Call For Expression Of Interest For Msca Postdoctoral Fellowships At Unige – N. 18 Physiology A[...] GENOVA

Call For Expression Of Interest For Msca Postdoctoral Fellowships At Unige – N. 18 Physiology A[...]
Genova
Liguria, GENOVA

Organisation / Company: University of Genoa

Department: Dept.

of Pharmacy (DIFAR)

Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Description Call for Expression of Interest for a joint application under the upcoming Call for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025.

The University of Genoa, UNIGE, located in Genoa, ITALY, welcomes postdoctoral researchers of any nationality, with an excellent track record, to apply to the European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025.

Our University has been a beneficiary of several MSCA-PF in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.

The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship is one of the funding schemes of the European Commission's Horizon Europe Research & Innovation programme, dedicated to excellent research promoting international mobility, as well as interdisciplinary and intersectoral exchanges.

The MSCA fellowship grant provides a competitive salary plus mobility and family allowances if applicable, as well as a contribution to cover research, training, and networking costs.

The research projects will have 2- or 3-year durations.

Selected candidates will be provided with special support for proposal writing and development.

The University of Genoa will organize in May the fifth edition of the Masterclass Selected candidate researchers will have the opportunity to attend a 2-day online intensive training and coaching course on how to write a successful proposal.

This masterclass is a pathway of support to candidates and their supervisors in preparing project proposals, including prescreening activity of the draft proposals and the organization of dedicated B2B meetings, by the European Research Office of UniGe, National Contact Point, and other experts.

The masterclass will take place on May/June 2025.

Research Focus Research topics include synaptic and non-synaptic (intrinsic and structural) plasticity of the olivo-cerebellar circuit underlying learning and memory, and its pathophysiological alterations in brain disorders, including Multiple Sclerosis, Ataxias, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (Autism Spectrum Disorder) with a multi-disciplinary approach including viral vectors for in vivo gene silencing and gene expression, patch-clamp electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry and confocal microscopy for morphological studies, and two-photon microscopy.

Research Group The team led by Prof. Giorgio Grasselli at the Center for Synaptic Neuroscience and Technology (NSYN) of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) at San Martino Hospital in Genoa (Italy) is investigating these topics with a multi-disciplinary approach.

The team-leader is an MSCA Alumnus and Reviewer.

The team is part of the IIT-NSYN-Center directed by Prof. Fabio Benfenati, which is a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative center, devoted to the Neurobiology of Disease and to the development of new Neurotechnologies aimed at clinical translation.

IIT is a highly prestigious, internationally recognized national research institute, with top-level facilities, seminars, and many international collaborations.

The Center is hosted by San Martino Hospital IRCCS, which is devoted to clinical and translational research, promoting collaborations between scientists and clinicians.

It is also part of the University of Genoa, a source of interdisciplinary collaborations, highly qualified undergrad students in Biotech and Pharmacy, and the site of many stimulating academic interdisciplinary events.

The lab is conveniently located close to the Town Center.

Research Topics Cerebellum, climbing fibers, Purkinje cells, neurophysiology, neuroplasticity, synaptic plasticity, intrinsic plasticity, structural plasticity, motor learning, motor memory, multiple sclerosis (MS), spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA), neurodevelopmental disorders, autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Eligibility For the MSCA-PF 2025 call (opening foreseen on 9th April 2025), at the deadline for the submission of proposals (10th September 2025), postdoctoral candidates shall have a maximum of 8 years of postdoctoral research experience and must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Italy (for European Fellowship) or in the Third Country of the outgoing phase (for Global Fellowship) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the abovementioned deadline.

More info on MSCA PF at the following link:

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