Neuroscience

Taking a Neuroscience PhD at the University of Brighton will bring you into a truly interdisciplinary environment, involving all of the sciences, mathematics and engineering, and is conducted at molecular, cellular and system levels.

Research within the Neuroscience PhD programme, for example, includes the basic biology of the CNS and sensory neuroscience, neurological, neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory disorders, learning and memory, neuropharmacology, neuroscience of aging, including membrane protein function during the ageing process.

Key facts

As a Neuroscience PhD student from University of Brighton you will be able to draw on a range of research approaches including service user experiences, policy, workforce and educational perspectives. Projects can have a strong clinical or practice focus, or be more theoretical or speculative. You will benefit from:

• a supervisory team comprising two or sometimes three members of academic staff. Depending on your research specialism you may also have an additional supervisor from another School, another research institution, or an external partner from government or industry

• desk space and access to a desktop PC

• access to a range of electronic resources via the University’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries

• extensive instrumentation facilities which includes an Image Analysis Unit equipped with electron, confocal and atomic force microscopes, hearing lab, electrophysiological experimental setups for recording from single cells and in vivo, and suites for behavioural studies.

Research themes include:

• Basic biology of the CNS

• Learning and memory

• Neural regeneration

• Neuropharmacology

• Sensory neuroscience

• Neuroscience of aging

• Neuroinflammation

• Membrane proteins

• Voltage gated ion channels

• Technology for monitoring of neurotransmitters

• Enteric nervous system

• Neurological disorders