Research Assistant for Rodent Psychophysiology

4 dagen geleden

Amsterdam, Nederland Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Voltijd

**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 machine learning in combination with electrocardiogram, respiration and startle reflect potentiation? The powerful methods available in rodents make them the primary species to understand the neural mechanisms of emotions and empathy, but we cannot simply ask rodents what they feel. If you want to help us understand what they feel, and prepare yourself to later join a competitive PhD program, then consider joining the Social Brain Lab in an exciting collaboration with UCSD’s Sanford Center for Empathy and Compassion. If you are curious, have a passion for working with animals, like finding patterns in complex datasets and wish to work in a vibrant, international, interdisciplinary and highly collaborative environment at the forefront of social and affective neuroscience, then this position might be ideal for you.

**What you will be doing**

As a research assistant you will be a critical part of a subteam within the laboratory, composed of you, another PhD-student and three postdocs, that examine what animals feel when they witness the distress of others and what brain mechanisms trigger this feeling. The team studies the brain network recruited when rats and mice witness fear reactions of others. Your aim will be to refine our ability to read out what the witness feels while witnessing the distress of others by combining a pallet of readouts that have traditionally been used in humans, including facial expressions, pupil dilation, heart rate and its variability, respiration and startle potentiation. You will work closely with another research assistant that will examine similar readouts in humans witnessing the distress of others.

During your research assistantship you will have the opportunity to:

- Learn to use cutting edge computer-vision tools to provide fine-grained analyses of facial expressions and behavior from more experienced team members
- Learn to perform surgeries to implant electrodes to measure electro-cardio and electro-myograms.
- Gain experience in stereotactic surgeries to perform head-fixed experiments in mice
- Closely collaborate and coordinate with other members of the team in Amsterdam and our collaborators at UCSD consortium
- Coauthor your findings in open access scientific journals
- Actively participate in simultaneous measurements of neural activity using neuropixel probes
- Prepare yourself for a competitive PhD program in affective or social neuroscience

**What you will be contributing**

We are looking for an enthusiastic team-player, who:

- Has a research master in the field of neuroscience or related fields
- Preferably has an Article 9 license to work with rodents
- Enjoys working with rodents
- Enjoys advanced data analyses and statistical inferences
- Enjoys learning new techniques
- Functions well both in a team as well as independently, and possess good communication skills
- Enjoys finalizing projects and writing papers

**What we are offering**

In this 6 month project, you will have the opportunity to learn state of the art research skills from leaders in the field. You’ll enjoy working in a close-knit team of scientists that values an open culture where everybody feels free to ask questions and make suggestions. In particular, you can expect to:

- Learn a highly valued skill: to analyse behavior and psychophysiological paradigms to showcase the emotional skills of animals.
- Training in performing surgeries and empathy related paradigms in rodents
- Help you become an expert in social neuroscience in rodents
- The opportunity to work with leading researchers at the intersection between social and affective neuroscience
- You’ll be part of a community of research assistants, PhD-students and postdocs within the Social Brain Lab working on related projects using a variety of methods
- Guidance, support and mentoring from three postdocs and at least two PIs
- A fulltime employment contract for 6 months with good Terms of Employment (see below)

**Your Workplace**

The Social Brain Lab (SBL) at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

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