PhD Student in Neurodevelopmental Biology

at  Universit de Lausanne

INTRODUCTION

UNIL is a leading international teaching and research institution, with over 5,000 employees and 17,000 students split between its Dorigny campus, CHUV and Epalinges. As an employer, UNIL encourages excellence, individual recognition and responsibility.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

In order to complete our team, we are looking for someone with the following skills:

• Experience in histological approaches,
• Experience in mouse manipulation,
• Authorization for animal experimentation is advised,
• Motivated, dynamic, and enthusiastic student with a master thesis in life science, interested in working in a highly interactive environment,
• Excellent command of oral and written English.

The successful candidate will work on the lab project to determine the developmental features of hypothalamic POMC neuronal sub-populations in mice. This work will rely on multidisciplinary approaches including anterograde and retrograde tracing combined with birth dating, histological approaches (immunohistochemistry and RNAscope in situ hybridization) and microscopy/image analysis.