Job ID: 83318

Postdoctoral fellowship in Neurobiology and animal behavior – alcohol addiction

Position: Post-doctoral Position

Deadline: 31 August 2022

Employment Start Date: 1 September 2022

Contract Length: 2 years

City: Grenoble

Country: France

Institution: Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience - Inserm - Grenoble Alpes University

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Description:

The team « Pathophysiology of Motivation » at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience – Inserm U1216 in the French Alpes, is seeking for a highly motivated young researcher for a 2-years postdoctoral contract to work on a preclinical project on alcohol addiction. The objective will be to investigate the potential implication of the direct and indirect pathway in the nucleus accumbens, as well as the respective role of D1R and D2R dopaminergic signaling, in the development of compulsive alcohol taking, by combining mainly: behavioral evaluation of alcohol-related behaviors in rats, in vivo chemogenetic and immunofluorescence.

Expected background and skills: animal behavior (expertise in instrumental behaviors and models of alcohol use disorders will be a plus); stereotaxic surgery and classical integrative neuroscience-related methods such as neuroanatomy, histology… (experience with opto- or chemo-genetic will be a plus); classical molecular and cellular biology technics (RT-/PCR, western blot, immunohistochemistry); energy and happiness are mandatory!