Two postdocs open positions : experimental and theoretical neuroscience

Within the framework of a collaboration between the labs of Germán Sumbre (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) and Carina Curto (Pennsylvania state university), we are looking for two postdocs to study neuronal circuits with attractor dynamics in zebrafish larvae.

1) An experimental postdoc to conduct light-sheet Ca2+ imaging and optogenetics.  Computational or programming skills will be necessary for the analysis of high-dimensional large datasets.

2) A theoretical postdoc with mathematical skills to analyse the data using topological data analysis and modelling.

For more information on the experimental part you can contact Germán Sumbre (sumbre@ens.fr www.zebrain.biologie.ens.fr), or Carina Curto for the theoretical position (cpc16@psu.edu https://sites.psu.edu/mathneurolab/people/)

References :

1. Romano SA, Pietri T, Pérez-Schuster V, Jouary A, Haudrechy M and Sumbre G. (2015) Spontaneous neuronal network dynamics reveal circuit's functional adaptations for behavior. Neuron. 85(5):1070–1085.

2. Pietri, T., Romano, S.A., Pérez-Schuster, V., Boulanger-Weill, J., Candat, V., and Sumbre G. (2017). The Emergence of the Spatial Structure of Tectal Spontaneous Activity Is Independent of Visual Inputs. Cell Reports. 19, 939–948.

3. Romano, S., A.; Pérez-Schuster, V.; Jouary, A.; Boulanger-Weill, J.; Candeo, A.; Pietri, T.; and Sumbre, G. An integrated calcium imaging processing toolbox for the analysis of neuronal population dynamics. PLoS computational biology, 13(6): e1005526. 6 2017.

4. Curto, K. Morrison. Pattern completion in threshold-linear networks. Neural Computation, 2016.

5. C. Curto, A. Degeratu, V. Itskov. Encoding binary neural codes in networks of threshold-linear neurons. Neural Computation, Vol 25, pp. 2858-2903, 2013.

6. V. Itskov*, C. Curto*, E. Pastalkova, G. Buzsaki. Cell assembly sequences arising from spike threshold adaptation keep track of time in the hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 31(8): 2828-2834, 2011.

7. C. Giusti, E. Pastalkova, C. Curto*, V. Itskov*. Clique topology reveals intrinsic geometric structure in neural correlations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015.

8. C. Curto*, V. Itskov*. Cell groups reveal structure of stimulus space. PLoS Computational Biology, Vol. 4(10): e1000205, 2008.