Two post-doc positions will be available starting from Summer 2009
in Nicolas Brunel’s team at Universite Paris Descartes.


Both positions will be funded by grants from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) on projects related to modelling of the cerebellar cortex.
The first position concerns dynamics and learning of temporal patterns of activity in the cerebellum. Research will be carried out in collaboration with the experimental team of Boris Barbour in the Biology Department of Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), and the theoretical teams of Vincent Hakim and Jean-Pierre Nadal in the Physics Department of ENS. This position will be funded from Summer 2009 until December 2011.
The second position concerns modeling of the vestibular cerebellum, in collaboration with the experimental team of Stephane Dieudonne in the Biology Department of Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS). This position will be funded from Summer 2009 to December 2010.
For both positions, applicants should have a strong background in theoretical neuroscience, physics, or applied mathematics. Good knowledge of neuroscience is preferred, but not required. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and have two or three letters of recommendation sent by email to Nicolas Brunel (nicolas.brunel(at)univ-paris5(dot)fr) before March 31.
More information about research in Nicolas Brunel’s team can be
found at http://www.neurophys.biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr/~brunel
See also:
Dugue P, Brunel N, Hakim V, Schwartz E, Chat M, Levesque M,
Courtemanche R, Lena C, Dieudonne S. Electrical coupling mediates
tunable low-frequency oscillations and resonance in the cerebellar
Golgi cell network. Neuron. 2009, in press
de Solages C, Szapiro G, Brunel N, Hakim V, Isope P, Buisseret P,
Rousseau C, Barbour B, Léna C. High-frequency organization and
synchrony of activity in the purkinje cell layer of the
cerebellum. Neuron. 2008 Jun 12;58(5):775-88.
Barbour B, Brunel N, Hakim V, Nadal JP. What can we learn from
synaptic weight distributions? Trends Neurosci. 2007 Dec;30(12):622-9.
Brunel N, Hakim V, Isope P, Nadal JP, Barbour B. Optimal information
storage and the distribution of synaptic weights: perceptron versus
Purkinje cell. Neuron. 2004 Sep 2;43(5):745-57.

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