Karolinska Institute is looking for a doctoral student to investigate how prenatal exposure to antidepressant medications affects the developing brain and neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring, focusing on the first trimester of pregnancy and informing treatment decisions for stress-related disorders during pregnancy.
Requirements
- Strong interest in molecular and cellular biology, pharmacology, developmental neuroscience, or bioinformatics
Responsibilities
- utilize complex in-vitro human brain model systems to study molecular and cellular mechanisms triggered by pharmacological exposures
- study molecular and cellular mechanisms triggered by pharmacological exposures, with an emphasis on neurodevelopmental outcomes such as cell fate determination, tissue architecture, and epigenetic remodeling
- involve risk-benefit assessments of commonly prescribed and novel antidepressant agents
- design and execute experiments
- analyze data
- communicate research findings through presentations and publications
Other
- doctoral (PhD) student position
- Willingness to design and execute experiments, analyze data, and communicate research findings through presentations and publications
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within an interdisciplinary research environment
