Neuroscience (International Graduate School) (IGSN)

["Candidates will prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of neuroscience (project duration: four years). Research topics are olfaction, vision and acting, robotics, learning and memory, cortical and synaptic plasticity, neuron-glia interaction, signal transduction, cerebral asymmetries, clinical neuropsychology, neurodegenerative diseases, computational neuroscience and developmental neuroscience. For details on current research projects, see:http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/igsn.The study programme includes a semester-wide neuroscience lecture "From Molecules to Cognition", oral and written thesis proposals, progress reports and a final report, semester-wide lecture series with external speakers, annual workshops and special symposia, a course in grant writing and technical training."]