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

Postdocs in computational neuroscience, decision-making: U Penn/U Houston/CU Boulder
by Zachary Kilpatrick 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

We are seeking up to two postdoctoral fellows to join an ongoing, collaborative project on adaptive decision-making jointly directed by Joshua Gold and Long Ding at the University of Pennsylvania, Krešimir Josić at the University of Houston, and Zachary Kilpatrick at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The positions are fully funded for 2–3 years each by our joint Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) grant, “Adaptive Decision Rules in Dynamic Environments”. Both positions will be fully integrated into our cross-disciplinary team, which involves bi-weekly virtual meetings, annual in-person meetings, and other collaborative opportunities to ensure close, bi-directional interactions between theory/modeling and experiments. One position will be housed at the University of Pennsylvania and will focus on experimental approaches, including psychophysics and pupillometry in humans; psychophysics, pupillometry, and neurophysiology in non-human primates; and theory-driven, quantitative data analyses. The other position will be housed at the University of Houston and will focus on theoretical and modeling approaches, including stochastic and probabilistic models and their circuit-level implementations, assessed and updated via our experimental data using statistical model identification and comparison. The University of Pennsylvania, University of Houston, and University of Colorado at Boulder are all Equal Opportunity Employers with strong support for postdocs, via Penn’s Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs office, the University of Houston Postdoctoral Fellows Association (UHPFA), and UC Boulder’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. We value diversity in all forms and strive to promote a healthy, inclusive working environment. Applicants should send a CV and cover letter to Joshua Gold (jigold(a)pennmedicine.upenn.edu <mailto:jigold@pennmedicine.upenn.edu>) or Krešimir Josić (kresimir.josic(a)gmail.com <mailto:kresimir.josic@gmail.com>). Informal inquiries are also welcome.

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FW: Paid Research Internships in AI and Brain Research (CaCTuS)
by Susan Fischer 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

-- Apologies for cross-posting -- Our international internship program, CaCTüS, offers paid research internships at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the AI Center in Tübingen & Stuttgart (Germany) to students who face significant constraints in their pursuit of a career in AI or brain research. We would be very grateful if you could help us reach students who may benefit from our program. You can do that by distributing the call for applications in your professional networks, among your colleagues and any interested students, or by sharing our posts on social media. You may find details on the program and links to our social media posts below. We thank you in advance for any support you are willing to give us. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Kind regards, Susan Fischer - on behalf of the CaCTüS Internship coordination team - About the CaCTüS Internship program cactus-internship.tuebingen.mpg.de The sciences of biological and artificial intelligence are rapidly growing research fields that need enthusiastic minds with a keen interest in solving challenging questions. The Max Planck Institutes for Biological Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems as well as the AI Center in Tübingen & Stuttgart (Germany) offer up to 10 students at the Bachelor or Master level paid three-months internships during the summer of 2023. Successful applicants will work with top-level scientists on research projects spanning machine learning, electrical engineering, theoretical neuroscience, behavioral experiments and data analysis. The CaCTüS Internship is aimed at young scientists who are held back by personal, financial, regional or societal constraints to help them develop their research careers and gain access to first-class education. The program is designed to foster inclusion, diversity, equity and access to excellent scientific facilities. We specifically encourage applications from students living in low- and middle-income countries which are currently underrepresented in the Max Planck Society research community. Application deadline: 4 December 2022 Social Media Links Twitter: https://twitter.com/MPICybernetics/status/1581941564699336704 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MPICybernetics/photos/a.1701083666787308/343340166… Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjz1mpssJjm/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6987707261393502208 ************************************************ CaCTüS Internship Coordination Office Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Max-Plank-Ring 8 72076 Tübingen Germany cactus-internship(a)tuebingen.mpg.de http://cactus-internship.tuebingen.mpg.de/ ************************************************

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5 year Neuroscience MSc/PhD Programme in Tuebingen
by Peter Dayan 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

5-Year combined MSc/PhD program of the International Max Planck Research School: The Mechanisms of Mental Function and Dysfunction The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and the University of Tübingen invite students from all over the world to apply for their interdisciplinary 5-year combined MSc/PhD program leading to a PhD in Neuroscience. MSc Scholarships will be available for top-ranked applicants. We are seeking talented, curious and open-minded young scientists with strong backgrounds in neuroscience, biomedical sciences, computational science, applied mathematics, statistics, artificial intelligence, or engineering. Successful candidates will possess a burning aspiration to shape the future of neuroscience and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary, environment. The application deadline is 30th November 2022. Please visit: https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/imprs-mmfd for more details and information about applying. The MSc/PhD program is a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and the University of Tübingen. It is closely affiliated with the renowned Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, the centerpiece of neuroscience training in Tübingen. Students (who should have been awarded a Bachelor's degree by September 2023) will receive a broad interdisciplinary training in neuroscience, including expert teaching by international renowned scientists and individual and intensive mentoring. Potential research topics cover a variety of fields in systems neuroscience, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, computational neuroscience, translational and clinical neuroscience as well as cellular and molecular neuroscience. Teaching and research are conducted in English.

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Postdoc (3 years) in computational neuroscience/machine learning at the University of Nottingham (UK)
by Mark Humphries 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

The Humphries’ lab at the University of Nottingham is seeking a postdoc to join a project developing a precision medicine platform for neuromodulation, in collaboration with MachineMedicine Technologies and St George’s Hospital, London. A crucial unmet need in the management of Parkinson’s disease is how to reliably identify patients that would benefit from deep brain stimulation, the most effective treatment for Parkinson’s. The project team will create a machine-learning platform that synthesises wide-ranging personal and clinical data, combined with neural modelling, to predict the suitability of each Parkinson’s disease patient for deep brain stimulation. An exciting opportunity for the pipeline will be integrating computational models of the neural circuits disrupted in Parkinson’s. The Humphries’ lab researches fundamental insights into how the joint activity of neurons encodes actions in the world and is disrupted in movement disorders (https://www.humphries-lab.org) The post is for 3 years, full-time. Nottingham University welcomes researchers from around the globe. As part of this support, the university will provide financial support to the post-holder for all visa costs. For queries please contact Professor Mark Humphries, mark.humphries(a)nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:.humphries@nottingham.ac.uk>. For full details of the role and how to applyhttps://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SCI437522 Closing data: October 26th 2022 This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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Postdoc positions: real-time neuroscience & neural dynamics
by Memming Park 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

Dear colleagues, Two open postdoc positions are available in the Neural Dynamics Lab led by Memming Park at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal. We are looking for motivated scientists and engineers with experience and passion in two broad areas related to analysis of neural recordings: (1) statistical neuroscience, signal processing & control, and/or real-time systems, (2) machine learning (VAE, active learning, meta learning), theoretical neuroscience, and/or dynamical systems. The project is centered around inferring the effective dynamics and latent neural computation at the population level from a closed-loop neural recording system. Details & application: http://catniplab.github.io/postdoc-hiring/ https://fchampalimaud.org/offers/two-postdoctoral-positions-mp-2pd-oct2022 For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best wishes, Il Memming Park -- Group Leader, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Portugal Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, USA

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Closing Soon! Postdoc (3 years) in computational neuroscience/machine learning at the University of Nottingham (UK)
by Mark Humphries 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

The Humphries’ lab at the University of Nottingham is seeking a postdoc to join a project developing a precision medicine platform for neuromodulation, in collaboration with MachineMedicine Technologies and St George’s Hospital, London. A crucial unmet need in the management of Parkinson’s disease is how to reliably identify patients that would benefit from deep brain stimulation, the most effective treatment for Parkinson’s. The project team will create a machine-learning platform that synthesises wide-ranging personal and clinical data, combined with neural modelling, to predict the suitability of each Parkinson’s disease patient for deep brain stimulation. An exciting opportunity for the pipeline will be integrating computational models of the neural circuits disrupted in Parkinson’s. The Humphries’ lab researches fundamental insights into how the joint activity of neurons encodes actions in the world and is disrupted in movement disorders (https://www.humphries-lab.org) The post is for 3 years, full-time. Nottingham University welcomes researchers from around the globe. As part of this support, the university will provide financial support to the post-holder for all visa costs. Unsure if you're a good fit for the post? Got any questions? Then contact Mark for a chat: mark.humphries(a)nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:.humphries@nottingham.ac.uk>. For full details of the role and how to apply: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SCI437522 Closing date: October 26th 2022 Professor Mark Humphries | Professor of Computational Neuroscience My book "The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds" is out now in hardback, ebook, and audiobook! https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691195889/the-spike Lab: humphries-lab.org<https://www.humphries-lab.org/> Twitter: @markdhumphries Public blog: https://medium.com/the-spike This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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New Book: Information Theory
by James V Stone 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

New book (well, new edition). Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction. Contains two new chapters: Rate Distortion Theory and Transfer Entropy. Reviews, table of contents, code, and Chapter 1 here: https://jamesstone.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/books/information-theory-2nd-editi… regards, Jim Stone -- James V Stone Honorary Associate Professor, Sheffield University, UK. Web: https://jamesstone.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/books Twitter: @jgvfwstone

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Test Email
by Shailesh Appukuttan 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

This is a test email for maintenance purposes. Please ignore. Cheers, Shailesh Appukuttan *OCNS Webmaster*

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Up to 6 PhD fellowships in Cognitive Neuroscience at SISSA, Trieste, Italy, to start Oct, 2020
by Alessandro Treves 12 Oct '22

12 Oct '22

SISSA is an elite postgraduate research institution located in Trieste, Italy, and focused on Maths, Physics and Neuroscience. It operates in English: many among its students and faculty are not Italian. The Cognitive Neuroscience Department hosts 6 research labs that study the neuronal bases of time and magnitude processing, visual perception, motivation and intelligence, language and reading, tactile perception and learning, and neural computation. The Department is very inter–disciplinary; our approaches include behavioural, psychophysics, and neurophysiological experiments with humans and animals, as well as computational and mathematical models. Students with diverse backgrounds (physics, math, medicine, psychology, biology) are most welcome to apply. The Department has an exceptional track record with highly competitive funds (recent funding includes 4 ERC and 3 Human Frontiers grants) and publication in top journals (Nature, Science, PNAS, Current Biology). Recent placements after PhD include Harvard, MIT, Columbia and Princeton in the US; the NTNU, Manchester and Radboud in Europe; and Sydney University, Australia. Our alumni have been awarded 4 ERC grants, the 2015 Kandel Young Neuroscientist Prize and the 2017 ICTP Prize. More information about the Department is available at our website https://phdcns.sissa.it. The selection procedure is now open; to learn how to apply, please visit https://phdcns.sissa.it/admission-procedure. Please contact the PhD Coordinator (davide.crepaldi(a)sissa.it) and/or your prospective supervisor for more information and informal enquiries. -- Alessandro Treves SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience, http://people.sissa.it/~ale/limbo.html if in, rm 241, via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy: +39-040-3787623

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PhD positions available in ML-flavoured neural modelling
by Goodman, Daniel F M 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

If you're interested in doing a PhD with me in using ML techniques to explore neuroscience questions with spiking neural networks, etc. Please get in touch. Application process: http://neural-reckoning.org/openings.html To get a quick idea of whether or not you're interested, check out this paper. Basically if you like this, you'd be at home. http://neural-reckoning.org/pub_heterogeneity.html Dan If you are interested in a future where access to and participation in research are equitable and open to all, please take a moment to read and sign our open letter to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy<https://ostp-letter.github.io/why.html>. Your support can make a real difference to the future of research.

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