **Max hours per week**:38 **Max salary**:€ 2.715 - € 3.266 **Duration of agreement**:6 months **Research Assistant (Netherlands Institute Neuroscience)** to determine markers of emotional states in rodents Are you interested in understanding what animals feel by leveraging advanced techniques to read facial expressions using...

Max hours per week: 38.00 Max salary: 8.025 Apply until: 30-06-2024 Are you interested in developing an innovative research group through a combination of core and extramural funding to study the biological mechanisms underlying neuropsychiatric disorders? Would you enjoy working in close collaboration with other research groups in an exceptionally...

**Your function**: Within the context of the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska Curie Doctoral Network (DN) “MeChaNiSM” there are 15 fully funded open positions for PhD students in the field of nucleic acids chemistry and biophysics. One of those position is at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. You will get the opportunity to: - be supervised by an expert in...

**Function description**: - The labs of Alan Gerber (Amsterdam UMC - Location VUmc) and Fred van Leeuwen (Netherlands Cancer Institute, NKI) are teaming up to crack the code of gene regulation of tRNA genes. In a project supported by ZonMW, we will address how the hundreds of tRNA genes in our genome are regulated in their own unique way in response to...

**Project description**: The goal of this internship project is to obtain a molecular understanding of biomarkers for psychiatric symptoms. In a close collaboration between the Kole group (led by Prof. Maarten Kole), Huitinga group (led by Prof. Inge Huitinga) and the department of Psychiatry at the Amsterdam UMC (psychiatrist Karel Scheepstra), we are...

**Your function**: **Responsibilities** - Research Leadership: Develop your own research line within Neuroproteomics. - Supervision: Supervise PhD students and post-docs. - Teaching: Participate in the Science faculty teaching program. **Your profile**: **Key Qualifications** - Expertise: You are an expert in the field of mass spectrometry-based...

**Jouw functie**: **Your duties** - gain knowledge of the field through literature research, discussion with team members, and internal research meetings - contribute to our understanding of a multi-faceted cognitive skill - plan, organize, and conduct data-collection, analyse and interpret results - collaborate hands-on with participants and other...

**Location: Amsterdam** **Max hours per week: 38 hours per week** **Max salary: between € 2.715,00 and € 3.266,00** **Duration of agreement: 6 months** **Research Assistant Position to determine markers of emotional states in humans induced by others (1.0 FTE)** **What you will be doing** As a research assistant you will be a critical part of the...

**Jouw functie**: **Your duties** - Culturing and differentiation of human renal and hepatic cell system, including induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived models - Toxicological evaluations of applied test compounds including viability assays, barrier function, mitochondrial activity, metabolism and transcriptomics, - Data analysis, including...