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Posted on behalf of Dr Robyn Grant:</div>
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Applications are sought for a 3 year, fully-funded PhD position (UK & EU nationals) in the lab of Dr Robyn Grant at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.</div>
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Title: "Indicators of Neurodegenerative Disease revealed through Animal Behaviour: open source toolbox development for measurement of disease progression."</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Summary: A multi-disciplinary project developing image analysis tools for objective, non-invasive assessment of animal behaviour. </span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">In particular, the project will focus on developing methods to quantify changes in patterns of locomotion and whisker movements resulting
from neurodegenerative disorders such as Motor Neuron Disease, Huntingdon's Disease and ageing. </span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Candidates must have good programming skills (e.g. Matlab) and a strong motivation for research. Expertise of developing image analysis algorithms
would be desirable, with an interest in animal behavior.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">The
student will also receive training on image processing techniques and software development, alongside collecting animal behavior data.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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For more details and to apply:</div>
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<a href="http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=53553&LID=1837" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://www.findaphd.com/<wbr>search/ProjectDetails.aspx?<wbr>PJID=53553&LID=1837</a><br>
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For all inquiries, contact Dr Robyn Grant: <a href="mailto:Robyn.Grant@mmu.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Robyn.Grant@mmu.ac.uk</a></div>
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MRC Senior non-Clinical Fellow<br>
Faculty of Life Sciences<br>
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University of Manchester<br>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.systemsneurophysiologylab.ls.manchester.ac.uk/">http://www.systemsneurophysiologylab.ls.manchester.ac.uk/</a></div>
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