We are currently looking for a Ph.D. Student interested in functionally dissecting whole-brain calcium imaging data with cellular resolution obtained from zebrafish larvae undergoing systematic perturbations of neuronal activity.

Our laboratory (westmeyerlab.org) at the School of Medicine of  Technical University of Munich (https://www.tum.de/nc/en/homepage/)  and The Institute for Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI) http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/en/ibmi/ focuses on biological engineering of molecular sensors and actuators for neurobehavioral imaging.  

We have built a molecular imaging pipeline consisting of state-of-the-art fluorescent imaging techniques including neurobehavioral methods to simultaneously image behavior and brain activity in freely behaving animals (see for example NeuBtracker.org). We complement these dataset with exoeriments conducted by Light Sheet Microscopy and Light Field microscopy to obtain imaging volumes with high temporal sampling and confocal / 2-photon microscopy. We also capture calcium signaling from adult zebrafish and rodent brains using combined acquisitions with optoacoustic tomography or MRI.

For our inter-disciplinary work, we are actively collaborating within Europe and in particular also with MIT and Caltech. 

If you are interested in computational analyses of whole-brain calcium imaging data, please visit westmeyerlab.org and submit a brief statement of your research interests and your CV to Gil Westmeyer.