PhD Scholarship, School of Biological Sciences in United Kingdom

Offer description

Autistic individuals have impaired communication and social behaviour. Genes operating across a wide range of different biological functions have been identified as being associated with an increased risk of autism. However, it is currently unclear how variation in a number of these genes brings about changes in signalling to disrupt the output of neural circuits. They have developed a pipeline using the model organism C. elegans to identify genes that function to co-ordinate social behaviour. Of these, a subset function within epigenetic and lipid signalling pathways and represent interesting targets for the development of therapeutic approaches.

*Due to funding restrictions this position is only open to UK/EU applicants

Organisation

University of Southampton

Location

United Kingdom › Southampton

Research field

Deadline

31st March 2022

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