Topic: Chemosensation

Investigate smell, taste, reward processing and food motivation in Janina Seubert’s nutritional neuroscience research. Projects use human behavioural experiments and functional MRI, including questions relevant to eating disorders. The position is full time and temporary, based in Solna. Applications close on 28 September 2026 through Karolinska’s recruitment portal. Applicants must have completed their doctorate by the employment decision.

In this presentation, we will discuss the cellular and molecular properties of the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN), an integrative and interoceptive control node for the respiratory motor system. We will present the molecular profiling that has allowed definitive identification of a cluster of tonically active neurons that provide a requisite drive to the respiratory central pattern generator (CPG) and other pre-motor neurons. We will discuss the ionic basis for steady pacemaker-like firing, including by a large subthreshold oscillation; and for neuromodulatory influences on RTN activity, includi