Position: Two postdoctoral positions in computational and experimental neuroscience
Organization: The biomedical research center of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, VA

ORGANIZATION: Janelia Farm Research Center
LOCATION: Ashburn, USA
DEADLINE: Not Specified

DESCRIPTION

JANELIA FARM
(http://www.hhmi.org/janelia/):
Janelia Farm Research Center is the "flagship" of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for brain research. In a research culture best described as a scientific think tank, outstanding scientists from diverse disciplines are collaborating on the most challenging neuroscientific roblems, supported by the generous HHMI funding. The environment at Janelia Farm is specifically designed for passionate, creative, motivated and highly collaborative people, who are equally committed to exploring cutting edge theories as well as obtaining solid results.

I will be starting a lab at the Janelia Farm in January 2010 and I am looking for two creative, independent, communicative, highly collaborative and motivated people.
I am currently a post-doc in the lab of Prog. Gyorgy Buzsaki at the Rutgers University, NJ. My web-page: http://osiris.rutgers.edu/~eva/

RESEARCH:
I am interested in studying the neuronal mechanisms that internally generate brain activity while an animal is solving a cognitive task (as opposed to the external sensory stimuli induced activity). I have shown in my previous work that the memory task specific internally generated activity can be studied when the external stimuli remain constant
(Pastalkova et al., Science 2008; http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5894/1322).

One line of the experimental work in the lab will expand and extend the same approach while exploring the interactions between the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex. The second line of work will explore the internally organized activity and interactions between the amygdala and the ventral and dorsal hippocampus.

POSITIONS:

I. Analysis of complex neuronal data recorded in behaving rats.

A candidate must be interested in complex exploratory analysis of neuronal data (unit activity and local field potentials recorded simultaneously from several brain regions combined with behavioral and physiological
measures) obtained in freely moving rats performing cognitive tasks.

required skill set:
-    solid experience with the time-series data analysis
-    solid math and statistics background
very welcome skill set: experimental experience
background: math, physics, computer sciences, engineering

II. Recording of neuronal, behavioral and physiological data in freely moving rats combined with data analysis.

required skill set: basic data analysis
very welcome skill set: electrophysiological recordings in freely moving animals
background: biology, medicine

DURATION:
2 years; starting in January 2010 (or anytime afterwards). The position can be extended for up to 5 years (until 2015).

FUNDING:
all work is funded internally by HHMI

ENVIRONMENT:
Janelia Farm is highly collaborative, interdisciplinary and creative environment, which assumes high standards of collegiality, openness and fair-play. Janelia offers excellent technical support and extensive computational resources.  Our group will be collaborating with multiple groups inside of Janelia:
http://www.hhmi.org/janelia/labs.html.

LOCATION:
Ashburn, Virginia
19700 Helix Drive
about 1hr from Washington, DC (free morning and evening shuttle-bus to Airlington is available)

SALARY:
highly competitive and independent of the NIH standards, based on the experience of the candidate

If you are interested, please, email me
- a letter describing your research interests, research plans, skills and experience
- your C.V.
- names of three referees

Please, do not hesitate to email me if you have any questions.

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