PhD position, Medical Science

Umeå University - with its 29,000 students and over 4,000 employees - is an organisation in constant change and development.The university's researchers carry out excellence within several areas of research, and many of them are among the world's elite.We are one of Sweden's largest providers of education and offer a broad and attractive range of courses and programmes.Our campus constitutes an inspiring environment for everyone that studies and works here.We wish to co-operate with companies and organisations throughout the Umeå region and all over the world.PhD position in the subject of Medical Science with an orientation towards Physiology at the Department of Integrative Medical Biology Description of the PhD project: "The role of ion channels and ion transporters in neuronal signalling" The project implies studies of neuronal signalling and of the fundamental roles that ion channels and ion transporters in the cellular membrane play for such signalling.These molecules also constitute central targets for a large number of therapeutical drugs and may upon dysfunction give rise to serious disease.The research group, in which the PhD student will be active, studies the function of central neurons with electrophysiological and optical methods, primarily the "patch clamp" technique and fluorescence microscopy. Qualifications A minimum of four years of university education, or three years of medical/ odontological university education or equivalent.Experience in electrophysiological techniques and/or fluorescence microscopy is of merit value, as is previous research experience in the field of neuroscience.The procedure for recruitment for the position is in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance (chapt.12, 2 §) and the decision regarding the position cannot be appealed.The applications will be discarded or, if the applicant wishes, returned two years after the position has been filled.Applications that are submitted electronically should be in Word or PDF format.