October 2022 - Comp-neuro - lists.cnsorg.org

Online Symposium on Computational Approaches to the Mind
by Nadine Spychala Oct. 4, 2022

Oct. 4, 2022

Dear all, we invite you to participate in a *one-day online-only symposium* on *21st October 2022 *- free of charge and open to all: Rethinking Computational Approaches to the Mind - Fundamental Challenges and Future Perspectives - This event will bring together researchers with expertise in various areas such as complexity science, machine learning & artificial intelligence, information theory & data science, as well as computational/theoretical neuroscience & philosophy to explore different computational approaches in the study of the “mind” (in brains and/or machines): 1. What are those approaches essentially about? 2. What are major benefits & caveats? 3. Do different approaches speak to, complement, or contradict each other? 4. What are the *current challenges* in computational approaches to understand the mind, and what could bring progress? The event is organized within the “Sensation and Perception to Awareness: Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme <https://www.sussex.ac.uk/sensation/>” at the University of Sussex, and will comprise a set of talks followed by a panel discussion. Find more info - including how to register - on our event website <https://computationalmind.github.io/>. Feel free to spread widely in your networks. We look forward to a day of exciting talks and discussions! Nadine Spychala, Tomasz Korbak, & Federico Micheli (event organizers)

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Jobs at the Allen Institute: linking neuronal function, cell types, and connectivity
by Anton Arkhipov Oct. 4, 2022

Oct. 4, 2022

Dear Colleagues, We are hiring for multiple positions in a new ambitious project supported by the NIH U01 grant from the BICAN consortium (please see the announcement<https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2022/nih-brain-initiative-launch…>). Combining optical physiology in vivo with spatial transcriptomics and electron microscopy, we aim to link cell types of the mouse cortex with their function. The project is led by Marina Garrett (Allen Institute), Jack Waters (Allen Institute), Jerry Chen (Boston University), and Anton Arkhipov (Allen Institute). Scientist – Imaging: The person in this position will lead experimental imaging work to utilize and improve the spatial transcriptomics platform used in this project. https://alleninstitute.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req=2212881 Scientist – Analysis of Connectome and Functional Activity: This scientist will focus on linking the connectome and morphologies of cortical neurons to their activity in vivo, using the Electron Microscopy (EM) volume of 1 mm3 of the mouse visual cortex obtained by the Allen Institute. https://alleninstitute.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req=2209286 Scientist - Neurophysiology Data Analysis: This scientist will focus on the analysis of the visual physiology data from 2p calcium imaging in vivo to study neural coding and circuit dynamics. https://alleninstitute.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req=2231731 Software Engineer - Tools for Neurophysiology Data Analysis: The software engineer will build software tools and infrastructure to support processing and analysis of multi-modal image-based datasets in this project. https://alleninstitute.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req=2232755 Scientist - Neural Data Analysis: This scientist will focus on linking the 2p calcium imaging and spatial transcriptomics modalities for individual cells, including tasks like co-registration and exploration of statistical relationships between the functional and transcriptomics types. https://alleninstitute.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req=1937290 Please consider applying and reach out if you have any questions. And we will appreciate it if you help us spread the word about these opportunities! Best wishes, Anton. Anton Arkhipov Associate Investigator T: 206.548.8414 E: antona(a)alleninstitute.org<mailto:antona@alleninstitute.org> [Text Description automatically generated] alleninstitute.org<https://alleninstitute.org> brain-map.org

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NIH-funded Postdoc or Software Developer position on multiscale brain modeling
by Shailesh Appukuttan Oct. 3, 2022

Oct. 3, 2022

*(posting on behalf of Dr. Salvador Dura-Bernal)* An NIH-funded Postdoc or Software Developer position is now available in the Dura-Bernal Lab <http://dura-bernal.org/> at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Health Sciences (Brooklyn, New York). The position is focused on multiscale modeling of the brain, more specifically, developing a co-simulation interface between the NetPyNE <http://www.netpyne.org/> and The Virtual Brain <http://dura-bernal.org/www.thevirtualbrain.org> (TVB) tools, which will link the molecular, cellular, circuit and whole-brain network scales. The resulting multiscale models will help interpret experimental data ranging from single cell recordings and LFP up to EEG and fMRI. For details please visit: http://dura-bernal.org/postdoc-2022 or email salvador.dura-bernal(a)downstate.edu

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