Research Associate

We have an exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to join the School of Psychology & Neuroscience.

The successful candidate will make a leading contribution to an MRC-funded project "Evaluating the role of IL-17A as an orchestrator of peripheral-central cross talk in depressive symptoms", working with a team of cognitive neuroscientists, clinicians/mental health professionals, immunologists and statisticians.

This project seeks a clinically actionable understanding of the mechanisms that underlie depression in the context of immune mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID), delivered by state-of-the-art brain imaging. Approximately 30-40% of patients with IMID experience psychiatric comorbidity, such as depressive symptoms, often associated with proinflammatory cytokines, such as IL-17A. In this work we aim to recruit chronic IMID patients to carry out brain imaging before and after anti IL-17A treatment to study how the relevant neural pathways are affected. We plan to study these pathways in the context of reinforcement learning and decision making as these processes are often affected in depression.

This post will be responsible for simultaneous EEG-fMRI in 7T, to offer a high spatiotemporal characterisation of the relevant cortical/subcortical pathways and the mechanistic properties underlying these pathways.

The post holder will have the opportunity to be involved in cutting-edge bespoke neuroimaging technology [7TfMRI-EEG] and advanced data analytics to uncover and predict patterns in large multimodal datasets.

The successful candidate will also be expected to work closely with other postdoctoral fellows employed on the same project to contribute to the formulation and submission of research publications and research proposals as well as help the PIs manage the project as opportunities allow.

Please visit our website for further information on The University of Glasgow’s School of Psychology & Neuroscience, www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psychologyneuroscience

For further information, please contact Professor Marios Philiastides Marios.Philiastides@glasgow.ac.uk

This post is full time and funded for up to 24 months.

To apply online at: my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=152410

We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity.

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