Working place: CNRS / Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center (INCC)
Missions:
The successful candidate will be involved in a collaborative project on spatial orientation, dedicated to studying the head direction circuit in the mouse brain.
In particular, the presubiculum is crucial for head direction coding and the integration of vestibular and visual sensory signals. But the contribution of myelination to the brain wide circuit dynamics and to the intrinsic properties of specific populations of head direction neurons remains largely unknown. The appointee will examine the function of single neurons, circuit interactions, and population activities in the spatial orientation system, in young and in adult wild-type mice and in a transgenic mouse model where myelination is arrested. The overall aim is to advance our understanding of multisensory integration, and the role of myelination for coordinated head direction signaling.
