Vacancies ⁽¹⁶⁾

Internship: Fundamental properties of voltage-gated sodium channels

Group

Kole Group

Type

Student Project

Description

You will investigate the fundamental properties of voltage-gated sodium channels and perform electrophysiology and live-cell imaging of genetically modified HEK293 cells.

FTE

Fulltime

Period

6 months

Internship: Neural codes and computations 1: sensory-motor feedback loops and multi-area stimulus processing in the visual system of the mouse

Group

Heimel Group

Type

Student Project

Description

Internship aim: Acquire and analyse large-scale data sets in cortical and subcortical visual areas with a new-gen high-density laminar probe: Neuropixels.

FTE

1.0 FTE

Internship: Neural codes and computations 2: modelling the mouse visual system

Group

Heimel Group

Type

Student Project

Description

Internship aim: develop a large-scale biologically plausible model of the mouse visual system.

FTE

Period

6 months

Internship: functional recordings from myelinated circuits

Group

Kole Group

Type

Student Project

Description

You will investigate cellular circuits in the cortex (or hippocampus) and perform functional characterizations of single neurons in combination with other techniques, such as immunofluorescence.

FTE

Fulltime

Internship: Investigating visual instinctive behavior in the mouse

Group

Heimel Group

Type

Student Project

Description

This project is focused on the mechanisms behind specific instinctive visual behaviors in the mouse.

FTE

Fulltime

Period

6 months

Internship: Developing tools for analyzing large scale neuronal activity data sets

Group

Levelt Group

Type

Student Project

Description

We are looking for a student with very good Matlab programming skills, and good knowledge of data analysis and statistics approaches to help with the analyses of very large in vivo calcium imaging datasets.

FTE

full time

Period

> 6 months

Internship: Analysis of two-photon microscopy data on synapse loss and formation during cortical plasticity

Group

Levelt Group

Type

Student Project

Description

We are looking for a student interested in analyzing the data of a two-photon microscopy study.

FTE

full time

Period

>6 months

Internship: Vision in awake behaving mice

Group

Heimel Group

Type

Student Project

Description

Master student internship: Developing and testing new visual behavior paradigms for mice.

Period

Several months

Internship: Neuroregeneration

Group

Verhaagen Group

Type

Student Project

Description

Molecular biological techniques (microarrays, viral vector construction, PCR, various types of biochemical techniques), cell and tissue culture, immunohistochemistry, behavioural assays to assess functional recovery

FTE

Full time

Period

to be determined

Internship: Analyzing Zebrafish Retinal Function – Bachelor student project

Group

Kamermans Group

Type

Student Project

FTE

Fulltime

Internship: Horizontal Cell Information Processing

Group

Kamermans Group

Type

Student Project

FTE

1.0 FTE

Internship: Outer Retinal Influence on Ganglion Cell Surround Responses

Group

Kamermans Group

Type

Student Project

FTE

1.0 FTE

Internship: Neurobiological mechanisms of reinforcement learning, habits, compulsivity, and deep-brain stimulation

Group

Willuhn Group

Type

Student Project

Description

The student will assist the research team in conducting behavioral experiments with rodents, sectioning and staining brains slices, manufacturing electrodes/optic fibers, conducting brain measurements and brain manipulations in behaving rodents.

Period

6 month minimum (the longer the better)

Internship: Visual processing in awake behaving mice

Group

Roelfsema Group

Type

Student Project

Description

Animal handling and training, programming, extracellular recordings and/or two-photon imaging, data analysis, possibly extended with histological techniques and microscopy.

FTE

Fulltime

Period

To be determined - at least for 5 months

Internship: Human visual processing

Group

Roelfsema Group

Type

Student Project

Description

We investigate neural mechanisms underlying visual information processing in humans. Research techniques include mainly psychophysics, eye-tracking and fMRI.

FTE

Fulltime

Period

To be determined - at least for 5 months

Internship: Testing vision of mutated zebrafish

Group

Kamermans Group

Type

Student Project

Description

Behavioral testing of zebrafish; electro retinogram measurements; immunocytochemistry; single cell electrophysiology

FTE

1 FTE

Period

17 weeks

Vacancies (16)

Internship: Fundamental properties of voltage-gated sodium channels

Internship: Neural codes and computations 1: sensory-motor feedback loops and multi-area stimulus processing in the visual system of the mouse

Internship: Neural codes and computations 2: modelling the mouse visual system

Internship: functional recordings from myelinated circuits

Internship: Investigating visual instinctive behavior in the mouse

Internship: Developing tools for analyzing large scale neuronal activity data sets

Internship: Analysis of two-photon microscopy data on synapse loss and formation during cortical plasticity

Internship: Vision in awake behaving mice

Internship: Neuroregeneration

Internship: Analyzing Zebrafish Retinal Function – Bachelor student project

Internship: Horizontal Cell Information Processing

Internship: Outer Retinal Influence on Ganglion Cell Surround Responses

Internship: Neurobiological mechanisms of reinforcement learning, habits, compulsivity, and deep-brain stimulation

Internship: Visual processing in awake behaving mice

Internship: Human visual processing

Internship: Testing vision of mutated zebrafish

Vacancies ⁽¹⁶⁾