Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud), a private, non-profit research institution in Lisbon, Portugal, is looking for a Research Technician or Master student to join our team at the Champalimaud Research Programme.

The selected candidate will

Perform behavioural and functional imaging experiments with zebrafish larvae and fruit flies in a project that aims to elucidate how these animals escape predation.

Expected position starting date

1st June 2023

#CRSy23 #BrainBodyWorld23 aims to foster the discussion of how internal states, such as hunger, thirst, and emotion, are generated and regulated by the brain, and how they interact with the body and the external world to drive behaviour. 

Um estudo, publicado hoje, 13 de abril, na revista Nature Neuroscience dá uma surpreendente resposta a esta pergunta, ao revelar que o cérebro, em vez de se comprometer com uma única estratégia, é capaz de calcular várias estratégias alternativas de decisão em simultâneo.