Junior Research Groups for Systems Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurorobotics – Medical Robotics
Junior Research Groups for Cognitive Neuroscience and Systems Neuroscience at the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) The Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) is a newly established interdisciplinary institution at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen funded by the German Excellence Initiative program. The CIN strives to deepen our understanding of how the [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - September 17, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
FIND toolbox – Finding Information in Neural Data
A Matlab-based, open-source analysis toolbox for multiple-neuron recordings and network simulations. Currently the FIND-Toolbox accommodates import of multiple proprietary data formats, based on the Neuroshare Project . Physiological data from different acquisition systems and Network simulations Environments can now be compared using identical analysis methods. This allows verifying of both results across experiments and laboratories [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - August 21, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Software Clustering Spike Sorting Statistical Analysis Source Type: blogs
PhD Studentship – Neural Networks – UCL
Applications are invited for a 3 year PhD Studentship in Computational Neuroscience in Professor Silver’s Laboratory, Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, UK. The studentship covers fees and provides a stipend for UK and EU nationals. The project will explore signal processing in cortical networks using biologically realistic models. This will [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - June 30, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
A Chip to Better Control Brain Stimulators for Parkinson ’ s
By Morgen E. Peck IEEE Spectrum Online, June 2008 Michigan engineers are developing a closed-loop deep-brain stimulation device for Parkinson’s disease that would listen to the brain while stimulating it. PHOTO: Dr. Helen Mayberg 19 June 2008—For more than a decade, doctors have been implanting devices called deep-brain stimulators into patients with Parkinson’s disease and [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - June 27, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Stories Source Type: blogs
PhD position University Osnabr ück
Institute of Cognitive Science The research group for Neurobiopsychology (Prof. Dr. Peter König) offers a vacancy (50%) for the position of a Researcher (Diploma/Master level) (Salary level according to E 13 TV-L) to be filled at earliest practicable date for a period of two years. The position involves independent research within the research project “Does [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - June 24, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral – research associate position in computational neuroscience
A postdoctoral/research associate position is available in the Lab for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine. Current projects in the lab supported by NIH include (1) computational modeling of brainstem respiratory network and neural control of breathing and (2) computational modeling of the spinal circuitry [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - June 24, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
PhD position in visual Neuroscience – Art perception
Applications are invited from outstanding graduates for a full-time, three-year PhD studentship, starting in October 2008. The project will be co-supervised by Dr Sandra Dudley & Prof Rodrigo Quian Quiroga at the University of Leicester, and David Barrie, Director of The Art Fund, the UK’s leading independent art charity. This project aims to combine approaches [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - June 18, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
PhD positions in Cognitive Science, University Osnabr ück
The research group for Neurobiopsychology (Prof. Dr. Peter König http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~NBP/) has two vacancies for positions of a PHd student. (Scholarships are for a maximum of three years, to start at November 1st, 2008. ) The positions involve research within the Research Training Group Adaptivity in Hybrid Cognitive Systems (http://www.cogsci.uos.de/PhD/GK) in the area of processing of [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - June 10, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
Software Lead for Stanford ’ s Neurogrid Project
Software Lead for Stanford’s Neurogrid Project Brains in Silicon Lab / Clark Center / Bio-X Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering seeks to hire a software engineer or computational scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Kwabena Boahen to lead the software thrust of the lab’s NIH-funded Neurogrid project. The project’s goal is to make it easy and [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - May 25, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
Programmer – SysAdmin Position at CU Boulder
The Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder is seeking applications for an experienced computer support specialist for system administration and programming related to neuroimaging (fMRI, ERP) and computational modeling work within the Institute. This person will help purchase and manage a large new computer cluster (and Mac & Linux desktop machines [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - May 14, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
NIPS ’ 2008 preliminary call for papers
Deadline for Paper Submissions: June 6, 2008, 23:59 Universal Standard Time. Submissions are solicited for the Twenty Second Annual meeting of an interdisciplinary Conference (December 8-11) that brings together researchers interested in all aspects of neural and statistical processing and computation. The Conference will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - March 31, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: External announcements Source Type: blogs
“ Bernstein Award ” Funding Initiative
Announcement of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [November 20, 2007 - deadline: June 02, 2008] The BMBF has established four “Bernstein Centres for Computational Neuroscience” (www.bernstein-zentren.de) within the framework of its “National Network for Computational Neuroscience” funding activity. These high-performing centres are the major structural elements of the National Network. This means [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - March 27, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
FIAS Summer School Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems 2008
The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) is organizing a PENS-Blackwell Summer School on: Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems Frankfurt, Germany, August 2-24, 2008 Applications are invited for this three-week summer school from graduate students and post-docs in experimental and computational neuroscience and theoretical physics. Up to 30 students will be accepted. The school is [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - February 25, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: External announcements Source Type: blogs
PhD in stereo vision – computational neuroscience in Newcastle, UK
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in Jenny Read’s lab at Newcastle University, UK, starting in September 2008. Dr Read’s research combines human psychophysics and computational modelling to address the neuronal basis of stereopsis (see for example Read & Cumming 2007 Nature Neurosci 10:1322). The successful candidate will have a good degree in a [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - February 17, 2008 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: External announcements Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral position – The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, CA – application of DTI to brain models
The Neurosciences Institute, located in San Diego, California, invites applications for a POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP in theoretical neurobiology, available immediately. The fellow will participate in the ongoing project to build a large-scale model of the mammalian brain with white-matter anatomy using human Diffusion Tensor Imaging and fiber-tracking methods (see http://nsi.edu/users/izhikevich/interest/) Applicants should have Ph.D in Mathematics, [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - December 16, 2007 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
