Overview

About the programme

The overarching goal of the Synaptic Micronetworks in Health and Disease research group at the University of Bonn is to understand how behavior is generated by coordinated activity of neuronal circuits, and how this is disrupted in neurological disorders.

The past decade has seen significant advances in this field, with the refinement of techniques for measuring and manipulating the activity of large populations of neurons in behaving animals, as well as the ability to quantify behavior in novel, extremely precise ways.

This has allowed to formulate and test new hypotheses about how neuronal activity represents features of the outside world, how neuronal circuits integrate environmental information with internal states, and how this leads to goal-directed behavior.

Programme Structure

Research projects include:

Dentate gyrus activity patterns and their intra-hippocampal coordination in behavior and disease
Circuit mechanisms of altered excitability in experimental cortical malformations
Control of spatial coding by NMDAR co-agonists and astrocytic signaling
The many roles of dopamine – identifying subcircuits in the dopaminergic system that modulate specific aspects of motivated behavior
An inverse approach to the identification and manipulation of neuronal circuits underlying olfactory-mediated habituation/discrimination
Network alterations between hippocampus, entorhinal and prefrontal cortex contributing to spatial working memory impairment under AD-like conditions

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2024-10-07 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Neuroscience Health Sciences View 15 other PhDs in Health Sciences in Germany

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

To be eligible for entry you are expected to have successfully completed your MSc degree or equivalent.
You are also required to have completed a research project and must possess excellent English language skills.

Tuition Fee

Living costs for Bonn

865 - 1281 EUR /month

Living costs

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