NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY: Research Summer School: Brain and Behaviour - Wednesday 4 July to Thursday 2 September 2012

An exciting new summer school opportunity within the Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University.

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 4 July – 2 Sept 2012 (8 weeks)

If you are over 18, have or are in university education and are looking to move into research the Institute of Neuroscience may be able to offer you an place at the Research Summer School 2012.

This summer school includes an eight-week research project with a member of the Institute (see list below) as well as a one-week training component in the Neurosciences. Scholarships for select undergraduate and postgraduate students are available. Our areas of research span from the basic biology of neurons to the abnormal activity associated with epilepsy, from music perception to mood disorders, from visual object recognition to retinal prostheses for the blind, from animal decision-making to animal welfare, from mitochondrial genetics to neurological disease. This breadth of interests stimulates innovative approaches to our science and provides a wealth of opportunities for exciting new research projects.

We invite applications from national and international undergraduate students,master and doctoral students, and post-docs conducting research in the interdisciplinary fields of:

• Animal Cognition and Behaviour (including Animal Welfare)
• Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences
• Developmental Neuroscience, Ageing and Neurodegeneration
• Neural Circuits and Neuroimaging
• Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Motor Control
• Neuropharmacology and Neurotechnology
• Psychiatric Neurosciences
• Visual, Auditory and Sensory Neuroscience

The following hosts are able to offer Research Summer School places in their laboratories:

• Dr Andrew Jackson, Wellcome Trust RCD Fellow (Movement Laboratory)
• Dr Candy Rowe, Reader in Animal Behaviour and Cognition (Predator behaviour and the evolution of prey defences)
• Dr Chris Petkov, Senior Lecturer (Comparative Neuropsychology)
• Dr Gilbert Roberts, Senior Lecturer (Centre for Behaviour and Evolution)
• Dr Jenny Read, Royal Society University Research Fellow (Binocular Vision Research)
• Dr Marcus Kaiser, Reader in Neuroinformatics (Connectomics and Neuroimaging Laboratory)
• Dr Mark Cunningham, Senior Lecturer in Neuronal Dynamics (Neuronal oscillations laboratory)
• Dr Patrick Degenaar, Senior Lecturer (Neuroprosthesis)
• Dr Rob Forsyth, Senior Lecturer in Child Neurology (Paediatric neurology)
• Dr Tom Smulders, Senior Lecturer (Neuroecology of Learning and Memory)
• Professor Tim Griffiths, Professor of Cognitive Neurology (Auditory Group Clinical Laboratory)
• Dr Melissa Bateson, Reader in Ethology (Animal Behaviour/cognition and welfare)

Application deadline: Monday 16 January 2012.

Self funded students and PostDocs are welcome to apply at a later time. Students and PostDocs seeking funds for the summer school project are encouraged to apply early, ideally on or before the deadline.

If you are interested in applying for a place at the Research Summer School please send a short (no more than 500 words) personal statement and current CV to Lee Allen by email at lee.allen@ncl.ac.uk. In your personal statement you should outline your scientific background, the area(s) of research that you are interested in pursuing and why and the name(s) of the host laboratories you are interested in working in.

Once we have received your personal statement and CV, we will forward this information onto our academics. Places are not guaranteed and would be dependent on the availability and interests of our academics.

If you have any queries, please contact Lee Allen on 0191 222 8320 or lee.allen@ncl.ac.uk.

www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/involved/ResearchSummerSchool_000.htm

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