A computational neuroscience and neuroinformatics blog
Brain-computer interfaces: where are we now?
Dimitrios Adamos, co-founder & CTO of Cogitat, discusses with Alex Alexakis in Startup Pirate about: - What are brain-computer interfaces? - What is the difference between invasive and non-invasive technologies? Think Elon Musk’s Neuralink vs. Snap’s NextMind. - Are there any transformational applications of brain-computer interfaces today? - How far are we from wider adoption [...]
Imperial startup wins global competition for its brain-computer interface tech
The Imperial startup won first prize after it outperformed competitors in an international competition to find the best machine learning technologies for identifying brain states and behavioural intentions using brain waves. The BEETL AI Challenge for EEG Transfer Learning competition, sponsored by Facebook Reality Labs, was held as part of the prestigious NeurIPS 2021 machine learning conference. [...]
EEGminer: Discovering Interpretable Features of Brain Activity with Learnable Filters
Patterns of brain activity are associated with different brain processes and can be used to identify different brain states and make behavioral predictions. However, the relevant features are not readily apparent and accessible. To mine informative latent representations from multichannel EEG recordings, we propose a novel differentiable EEG decoding pipeline consisting of learnable filters and [...]
What can my brain tell me about the music I listen to ?
Dr. Dimitrios Adamos and Dr. Stefanos Zafeiriou from the Department of Computing, Imperial College London explore how brain waves can tell you about the music you listen to as part of a Live Science residency at the Science Museum. The #MyBrainTunes experiment, that ran at the Science Museum from February – March 2020, used the [...]
A discriminative covariance-reduction approach for BCIs
A Riemannian geometry approach to reduced and discriminative covariance estimation in Brain Computer Interfaces: Github
The AREADNE conferences bring scientific leaders from around the world to present their recent findings on the functioning of neuronal ensembles in an informal yet spectacular setting on Santorini. The conference series emphasizes interaction with a size and pace that encourages in-depth discussion. Interested researchers are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract for poster presentation [...]
Building a silicon brain to simulate complex brain modelling
Contemporary AI systems still lack high-level cognitive and learning skills. With the help of digital neuromorphic chips, scientists now aim to accurately model how humans can quickly and easily learn a cognitive task, such as a new board game. In digital neuromorphic chips, silicon ‘neurons’ replicate the way information flows in biological neurons but with [...]
BrainNet allows collaborative problem-solving using direct brain-to-brain communication. The interface combines electroencephalography (EEG) to record brain signals and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to deliver information noninvasively to the brain. It allows three human subjects to collaborate and solve a task using direct brain-to-brain communication. Read more at MIT Technology Review Read the Arxiv Paper
“Decoding Thoughts and Dreams Using In-Brain Electrodes” | Moran Cerf (Talks at Google)
Moran Cerf describes his lab’s work studying the brains of humans using unique tools to eavesdrop on the activity of individual cells of patients undergoing brain surgery while they are awake and behaving. He discusses how the work sheds light on the ways our brain processes information, and reflects on what it tells us about [...]
Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction
Shannon’s mathematical theory of communication defines fundamental limits on how much information can be transmitted between the different components of any man-made or biological system. This paper is an informal but rigorous introduction to the main ideas implicit in Shannon’s theory. An annotated reading list is provided for further reading. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.05968
Music perception triggers brain rhythms multiplexing: EEG experimental evidence
A new study reports for the first time functional interactions among brain rhythms in music perception using a novel, elegant, multiplex-aware approach based on a community detection algorithm. The approach was motivated by recent trends in Network Science that focus on the multi-scaled character of complex network systems. A novel, elegant, multiplex-aware framework is introduced, [...]
Engineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
Engineers at MIT have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the strength of an electric current flowing across it, similar to the way ions flow between neurons. The team has built a small chip with artificial synapses, made from silicon germanium. In simulations, the researchers found that the [...]
2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: over 50 Experts and Innovators shaping Brain Health & Enhancement
The Summit is a fully online 3-day gathering featuring over forty of the world’s top experts and innovators working on ways to enhance brain health and performance in light of emerging neuroscience and digital technologies. Summit Sponsors include: AARP, VieLight, The Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation (ARPF), the Arrowsmith Program, Banner Health, EMOTIV, and Lumosity. [...]
Musical NeuroPicks: a consumer-grade BCI for on-demand music streaming services
We investigated the possibility of using a machine-learning scheme in conjunction with commercial wearable EEG-devices for translating listener’s subjective experience of music into scores that can be used in popular on-demand music streaming services. Our study resulted into two variants, differing in terms of performance and execution time, and hence, subserving distinct applications in online [...]
IEEE’s Special Report: “Can We Copy the Brain?”
Originally published June 2017, IEEE Spectrum
Neurotechnologies have reached to a point of interacting with the physical, digital and social world. That fundamental truth has opened a wealth of interest in neuroscience, in leadership sectors far beyond medicine. You may read the full article here
Mice predatory instinct controlled by scientists using optogenetics
Yale University researchers have isolated the predatory instinct neural circuitry in mice. Then, using optogenetic engineering, they were able to selectively activate these neurons. With the laser switched to ‘ON’, “the mice take on qualities of “walkers” from The Walking Dead, pursuing and biting almost anything in their path, including bottle caps and wood sticks.” [...]
A new systems-neuroscience mailing list targeted to the wider field of Systems Neuroscience with the aim of distributing useful information about job and conference calls to a large number of researchers in the field. More information about this mailing list can be found at the address: http://www.systemsneuroscience.eu
IEEE EMBS Lecture: MINeD Graphs from time-resolved functional brain connectomics
The concept of functional connectivity is central for understanding the synergistic behavior of brain regions which form distributed networks. With the fast advancement of neuroimaging techniques and the subsequent development of sophisticated signal-analytic methodologies, connectivity can nowadays be assessed in various ways. Often, the descriptive power of graphs is exploited by turning connectivity measurements into [...]
The only way an algorithm can tell if you really like a song is by scanning your brain
A team of Greek scientists has discovered how to tell how much you like a particular song by literally reading your mind. And they want to fit it into Spotify, Apple Music, and other similar online music streaming services. No more stars. No more likes and dislikes. No more hearts. It will all happen automatically. [...]
RoboSkeleton Brain-Machine Interface enables paraplegics to regain motor control
Eight chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) paraplegics were subjected to long-term training BMI neurorehabilitation paradigm to restore locomotion. The paradigm combined virtual reality training, visual-tactile feedback and walking with two EEG-controlled robotic actuators providing tactile feedback to subjects. All eight patients experienced neurological improvements in somatic sensation and regained voluntary motor control in key muscles [...]
Is the Digital Music Industry ready to hack the Musical Brain ?
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the digital revolution has radically affected the music industry and is continuously reforming the business model of music economy. As of today, previously-established channels of music distribution have been replaced and new industry stakeholders have emerged. Among them, on-demand music recommendation and streaming services feature as the disruptive [...]
Neuroengineering in action: hacking the brain to bypass the injured spine
Neuroscientists used a chronically implanted intracortical microelectrode array to record multiunit activity from the motor cortex and link in real-time to muscle activation to restore movement in a paralysed human. Read more @ Nature: - the full story: First paralysed person to be ‘reanimated’ offers neuroscience insights - the scientific report (letter): Restoring cortical control [...]
A brain-machine interface to allow primates to navigate a robotic wheelchair using their thoughts
The interface, described in the March 3 issue of the online journal Scientific Reports, demonstrates the future potential for people with disabilities who have lost most muscle control and mobility due to quadriplegia or ALS, said senior author Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., co-director for the Duke Center for Neuroengineering. You may read the research report [...]
DARPA invests $60M to upgrade communication between human brain and the digital world
New effort aims for fully implantable devices able to connect with up to one million neurons. DARPA aims to upgrade signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the human brain and the digital world. “The interface would serve as a translator, converting between the electrochemical language used by neurons in the brain and the ones and [...]
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Latest trends in Brain Computer Interfaces pave the way for practical devices that patients can use in their homes. Read more at Scientific American here
Presidential Lecture by Prof. John Michael O’Keefe @FFRM2015
Opening Ceremony of FENS Featured Regional Meeting 2015 by the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014, Prof. John Michael O’Keefe Lecture Title : Can entorhinal Grid cells provide the metric for the Cognitive Map More details: http://ffrm2015.com/programme/presidentian-lecture
NeuroElectro: organizing information on cellular neurophysiology
NeuroElectro is a framework for organizing information on the cellular neurophysiology of different neuron types. Its goal is to extract information about the electrophysiological properties (e.g. resting membrane potentials and membrane time constants) of diverse neuron types from the existing literature and place it into a centralized database. Read more: http://www.neuroelectro.org
Human to human interface demo: how to control someone else’s arm with your brain
Greg Gage uses a simple, inexpensive neuroscience DIY kit to take away the free will of an audience member. More: http://www.ted.com/talks/greg_gage_how_to_control_someone_else_s_arm_with_your_brain
Final call for abstracts – FENS Featured Regional Meeting 2015
This is the final call for abstracts for the 2015 FENS Featured Regional Meeting. The final abstract submission deadline of Friday, May 15, 2015 is approaching! We invite you to participate by submitting your abstracts for poster presentation. For details on the abstract submission process, and to review the submission guidelines, please visit http://www.ffrm2015.com/abstracts. Meetings’ [...]
A kickstarter campaign towards the neural assessment of baseball hit decisions has just launched. PC and mobile apps will offer an interface to compare the user’s performance to that of professional/collegiate players. Read more: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1662440606/decervoprofile2015-baseball-neural-precision/
Visual Cortical Prosthesis with a Geomagnetic Compass Restores Spatial Navigation in Blind Rats
By hooking up the brains of blind rats to compasses, scientists in Japan found the sightless rodents could navigate a maze nearly as well as normally sighted rats. Read more at IEEE Spectrum Online
FENS Featured Regional Meeting (FFRM) 2015
The Federation of European Neurosciences Societies (FENS) and the National Hellenic, Israeli and Serbian Neuroscience Societies are honoured to announce that the International FENS conference FENS Featured Regional Meeting (FFRM) will take place in Thessaloniki from October 7-10, 2015 at the “Ioannis Vellidis” congress centre. On a biennial basis, the FFRM enables interdisciplinary scientific interaction amongst leading neuroscientists and pioneering scientists of [...]
DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program test out early versions of the DEKA Arm System Read more: Dean Kamen’s “Luke Arm” Prosthesis Receives FDA Approval
Neural bionics: hot-wiring the nervous system
Smart neural stimulators that sense and adjust the patient’s treatment in real time. Read online: Smart Neural Stimulators Listen to the Body, IEEE Spectrun Online Hot-wiring the nervous system, IEEE SPECTRUM 02.2015
An Argus II Retinal Prosthesis Device activated as a visual aid to stimulate the brain. Read the full story here
University of Washington researchers link in realtime one person’s brain with another person’s over the Internet. During the demo, signals from one person’s brain are used to control the hand motions of another person within a second. You may also read: UW study shows direct brain interface between humans Rao RPN, Stocco A, Bryan M, [...]
Conscious non-invasive Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans
Researchers demonstrate a proof-of-concept brain-to-brain information transmission from India to France was realized using internet-linked EEG and TMS technologies respectively. The first-of-its-kind study was published in PLOS ONE. More information is available below: Direct brain-to-brain communication demonstrated in human subjects @ ScienceDaily Grau C, Ginhoux R, Riera A, Nguyen TL, Chauvat H, et al. (2014) Conscious [...]
IBM hits a new neuro-inspired computing milestone
Inspired by the brain’s structure, IBM and Cornell University researchers have developed an efficient, scalable, and flexible non–von Neumann architecture in a 5.4-billion-transistor chip with 4096 neurosynaptic cores interconnected via an intrachip network that integrates 1 million programmable spiking neurons and 256 million configurable synapses. You may reach the details in the following publications: Paul [...]
Transcranial stimulation of the developing brain: a plea for extreme caution
An opinion study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience that focuses on the risk assessment of translating brain stimulation procedures to pediatric cases. By NJ Davis, Department of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, UK You may read the full article here Related work: “Non-invasive” brain stimulation is not non-invasive
A non-parametric prototyping scheme for LFP dynamics and its application to detect changes in spontaneous UP-states due to cortical maturation and aging
Spontaneous network activity in the form of Up and Down states plays an important role in the function of neural circuits and reflects intrinsic connectivity. Such cortical dynamics are shaped by genes, experience and intrinsic cellular properties and form the substrate upon which external stimuli and neuromodulation will impinge to determine cortical responses. The scope [...]
Exploiting the temporal patterning of transient VEP signals: A statistical single-trial methodology with implications to brain–computer interfaces
When visual evoked potentials (VEPs) are deployed in brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), the emphasis is put on stimulus design. In the case of transient VEPs (TVEPs) brain responses are never treated individually, i.e. on a single-trial (ST) basis, due to their poor signal quality. Therefore their main characteristic, which is the emergence during early latencies, remains [...]
By: Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D. Neuroimaging evidence suggests that brain connectivity circuits are highly plastic and change with experience due to emotional processing. The individuality of this plasticity is formed in an experience-dependent fashion. Read the whole article in Cerebrum
The NeuroScience Gateway portal offers free access to supercomputers for parallel simulations
The NeuroScience Gateway portal provides free access to computational neuroscientists to run parallel simulations, free of charge, on supercomputers using tools like GENESIS, NEURON, NEST, Brian, and PyNN.To get started, visit http://www.nsgportal.org
Real-time restoration of sensory and motor functions with bionic hand
A prosthetic hand wired to nerves in an amputee’s upper arm allowed the patient to feel sensory rich information, grasp objects intuitively and identify what he was touching while blindfolded. The sense of touch was achieved through the interpretation of sensory electrical signals to spikes transmitted into four electrodes that were surgically implanted into the [...]
FDA grants approval for neurostimulation device to treat epilepsy
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted premarket approval for the NeuroPace® RNS® System to treat medically refractory epilepsy. The RNS System is a novel, implantable therapeutic device that delivers responsive neurostimulation, an advanced technology designed to detect abnormal electrical activity in the brain and respond by delivering imperceptible levels of electrical stimulation to [...]
Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles The AREADNE conferences bring scientific leaders from around the world to present their recent findings on the functioning of neuronal ensembles in an informal yet spectacular setting on Santorini. The conference series emphasizes interaction with a size and pace that encourages in-depth discussion. Interested researchers are strongly [...]
The federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) intends to spend more than $70 million over five years on Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) research, under the support of the Obama administration “BRAIN” Initiative. DARPA created the Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) program to pursue advances in neuroscience and neurotechnology that will attempt to develop [...]
Reading minds: reverse engineering the brain
Neuroscientists monitor brain activity to predict thoughts, dreams and even intentions. Neuroscientists face the cracking of complex codes as a means to resolve how the brain organizes and stores information in the first place. Read the full story at Nature
Brain inspired computing: neuro-inspired processors by Qualcomm
Qualcomm delivers new computer processors – Qualcomm Zeroth – that mimics the human brain and nervous system so devices can have embedded cognition driven by brain inspired computing. The final goal of Qualcomm Zeroth is to create, define and standardize a new processing architecture called a Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Read more at Qualcomm here
Researchers at the Usenix Security conference have demonstrated a zero-day vulnerability in your brain. Using a commercial off-the-shelf brain-computer interface, the researchers have shown that it’s possible to hack your brain, forcing you to reveal information that you’d rather keep secret. Read the whole story at ExtremeTech
Brain-to-brain interface between humans and animals
Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human and a rat. The human wears a run-of-the-mill EEG-based BCI, while the mouse is equipped with a focused ultrasound (FUS) computer-brain interface (CBI). FUS is a relatively new technology that allows the researchers to excite a very specific region of [...]
Transcranial direct current stimulation headset receives FCC approval. Foc.us, the first brain-boosting tDCS headset, has finally received FCC approval and will begin shipping in the next few days. The headset jolts your prefrontal cortex with electricity, improving your focus, reaction time, and ability to learn new skills. The Foc.us is being targeted at gamers looking [...]
Neuroscience to Benefit from Hybrid Supercomputer Memory
Motivated by extraordinary requirements for neuroscience, IBM Research, EPFL, and ETH Zürich through the Swiss National Supercomputing Center CSCS, are exploring how to combine different types of memory – DRAM, which is standard for computer memory, and flash memory that is akin to USB sticks – for less expensive and optimal supercomputing performance. Given the [...]
Latest research is revealing that glia are far more active and mysterious than we’d ever suspected.Read more at SciAm Mind (June 24, 2013): A Secret Society of Cells Runs Your Brain
Nengo is a new graphical and scripting based software package for simulating large-scale neural systems. Nengo helps make detailed spiking neuron models that implement complex high-level cognitive algorithms. Among other things, Nengo has been used to implement motor control, visual attention, serial recall, action selection, working memory, attractor networks, inductive reasoning, path integration, and planning [...]
Postdoctoral Position at the SiNAPSE Institute, Singapore
Inquiries and applications are invited from highly productive, creative and ambitious young scientists for a postdoctoral fellowship in the recently launched the SiNAPSE Institute (www.sinapseinstitute.com) – a multidisplinary research Institute devoted to research on neurotechnologies, cognitive sciences, basic cellular/molecular neuroengineering, and translational and clinically motivated research at the National University of Singapore under the direction [...]
The “Human Brain Project” shares largest research excellence award in history
The Human Brain Project shares largest research excellence award in history, a multi-billion euro competition of Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) of the European Commission. The “Human Brain Project” will create the world’s largest experimental facility for developing the most detailed model of the brain, for studying how the human brain works and ultimately to [...]
More than 1,200 projects supported by the European Union Brain research supported by the European Union 2007-2012 – A unique commitment 23.9 MB (560 Pages) European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation Directorate F: Health Unit F2: Medical Research Area: Brain Research Contact: Philippe Cupers Email: Philippe.cupers@ec.europa.eu Helpdesk: RTD-HEALTH@ec.europa.eu European Commission Directorate-General for Research and InnovationDirectorate F: [...]
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Scientists Wire Two Rats’ Brains Together
Scientists have reported a brain-to-brain interface (BTBI) that enabled a real-time transfer of behaviorally meaningful sensorimotor information between the brains of two rats to create a computational unit out of two brains. However, neuroscientists in the field of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) have expressed critics on the report. The full article is available here: M. Pais-Vieira, [...]
The FDA’s green light for Second Sight’s Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System gives hope to those blinded by a rare genetic eye condition called advanced retinitis pigmentosa, which damages the light-sensitive cells that line the retina. The Argus II includes a small video camera, a transmitter mounted on a pair of eyeglasses, a video processing [...]
Dominant-Sets clustering for spike sorting
The decision about the actual number of active neurons is an open issue in spike sorting, with sparsely firing neurons and background activity the most influencing factors. Dominant-sets clustering algorithm is a graph-theoretical algorithmic procedure that successfully addresses this issue. The quality of grouping in the data is evaluated with the estimation of ‘cohesiveness’, i.e. [...]
Using ISOMAP algorithm for feature extraction in spike sorting
Background noise and spike overlap pose problems in contemporary spike-sorting strategies. The (non-linear) isometric feature mapping (ISOMAP) technique reveals the intrinsic data structure and helps with recognising the involved neurons. To reproduce this tutorial in MATLAB you will need : 1. ISOMAP source code for MATLAB (for more information and updated version see here: http://isomap.stanford.edu) [...]
NeuroRighter is an open-source system for multi-electrode closed-loop recording and stimulation originally produced by the Potter Lab at Georgia Tech. The software is free, and the hardware schematics and layouts are free for download. NeuroRighter is available here
Sight Restoration Comes into Focus: Versions of Visual Prostheses
While the first visual prosthetic is approaching the market, a few new retinal/cortical implants are in the wings. Argus II became the first commercially available visual prosthesis seeking to receive approval to reach the market in the United States by late 2012. As the excitement over the Argus II increases at a fever pitch, other sight [...]
Scholarpedia:2012 Brain Corporation Prize in Computational Neuroscience
Current and aspiring computational neuroscientists are invited to participate in a global experiment in scholarship and collaboration. Scholarpedia, with funding from Brain Corporation, would like to develop as a public resource the world’s most open, comprehensive, current, and scholarly computational neuroscience encyclopedia. To this end, Brain Corporation is offering $10,000 (US) in prizes for writing and publishing the [...]
Clustering Algorithms in Biomedical Research: A Review
Applications of clustering algorithms in biomedical research are ubiquitous. However, due to the diversity of cluster analysis, the diversity of critical elements underlying different clustering algorithms can be daunting. This paper presents an overview of the status quo of clustering algorithms and illustrates examples of biomedical applications based on cluster analysis. Access the review paper [...]
In quest of the missing neuron: Spike sorting based on dominant-sets clustering
Spike sorting algorithms aim at decomposing complex extracellular signals to independent events from single neurons in the electrode’s vicinity. The decision about the actual number of active neurons is still an open issue, with sparsely firing neurons and background activity the most influencing factors. We introduce a graph-theoretical algorithmic procedure that successfully resolves this issue. Dimensionality [...]
Data Release from Mouse Brain Architecture Project
The first installment of data has been released for the Mouse Brain Architecture Project, at a “mesoscopic” scale corresponding to brain regions in classical neuroanatomy. The goal of the Mouse Brain Architecture (MBA) project is to generate brainwide maps of inter-regional neural connectivity. The data just released – the first in what will be a [...]
People with paralysis control robotic arms using brain-computer interface
Advances in brain-computer interfaces, restorative neurotechnology, and assistive robot technology reported in Nature by the BrainGate2 collaboration of researchers, allowed two people with tetraplegia to reach for and grasp objects in three-dimensional space using robotic arms that they controlled directly with brain activity. The BrainGate2 pilot clinical trial employs the investigational BrainGate system, initially developed [...]
Last Monday, researchers have presented a prototype sensor that measures unique electrical properties of a patient’s body to recognize his identity. The research work was presented at the 3rd Usenix Workshop of Health Security and Privacy, in Bellevue, Washington. Read more here: Cornelius C. et al, “Who Wears Me? Bioimpedance as a Passive Biometric“, HealthSec 2012.
Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons
Building the first low-power, large-scale digital model of the brain. A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet. By Steve Furber The proposed architecture, SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture), will be able to simulate the behavior of 1 billion neurons. That’s just 1 percent as many [...]
Bio-Inspired robotic legs mimic human walking gait
A group of US researchers has produced a robotic set of legs which they believe is the first to fully model walking in a biologically accurate manner. The neural architecture, musculoskeletal architecture and sensory feedback pathways in humans have been simplified and built into the robot, giving it a remarkably human-like walking gait that can [...]
Restoration of grasp following paralysis through brain-controlled stimulation of muscles
Researchers have developed a brain-controlled functional electrical stimulation (FES) system in primates. Electrode recordings, from micro-electrodes permanently implanted in the brain, are used to predict the intended activity of several of the paralysed muscles. These predictions are further employed for the intensity control of stimulation of the same muscles. This process of bypassing the spinal [...]
Postdoctoral position in Experimental / Theoretical Neuroscience in Heraklion, Crete
The Computational Biology Lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (IMBB-FORTH), headed by Dr. Panayiota Poirazi, invites applications for a postdoctoral (or senior researcher) position (24 months). The position will be available as part of the EC-FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) NAMASEN offering research training in [...]
Neural Recordings: Robot Reveals the Inner Workings of Brain Cells
Researchers at MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to automate the process of finding and recording information from neurons in the living brain. The researchers have shown that a robotic arm guided by a cell-detecting computer algorithm can identify and record from neurons in the living mouse brain with better [...]
Postdoctoral Research Position at Carnegie Mellon University
A postdoctoral research position is available at Carnegie Mellon University for collaborative research on statistical analysis of neural data. The research topics will be selected based, in part, on the skills and interests of the candidate. Work would be supervised by Rob Kass who is interested especially in developing new methods for analyzing data from [...]
Algorithms Replace Spinal Cord In New Approach to Neural Prosthetics
Looping around a dysfunctional spinal cord and plugging back into a paralyzed arm, reanimating it with electrical pulses. http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/bionics/algorithms-replace-the-spinal-cord-in-a-new-approach-to-neural-prosthetics
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Beyond Medical Applications
This IEEE article addresses challenges facing BCI systems in non-medical applications (many of which are also present in life sciences applications outside the area of assistive care. BCI designers must address a range of usability, integration, standardization, and ethical issues to enable the growth of BCI applications. By Jan B.F. van Erp, Fabien Lotte, and [...]
The Virtual Brain will deliver the first open simulation of the human brain based on individual large-scale connectivity. First teaser release of The Virtual Brain software suite available for download – for Windows, Mac and Linux: http://thevirtualbrain.org/
TRENTOOL: A Matlab open source toolbox to analyse information flow in time series data with transfer entropy
TRENTOOL is an implementation of transfer entropy and mutual information analysis based on Wiener’s causality principle, aiming at the detection of model-free neuronal interactions in neural networks. TRENTOOL is available as an open-source MATLAB toolbox, available under an open source license (GPL v3), “that allows the user to handle the considerable complexity of this measure [...]
Book chapter | ‘Extracellular spikes and current-source density’
Preprint of the forthcoming book chapter ‘Extracellular spikes and current-source density’ featuring the numerical framework biophysics for the calculation of extracellular potentials from transmembrane currents in multi-compartment neuron models, using the line-source method (Holt & Koch, J Comp Neurosci 1999). The chapter is to appear on the forthcoming book: K.H. Pettersen, H. Linden, A.M. Dale and [...]
LFPy | Extracellular field potential add-on for NEURON simulator
LFPy is a Python package for calculation of extracellular potentials from multicompartment neuron models. It relies on the NEURON simulator and uses the Python interface it provides. LFPy provides a set of easy-to-use Python classes for setting up your model, running your simulations and calculating the extracellular potentials arising from activity in your model neuron. If you have [...]
Book: ‘The Elements of Statistical Learning’
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Download the book PDF (corrected 5th printing) here: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
March 12-18, 2012 For details see: http://dana.org/brainweek/
Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
Intracranial recordings (ECoG) from nonprimary auditory cortex in the human superior temporal gyrus were reconstructed in to speech sounds. You may read the article here: Pasley BN , David SV , Mesgarani N , Flinker A , Shamma SA , et al. 2012 Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex. PLoS Biol 10(1): e1001251, or listen [...]
AREADNE 2012 Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles Nomikos Conference Centre, Santorini, Greece 21-24 June 2012 http://areadne.org info@areadne.org The AREADNE conferences bring scientific leaders from around the world to present their recent findings on the functioning of neuronal ensembles in an informal yet spectacular setting on Santorini. The conference emphasizes interaction with a [...]
Towards reliable spike-train recordings from thousands of neurons with multielectrodes
A review article describing challenges towards accurate multi-electrode automatic spike sorting. The article emphasizes the absence of ground truth and the need of realistic modeling in the validation step of spike-sorting algorithms. You may read the article here: Einevoll GT, Franke F, Hagen E, Pouzat C, Harris KD. Towards reliable spike-train recordings from thousands of [...]
In a first-ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body, two monkeys trained at the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering learned to employ brain activity alone to move an avatar hand and identify the texture of virtual objects. You may read the news report at Duke University here or [...]
Online wiki release of “Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience” textbook
The 2nd Edition of “Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience” (O’Reilly & Munakata, 2000) is available as a free wiki textbook. The book is available here: http://grey.colorado.edu/CompCogNeuro/index.php/CCNBook/Main From the same page, it can also be ordered as a hard-copy book, printed by PediaPress (see link at top of above page). A major component of the book [...]
Spike sorting based on noise-assisted semi-supervised learning methodologies
SAN 2011 abstract in Neuroscience Letters 2011, vol. 500(Suppl.), e32-33.- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2011.05.161 Also, see presentation in SAN 2011
Quality metrics to accompany spike sorting of extracellular signals
A review on visualization schemes and quality metrics used to evaluate the success of spike sorting procedures, published in Journal of Neuroscience. You may read the article here: Hill DN, Mehta SB and Kleinfeld D. Quality metrics to accompany spike sorting of extracellular signals. J Neurosci (2011) vol. 31 (24) pp. 8699-705
Spike Sorting: The First Step in Decoding the Brain
An overview of the spike sorting problem and challenges in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. You may read the article here: Gibson et al. Spike Sorting: The First Step in Decoding the Brain. Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE (2012) vol. 29 (1) pp. 124 – 143 For an extended review on available contemporary algorithms in the spike [...]
Performance comparison of extracellular spike sorting algorithms for single-channel recordings
A review and comparative analysis paper of contemporary algorithms in the spike sorting domain, published in Journal of Neuroscience Methods. Wild J et al. “Performance comparison of extracellular spike sorting algorithms for single-channel recordings“. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2011, vol.203 (2), pp. 369-76; doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.10.013
An introductory review of information theory in the context of computational neuroscience
A nice review paper presenting introductory fundamental concepts of information theory, from engineering to neuroscience. The paper was published as: McDonnell MD, Ikeda S and Manton JH, ”An introductory review of information theory in the context of computational neuroscience“, Biological Cybernetics 2011;105(1):55-70. Also available in PDF format here.
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Enhancing BCIs through electrocorticography (ECoG)
Electrocorticography (ECoG) records the “high-gamma” (>60 Hz) frequency profile of the cortex, featuring a temporal resolution of the order of milliseconds [1]. Coupled with a software interface, the use of ECoG was explored in a Brain Computer Interface study when participants were asked to either think or say different vowel sounds [2]. While the recorded [...]
An example of a spike sorting task using ‘nev2lkit enhanced‘ tool. Nev2lkit acts as a preprocessor for the extracellularly recorded data, extracting neural waveforms (i.e. spikes) from the continuous time series. Nev2lkit enhanced features user-customized optimization of the time-window used during the spike extraction procedure. Consequently, Nev2lkit employs Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in the spike [...]
Brains for Brains 2011 | Young Researchers Computational Neuroscience Award
The call is open for students from relevant disciplines who plan to pursue a research career in Computational Neuroscience and who have at least one peer reviewed publication or peer reviewed conference abstract that resulted from research accomplished before the start of doctoral studies, is written in English and was accepted or published in 2010 [...]
Information theory methods in Neuroscience
Back in 1948, Shannon introduced Information Theory with his landmark paper “A mathematical theory of communication”[1]. Since then, Neuroscience has been treated by researchers as a major field of application of this new theory, beyond its original scope. A recent special issue of the Journal of Computational Neuroscience on Methods of Information Theory in Neuroscience [...]
Rubén Moreno-Bote’s lab. Foundation Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain. A position (PhD or Postdoc) is available in the group of Theoretical Neuroscience of Rubén Moreno-Bote in the Foundation Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain. Candidates are needed with Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science or similar backgrounds, ideally with knowledge of Neuroscience or Computational Neuroscience, and [...]
Post-doctoral position in Theoretical Neuroscience at INRIA
Study of Stochastic Models in Neuroscience. The post is part of the TOSCA, a joint project-team between INRIA and the University of Nancy, located in Nancy and Sophia-Antipolis. The post-doc student will participate to the theoretical studies of the Tosca team on the probability distributions of the spike trains processes and of the McKean-Vlasov stochastic [...]
June 18-22, 2011 The Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, CA An intensive hands-on course that covers the design, construction, and use of models in the NEURON simulation environment. The course is designed to be useful and informative for registrants at all levels of experience, from those who are just beginning to [...]
Advanced Scientific Programming Summer School in Python
September 11—16, 2011. St Andrews, UK. Organized by the G-Node and the School of Psychology, University of St Andrews This school is targeted at PhD students and Post-docs from all areas of science. Competence in Python or in another language such as Java, C/C++, MATLAB, or Mathematica is absolutely required. Basic knowledge of Python is assumed. [...]
INCF proposals for Google Summer of Code 2011
INCF has published a list of potential projects within Google Summer of Code 2011. The INCF is a professional organization devoted to advancing the field of neuroinformatics. One of its aims is to develop an international neuroinformatics infrastructure, which promotes the sharing of data and computing resources to the international research community. For more details, [...]
NASS: an empirical approach to spike sorting with overlap resolution based on a hybrid noise-assisted methodology
Background noise and spike overlap pose problems in contemporary spike-sorting strategies. In this paper, both issues are addressed by a hybrid scheme that combines the robust representation of spike waveforms to facilitate the reliable identification of contributing neurons with efficient data learning to enable the precise decomposition of coactivations. A recently introduced manifold learning technique, [...]
After testing an iPhone, an iPad and an eye-tracking device as possible user interfaces to maneuver the research car named “MadeInGermany”, brain-power is also used. Neuro-signals are acquired using the commercial Emotiv EEG (electroenzephalogram) tool. For more details you may visit the Braindriver project page.
BCCN Doctoral Program on “Sensory Computation in Neural Systems”
Starting from March 2010 the BCCN PhD program will be conducted in the framework of the Research Training Group “Sensory Computation in Neural Systems” (GRK 1598/1). Application deadline: March 15, 2011 Interviews with selected candidates: mid-June 2011 Beginning of courses: October 2011 Candidates admitted to the PhD program are expected to hold a Masters degree [...]
Summer Program in Computational Neuroscience at UPenn
May 31 – July 29, 2011. Applications are invited for an intensive summer program of hands-on training to introduce undergraduate students to the principles and techniques of computational neuroscience. The summer program will be directed by Dr. Michael Kahana (University of Pennsylvania) and Joshua Jacobs (Drexel University), in collaboration with over 25 Neuroscience faculty from [...]
Postdoctoral Positions in Computational Neuroscience
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, New laboratory (From April, 2011. Laboratory head: Taro Toyoizumi) The lab is interested in the information theoretical analysis of neural circuits and the modeling of activity-dependent plasticity in the brain. Job title and Research Field Postdoctoral Research Scientist (Number of positions: 1 or 2) in Computational Neuroscience Job Description and Qualification Highly motivated postdoctoral [...]
Research assistant position in auditory neuroscience
A research assistant position is available to work on a Wellcome Trust funded project that will use MEG functional brain imaging to investigate the neural systems that support auditory change detection in the human brain. Supervision Dr Maria Chait (UCL Ear Institute) and Prof. Tim Griffiths (Newcastle University). The post holder will be based at [...]
Postdoc Position in Experimental Neuroscience
A postdoctoral position is available at the Carandini Lab at University College London. The researcher is expected to work on exciting projects aimed at establishing neural responses to visual stimuli and neural correlates of perceptual behaviors, at the levels of circuits and systems in the mouse brain. The techniques involve combinations of multielectrode recordings, optogenetics, imaging, operant conditioning, and virtual reality [...]
Nerve Stimulation Shown to Reverse Common Type of Hearing Impairment
Targeted Vagus-nerve stimulation could reverse Tinnitus, a hearing impairment affecting almost 10% of senior citizens and 40% of military veterans. Tinnitus is caused by damage to the inner ear which results in changes to the sound localization at the brain’s auditory cortex. Researchers from University of Texas and MicroTransponder spin-off company published in Nature a [...]
Postdoc Positions in Cognitive, Developmental and Systems Neuroscience
The Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships in the following areas: numerical, symbolic and mathematical cognition, dyscalculia, and learning disabilities large-scale brain organization, networks and connectivity multimodal neuroimaging of cognitive strengths and weakness in autism spectrum disorders auditory cognition, speech and language. Candidates are expected to have a demonstrated record [...]
Paris School of Neuroscience – Spring School 2011
Paris School of Neuroscience – Spring School 2011 Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience Application deadline: 31 January 2011 Dates: Tuesday April 12th – Friday April 20th 2011 Université Paris Descartes, 45 Rue des Saints Pères, 75006 Paris TOPICS Photophysics and photochemistry of fluorophores. Data analysis and image analysis. Conventional and confocal microscopy. CCD [...]
PhD Position in Theoretical/Computational Neuroscience
The chair of Theoretical Biophysics at the Physik Department of the Technical University of Munich (T35, Professor J. Leo van Hemmen) has openings for outstanding graduate students with a background in either theoretical physics or applied mathematics. Examples of possible topics for the doctoral dissertation that should finish the candidates’ education as a graduate student [...]
Postdoctoral position in System Neuroscience
The aim of this project is the deciphering of neural mechanisms of vocal learning, and in particular the role of the Basal Ganglia (BG), using the songbird model. It relies on an interdisciplinary approach combining experimental (including electrophysiology and optogenetics) and theoretical (computational modeling) approaches. Human speech is a complex motor skill and vocal learning [...]
An Expectation-Maximization tutorial in neural signal analysis
In this tutorial by Dr. Liam Paninski, the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is discussed and illustrated in a variety of neural examples. Key topics addressed: Example: Mixture models and spike sorting The method of bound optimization via auxiliary functions provides a useful alternative optimization technique The EM algorithm for maximizing the likelihood given hidden data may be derived [...]
Tutorial on Geometrical Data Analysis: Algorithms for Vectorial Pattern-Analysis
By Dr. Nikolaos A. Laskaris The term ‘‘pattern’’, currently, encompasses the notion of a variety of data-forms the machines have to tackle with. Despite the fact that in early days it was used mostly for pictorial information, i.e. 2D-signals, now the same term stands almost for any output from a data-source. For instance, any digital-signal can be [...]
Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience 2011
The Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience is for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are interested in learning the essentials of the field. The course has two complementary parts. Mornings are devoted to lectures given by distinguished international faculty on topics across the breadth of experimental and computational neuroscience. During the rest of the [...]
Postdoc Position in Retinal Neurophysiology – Computational Neuroscience
A postdoctoral research position is available in the research group of Prof. Tim Gollisch at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany. The position is funded through the Collaborative Research Center (“Sonderforschungsbereich”) 889, which has recently been established in Göttingen and will provide a lively and integrative platform for investigating neuronal processing in sensory systems. The research group of Prof. Gollisch studies [...]
NeuroMorpho.Org is a centrally curated inventory of digitally reconstructed neurons associated with peer-reviewed publications. It contains contributions from over 40 laboratories worldwide and is continuously updated as new morphological reconstructions are collected, published, and shared. To date, NeuroMorpho.Org is the largest collection of publicly accessible 3D neuronal reconstructions and associated metadata. The goal of NeuroMorpho.Org is to [...]
Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2011
Methods, Neurons, Networks and Behaviors June 13 – June 30, 2011. Okinawa, Japan The aim of the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course is to provide opportunities for young researchers with theoretical backgrounds to learn the latest advances in neuroscience, and for those with experimental backgrounds to have hands-on experience in computational modeling. Graduate students and postgraduate researchers are [...]
The 2010 Progress Report on Brain Research
Published annually, the Progress Report describes the top findings in brain research during the previous year as selected by executive members of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. The 2010 report features in-depth articles on the genetics of psychiatric disorders, deep brain stimulation, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, memory, and neuroprotection, as well as a roundup [...]
Neurotycho aims to share reliable massive neural and behavioral data for understanding brain mechanism. The dataset was recorded and distributed by Laboratory for Adaptive Intelligence, BSI, RIKEN. It is not only for neuroscientists but for everyone who is interested in learning neural mechanism. Neurotycho.org is organized by Dr. Naotaka Fujii, who is a laboratory head [...]
Postdoctoral Position: Control of pathological brain dynamics in epilepsy
A postdoctoral position is available in collaborative group of Drs Talathi and Khargonekar and Carney (Dept of Pediatrics and Electrical and Computer Engineering) at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. The group’s ongoing research is in the general area of applications of computational neuroscience and control systems for epilepsy. The work initially will focus on [...]
What if Gaussian engineering is clear, simple and wrong?
R.W. Lucky discusses the Gaussian profile of our world in the November’s issue of IEEE Spectrum. Noise in neural systems usually carries a non-white complex correlated gaussian profile with higher power in low frequencies, due to synaptic coupling among neurons, superimposed field potentials etc. Furthermore, as it has already been argued for more than a [...]
Postdoctoral positions in Retinal Neurophysiology / Computational Neuroscience
Two postdoctoral research positions are available in the newly established lab of Prof. Tim Gollisch at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany. The group studies information processing and neural coding in the retinal network with a combination of electrophysiological and computational approaches. Experimental methods include extracellular multi-electrode array recordings, intracellular whole-cell patch-clamp recordings, and two-photon [...]
Postdoctoral position in multi-electrode array data analysis
A postdoctoral position is being offered under a BBSRC grant awarded to Dr Evelyne Sernagor (Newcastle), Dr Stephen Eglen (Cambridge) and Dr Matthias Hennig (Edinburgh). The aim of the project is to develop computational techniques for the analysis and visualisation of electrophysiological data recorded from 4096 electrode arrays. The cutting-edge technology high density multi-electrode array [...]
Postdoctoral Position in Mathematical Neuroscience
Rhythms in Central Pattern Generators Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. The successful candidate will work with Professor Jonathan Rubin and other collaborators on the mathematical and computational analysis of issues relating to rhythm generation and feedback [...]
Doctoral Program in Machine Learning and Computational Neuroscience
The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Berlin and the TU Berlin invite applications for *7 Fellowships* of the Research Training Group “Sensory Computation in Neural Systems”. Doctoral candidates will develop computational methods for the study of sensory computations, focusing on time and dynamics, and apply these in experiments. To this end, the training group [...]
Brain machine inteface snoops on human visual imagination
According to Nature, scientists have performed experiments, in which they were able to monitor individual neurons in a human brain associated with specific visual memories. The volunteers, having their brains implanted with electrodes, were able to control images on screen by changing firing rates in individual brain cells. The results imply a neural mechanism in [...]
Sniffing control for the severely disabled
Israeli researchers have developed a computer interface that translates nasal pressure into control signals, which enables the communication of paralyzed people suffering with “locked-in” syndrome. A widely distributed neural network was shown using FMRI of interface usage, while the interface shared neural substrates with language production. Locked-in syndrome is characterized by intact cognition yet complete [...]
Neurodebian – the Debian Neuroscience Repository
NeuroDebian aims to provide a turnkey software platform for nearly all aspects of the neuroscientific research process. The Neurodebian repository provides mostly neuroscience-related packages to be used on Debian systems (or Debian-derivatives like Ubuntu). It contains both unofficial or prospective packages which are not (yet) available from the main Debian archive, as well as backported [...]
A tutorial on PCA, LLE and ISOMAP by Dan Ventura (2008). You may access the tutorial here or visit the author’s “Advanced Neural Networks and Machine Learning” course home page.
A Global Geometric Framework for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction
The classic Tenenbaum‘s paper that introduces ISOMAP, a manifold learning approach featuring non-linear dimensionality reduction. J. B. Tenenbaum, V. De Silva and J. C. Langford (2000). Science 290 (5500), 2319-2323 You may access the full text of the document here, or visit the ISOMAP Homepage for further details, Matlab code and data sets.
Template matching methods for spike sorting
Template matching is a popular method in spike sorting, mostly employed in the overlap resolution task. Several algorithms have been proposed during the last 5 years, some of them featuring online implementations. Selected publications follow: Zhang et al. Spike sorting based on automatic template reconstruction with a partial solution to the overlapping problem. J Neurosci [...]
The dpt of Computer Engineering of the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute of the University of Tübingen offers a position starting October 1st, 2010. Type: Research assistant (PhD student, E13 50%) The position is available in the subproject C5 „Population Dynamics in Multi-Stable Perception“ of the Bernstein Center Tübingen „Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Inference“ which is a part of [...]
Department of Computer Science and Centre for Complexity Science, University of Warwick, UK The position refers to a 3-year fixed term contract, starting: 1.Feb.2011 The project is funded by the BBSRC that aims to investigate the role of calcium dynamics in neuronal computation underlying important brain functions. The project will be led by Dr Y [...]
Postdoctoral opportunities at The Neurosciences Institute
The Neurosciences Institute (http://www.nsi.edu) is seeking postdoctoral researchers in computational neuroscience to join an exciting, ongoing project to understand the biological bases of brain function. Successful candidates will be working with a multi-disciplinary team to create large scale spiking models of the mammalian nervous system incorporated into robotic devices. Neural systems addressed in this project [...]
Autumn School “Advanced Scientific Programming in Python”
An Autumn School by the G-Node, the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler October 4th—8th, 2010. Trento, Italy. Preliminary Program =================== Day 0 (Mon Oct 4) — Software Carpentry & Advanced Python • Documenting code and using version control • Object-oriented programming, design patterns, and agile programming • Exception handling, lambdas, decorators, [...]
An innovative researcher is needed, well versed in computational neuroscience, to join an interdisciplinary team at Qualcomm Corporate Research & Development (CR&D). Location: California – San Diego Skills/Experience: The ideal candidate will have an interdisciplinary background with extensive experience in experimental or computational neuroscience. Candidates must have in depth expertise in neurobiological systems. Knowledge / [...]
A Description of NeuroML in PLoS Computational Biology
A description of NeuroML (http://www.neuroml.org) has been published in PLoS Computational Biology. Padraig Gleeson, Sharon Crook, Robert C. Cannon, Michael L. Hines, Guy O. Billings, Matteo Farinella, Thomas M. Morse, Andrew P. Davison, Subhasis Ray, Upinder S. Bhalla, Simon R. Barnes, Yoana D. Dimitrova, R. Angus Silver NeuroML: A Language for Describing Data Driven Models [...]
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
The primary aims of the Journal are to provide a means of communicating the advances being made in the areas of biomechanics and biomedical engineering and to stimulate interest in the continually emerging computer based technologies which are being applied in these multidisciplinary subjects. The Journal will also provide a focus for the importance of [...]
The goal of the Journal is as a forum for the interdisciplinary field of neural engineering where neuroscientists, neurobiologists and engineers can publish their work in one periodical that bridges the gap between neuroscience and engineering. The scope of the Journal encompasses experimental, computational, theoretical, clinical and applied aspects of brain-machine (computer) interface neural interfacing [...]
Postdoctoral opportunities at the Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral research associate in Neuroscience
The Bioengineering group, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, offers a 1-year Post-Doc position immediately to candidates with a PhD in areas related to Neuroscience or Signal Processing (physics, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences). The focus of the project is to study single neuron correlates of conscious visual perception and behaviour in the human brain. The [...]
Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School 2010
BCBT is an annual international summer school that promotes a shared systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems. BCBT addresses students and researchers involved in research at the interface between brains and technology such as in the ambit of “Bio-ICT convergence” “Brain Inspired ICT” and “cognitive [...]
Postdoctoral position at University Medical Center Hamburg
The research group at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg, funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and by the Emmy Noether-Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) , Germany offers a position for a Postdoctoral Fellow. The group investigates the synchronized patterns of electrical activity in the immature brain, their relevance [...]
PhD position in machine learning and stochastic systems
Funding is available for a 3-year PhD stipend in the Machine Learning Group of Herbert Jaeger at Jacobs University Bremen, starting in August 2010 or later. The stipend amounts to 1000 Euro / month. This stipend offers great freedom, because it is not tied to a funded project. It is expected that the research under [...]
NWG-Course: Analysis and Models in Neurophysiology
October 10-15, 2010 / Freiburg, Germany Application deadline: June 30, 2010 Aim of the course The course is intended to provide advanced Diploma/Masters and PhD students, as well as young researchers from the neurosciences with approaches for the analysis of electrophysiological data and the theoretical concepts behind them. The course includes various topics such as [...]
CINN Summer School, University of Reading, UK
The summer school is directed at graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, computational neuroscience, mathematics, computer sciences and engineering, who wish to combine a theoretical approach to neurodynamics with practical experience in neuroimaging (MRI, EEG, TMS, fMRI-EEG, & EEG-TMS). Objective A successful approach to cognitive neuroscience and neurodynamics requires knowledge of both [...]
5th International Summerschool in Biomedical Engineering on “Multimodal integration of functional brain measurements”
The objective of the International Summer School is to provide in depth education on techniques of recording and analysing multi-modal data from non-invasive brain measurements, covering both theoretical foundations and practical applications. It aims at a thorough understanding of the underlying mechanisms and thus will develop a critical view on current applications and possible future [...]
Postdoctoral position in mathematical and computational neuroscience
A one year Post Doc position is available in the framework of the ANR project MANDy « Mathematical Analysis of Neuronal Dynamics » The project stands at the interface between mathematics and neuroscience, and will consist in studying the stochastic aspects of neuronal integration. The candidate will share his time between the Laboratoire de Probabilités [...]
Young Researchers’ Computational Neuroscience Award
The call is open for researchers of any nationality who have contributed to a scientific paper or reviewed conference abstract that was accepted for publication or published in the years 2009 or 2010. The award comprises a 500 € cash award, plus a travel fellowship of up to 1.500 € to cover a one-week trip [...]
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Movement Neuroscience
Newcastle University SALARY: from £27319 depending on experience. The successful applicant will investigate neural circuits involved in the production and reduction of tremor, in both the brain and spinal cord. You will use a range of methods, including in vivo single unit recording, computational modelling and non-invasive electrophysiology in human subjects. The ideal candidate has [...]
PostDoc position in Computational Neuroscience
A postdoctoral position is computational neuroscience is available in the “Physiology of Sensory Integration” group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany. The ideal candidate should have a strong theoretical background, good programming skills and will work on mathematical analysis of data derived from electrophysiological experiments. Our research focuses mechanisms of neural [...]
PostDoc and PhD Positions in Brain-Machine Interfaces
Six positions (3 Postdoc, 3 Ph.D. students) are available at the University of Florida to develop next generation brain-machine Interfaces (BMI). This project seeks to develop a transformative experimental and computational approach capable of translating a user’s intention into commands to control machines, facilitating the incorporation of artificial neural substrates into biological representation, and adapting [...]
The Brain Dynamics Group at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience led by Dr. Bruce McNaughton is looking for postdoctoral fellows. Research will be focused on neuronal dynamics and information processing in normal brains and in brains affected by diverse neurological disorders (e.g.: stroke, Parkinson’s disease, MS, epilepsy, aging). In our group we are combining [...]
Brain Corporation jobs: Computational Neuroscientist (motor control)
Two full-time positions in computational neuroscience are available immediately at Brain Corporation, San Diego, CA at the level of scientist (postdoc), senior scientist (assistant professor), or principal scientist (associate/full professor), to collaborate with the existing team of vision neuroscientists to develop spiking models of motor control. A successful candidate will have a published record of [...]
Brain Corporation jobs: Vision Neuroscientist
A number of full-time vision neuroscience positions are available immediately at Brain Corporation, San Diego, CA at the level of scientist (postdoc), senior scientist (assistant professor), and principal scientist (associate/full professor) to complement the existing team of computational neuroscientists in developing a biologically detailed spiking model of the mammalian visual system. REQUIREMENTS: All candidates must [...]
PhD Position in Computational Neuroscience at University of Luebeck, Germany
The focus of the project “Integrated global information processing in the human brain” is to look at changes in the organization of global activity in the human brain during conscious experience. The candidate will, in collaboration with the other scientists in the project, develop and test multivariate tools to analyze global brain activity measured with [...]
Neuroinformatics course at Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA – August 14th to 29th, 2010 The objective of this two week course is to develop an understanding of the methods of managing and analyzing data sets from neurophysiological and behavioral measurements, particularly large data volumes that require systematic statistical and computational approaches. The course includes lectures on fundamental analytical methods, established [...]
Graduate student positions at Nanyang Technological University
Graduate student positions positions are available in the area of medical engineering. Students with research interests at the interface of electrical engineering and biology are especially encouraged to apply. Topics include: o modeling of epileptic seizures (from abstract network models to detailed biophysical models); o neural implants for seizure suppression (from control/game theoretic analysis to [...]
International Summer School on Multimodal Approaches in Neuroscience
The 1st Summer School of the newly established International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication(IMPRS NeuroCom) will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. The aim of this summer school is to discuss multimodal approaches in modern neuroscience. Registration for the summer school is [...]
Scientists say for the first time they have understood someone’s thoughts by looking at what their brain is doing. The hippocampus is widely known to be integral to memory, but researchers say they now see just how images are stored and recalled in this part of the brain. Wellcome Trust scientists trained four participants to [...]
The Alice and Jack Ormut Ph.D. Program in computational neuroscience of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC) and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) at the Hebrew University is now accepting applications from foreign students. The mission of the Alice and Jack Ormut Ph.D. Program is to train students to [...]
Postdoctoral position in network modeling of the cerebellum
A postdoctoral position is available in the Computational Neuroscience Unit of Dr. Erik De Schutter at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology for large scale network simulations of the cerebellum. We have build an anatomically detailed 3D network model of cerebellar cortex with physiologically realistic neural spiking and synaptic properties. The postdoc will use [...]
Vision Neuroscience Positions at Brain Corporation
Computational Neuroscience summer course
June 18 – July 1, 2010, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Application Deadline: March 15, 2010 Arranged by Geoffrey Boynton, Gregory Horwitz, and Stefan Treue The course is offered every two years and gives 24 graduate students and postdocs switching into this field of research the chance for intensive interchange with a diverse faculty in an [...]
Computational & Cognitive Neurobiology sumer school at CSHL-Asia
July 11 – 24, 2010, CSHL-Asia, Suzhou, China Computational and Cognitive Neurobiology are playing an increasing important role in advancing our understanding of the neural basis of behavior. To foster this field in China and other Asian countries, and to help attract young talented students and postdocs to the field, we have developed a new [...]
PhD Position in Computational Neuroscience – Machine Learning
The group of Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) offers a PhD position for research on computational and theoretical approaches to unsupervised learning in vision. The research field is highly dynamic and rapidly expanding. It closely combines theoretical approaches with applications to artificial vision and intelligence, and advances [...]
Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuron Modeling
The Blue Brain Project, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, is an international research venture to reverse-engineer the brain and enable next-generation fundamental and medical research through simulation. BBP is now seeking for immediate hire a Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuron Modeling, for immediate hire, to strengthen the project’s computational neuroscience team and to prepare it for the [...]
Visiting students and scholars, Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Application deadline: 1st May 2010. The Berlin School of Mind and Brain is an international research school, located in the vibrant heart of Berlin. Founded in 2006 as part of Germany’s Excellence Initiative, it offers a unique three-year interdisciplinary doctoral program in English in the mind/brain sciences. Research within the School focuses on the interface [...]
PhD Fellowships, Bernstein Center Berlin
The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) and the Technical University of Berlin invite applications for several fellowships (3 yrs.) within its new Research Training Group “Sensory Computation in Neural Systems”. Doctoral candidates will develop computational methods for the study of sensory computations, focusing on time and dynamics, and apply these in experiments. To this [...]
Summer school: Visual Neuroscience, from spikes to awareness
Rauischholzhausen, Germany, August 29 – September 10, 2010. Application deadline is March 31, 2010. The European Summer School exposes young vision researchers—at the late pre-doctoral or early post-doctoral level—to the principal methods and seminal issues of contemporary visual neuroscience. The European Summer School is taught by leading researchers in neurobiology, neuropsychology, psychophysics, and theoretical neuroscience. [...]
Three PhD positions in Computational Neuroscience
Three PhD positions in Computational Neuroscience in the research unit of Prof. Sen Cheng at the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Our unit investigates the theoretical basis for learning and memory processes at the neuronal circuit level. A special emphasis is placed on the dynamics of the learning process, which largely has been neglected up [...]
Master of Science in Computational Biology
Nice Sophia Antipolis University (France) is launching a new Master of Science program in Computational Biology. The scientific goal of this program is to focus on the human being from different perspectives (understanding and modeling functional aspects or interpreting biomedical signals from various devices) and at different scales (from molecules to organs and the whole [...]
Henry Markram calls IBM’s cat-scaled brain simulation a hoax
Dr. Henry Markram, a leading brain researcher spearheading the “Blue Brain” simulation, posted his concerns on the IBM “Cat Brain” Simulation, titled “IBM’s claim is a HOAX” IBM’s claim is a HOAX This is a mega public relations stunt – a clear case of scientific deception of the public. These simulations do not even come [...]
IBM / DARPA SyNAPSE announce new brain simulation By the end of 2009, IBM has announced the development of a brain simulation (machine simulation of cognitive activities) that approximates the complexity of a cat brain. The paper “The Cat is Out of the Bag” was presented at the Supercomputing 2009 conference in Portland, Oregon, and [...]
Postdoctoral positions in systems neurophysiology and computational modeling at UCSF
Postdoctoral positions are currently available in the laboratory of Philip Sabes in the Keck Center for Integrative Neurobiology at UCSF. The laboratory uses a combination of primate cortical physiology, human psychophysics, and computational modeling to study how the brain flexibly and adaptively integrates information for movement control. The lab focus on the physiological mechanisms and [...]
2010 Summer Program in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, June 1 – August 13, 2010 Applications are invited for an intensive summer program of hands-on training to introduce undergraduate students to the principles and techniques of computational neuroscience. The summer program will be directed by Drs. Michael Kahana and Joshua Jacobs of the [...]
Post-doctoral Position in Computational Neuroscience at INRIA
Title: Bio-inspired image and video compression schemes The INRIA, Neuromathcomp Project Team is looking for highly motivated candidates to work in the field of computational neuroscience with a focus on information theory. Supervised by Pierre Kornprobst, INRIA Researcher This work is to provide strong basis to conceive novel bio-inspired video compression schemes based on realistic [...]
Postdoc positions in brain imaging signal analysis
Applications are invited fort wo postdoctoral positions in the project “Computational analysis of complex brain imaging data” in Helsinki, Finland. This is a joint project with Aapo Hyvarinen (Univ of Helsinki) and Riitta Hari (Aalto University, formerly called Helsinki Univ of Technology). The postdoctoral training consists of developing new models, methods, and paradigms for brain [...]
The 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2010 – will be held between May 27-30, 2010 in Porto Carras, Chalkidiki, Greece. The MEDICON conferences are international events of high scientific standards with long lasting tradition held every third year in one of the Mediterranean countries under the auspices of [...]
A 3 years fully-funded opening for a PhD position at the intersection of Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Systems Biology is available at the University of Rostock, Germany. The candidate will receive a full stipend in the graduate school DIEMOSIRIS (http://wwwmosi.informatik.uni-rostock.de/diemosiris), which focuses on regenerative systems in general, and the process of cell differentiation in particular. [...]
Postdoctoral Positions in Theoretical Neuroscience at the Hebrew University
Candidates for postdoctoral research in theoretical neuroscience are welcome at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Candidates must have advanced training in quantitative sciences (e.g., computational neuroscience, physics, applied math., computer science, and engineering) with preference to those with research experience in computational neuroscience. The postdoctoral fellows will [...]
International Neuroscience Master Program at EPFL
The EPFL, a top ranked university in the technical sciences, has a dynamic and strong life sciences department which hosts the Brain Mind Institute. The EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) is located in Lausanne, in the center of Europe, on the shores of the lake of Geneva in Switzerland. The master program track in [...]
OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. OWW provides a place for labs, individuals, and groups to organize their own information and collaborate with others easily and efficiently. In the process, we hope that OWW will not [...]
Undergraduate Training Opportunities in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
The Gulf Coast Consortium for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience is accepting applications, through February 15, for 12 summer 2010 undergraduate internships. The program runs June 1 through August 6, 2010 and includes * $4650 stipend plus $800 travel allowance * Free Housing in Rice University Graduate Apartments * 1 week of tutorials on Mathematical and [...]
Postdoc position in Computational Neuroscience
Applications are invited for a postdoc position in the Neuroinformatics Group of the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The position is funded by the EU-FP7 grant for the Collaborative Large-scale Integrating Project Self-Constructing Computing Systems (SECO – http://www.seco-project.eu/). Using a combined computational and experimental approach, the SECO project [...]
Postdoc position in Systems / Computational Neuroscience
A full-time postdoctoral position is available on a collaborative project in the Systems and Computational Neuroscience Laboratories of Drs. John Reynolds and Tatyana Sharpee at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The goal of the project is to use natural stimuli to understand high-level visual processing, and how it is modulated by attention. The ideal [...]
The Rudolf Magnus Institute in Utrecht, The Netherlands is looking for a highly motivated postdoc interested in neural signal processing for Brain Computer Interfacing. The Utrecht BCI group, led by Prof. dr. Nick Ramsey, is part of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the University Medical Center Utrecht and participates in the nationwide BrainGain [...]
Post-doc position in computational neuroscience
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Position in Theoretical / Computational Neuroscience in the Kreiman Lab at Children’s Hospital Harvard Medical School. The lab is interested in the neuronal circuits and mechanisms involved in visual object recognition. The lab is searching for an innovative, enthusiastic and quantitiative researcher with experience in quantitative work (Math/Physics/Computer Science/Engineering) [...]
By Simon R Schultz (2007), Scholarpedia, 2(6):2046 Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) generically means the dimensionless ratio of signal power to noise power. It has a long history of being used in neuroscience as a measure of the fidelity of signal transmission and detection by neurons and synapses. A common use of SNR is to compare the [...]
By Prachi Patel. Originally posted to IEEE’s Spectrum Researchers report prototype wireless neural interfaces Wireless brain-machine interfaces would be much more practical and could be implanted in several different areas of the brain to tap into more neurons. The key requirement for such a system is that it consume very little power to keep the [...]
PhD positions in Computational and Systems Neuroscience
The University of Pennsylvania offers state-of-the-art training opportunities for students interested in computational and systems approaches to neuroscience. Candidates admitted to either the Psychology or the Neuroscience graduate program have the opportunity to join laboratories whose research programs combine experimental and computational approaches in systems neuroscience. Tailored graduate coursework as well as colloquia and journal [...]
PhD-Positions in Neuroinformatics, Computational Neuroscience
Deadline for Application: December 15, 2009 The Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Program “EuroSPIN” (European Study Programme in Neuroinformatics) is inviting applications from students having a solid background in mathematics, physics, computer sciences, biochemistry or neuroscience (on a master level or equivalent), in all cases with computer science skills Documented interest in research like activities (e.g. [...]
Postdoctoral Position in Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics
NeuroML Standards and Tools for Multiscale Model Specification and Exchange Computational models based on detailed neuroanatomical and electrophysiological data have been used for many years as an aid for understanding of the function of the nervous system. NeuroML is an international, collaborative initiative to develop standards for describing models of neural systems. The NeuroML model [...]
Position Available: Scientific Hardware/Software Engineer
The Keck Center for Integrative Neurobiology and the Department of Physiology at UCSF are seeking an engineer or scientist to join a new multi-laboratory project to develop cross-species tools for the optical stimulation of neural circuits. Primary responsibilities will be the development and testing of hardware/software systems for multichannel optical stimulation in-vivo, helping to design [...]
Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Neuroscience
Postdoctoral fellow position (research associate) in the group of Mate Lengyel at the Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Closing date: 7 December 2009 http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Lengyel/Vacancies The group studies learning and memory from computational, algorithmic/representational and neurobiological viewpoints. Computationally and algorithmically, ideas are used from Bayesian approaches to statistical inference and [...]
UCSD Computational Neuroscience Graduate Training Program
Application deadline: December 1, 2009 The goal of the Computational Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSD is to train researchers who are equally at home measuring large-scale brain activity, analyzing the data with advanced computational techniques, and developing new models for brain development and function. Candidates from a wide range of backgrounds are invited to apply, [...]
3-year PhD in Computational Neuroscience at Cambridge University
The Computational and Biological Learning Lab (CBL) at the Department of Engineering uses engineering approaches to understand the brain and to develop artificial learning systems. Research in computational neuroscience covers learning and memory in perceptual, cognitive, and motor systems. PhD students in the group have the opportunity to pursue computational studies at the neuronal or [...]
Postdoctoral position at UCSD in neuronal modeling
This project is focused on data-driven development of mechanistic models of laminar neuronal cell populations aiming to establish connections between properties at the level of single neurons to the behavior of large neuronal populations. To this end, the project will reconstruct excitatory and inhibitory neuronal activity in the primary somatosensory cortex in response to sensory [...]
Advanced Scientific Programming in Python
a Winter School by the G-Node and University of Warsaw Scientists spend more and more time writing, maintaining, and debugging software. While techniques for doing this efficiently have evolved, only few scientists actually use them. As a result, instead of doing their research, they spend far too much time writing deficient code and reinventing the [...]
PhD position at ETH Zurich in vestibular neuroprosthesis project
The vestibular system is responsible for the body’s “sixth sense” – it detects (along with vision and proprioception) spatial orientation and maintains body equilibrium. If the vestibular system is damaged, patients may experience dizziness, vertigo, or inability to stand up in severe cases. The CLONS project is developing a sensory prosthesis for patients with vestibular [...]
Career Opportunities in Cognitive Computing
IBM has recently won Phase 1 of the DARPA SyNAPSE project that seeks to discover, demonstrate, and deliver algorithms of the brain via a combination of (computational) neuroscience, supercomputing, and nanotechnology. World-class expertise in required one or more of the following areas: computational neuroscience (spiking computation, synaptic plasticity, structural plasticity), reinforcement learning, nonlinear dynamical systems, [...]
The Departments of Biology and Physical Therapy at Northeastern University are seeking interdisciplinary applicants in Experimental or Computational Movement Neuroscience. All ranks will be considered (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor). Individuals working on neurophysiological, biomechanical and executive functions in the control of movement, rehabilitation and restoration of function, development, sensorimotor integration, muscle function and other areas related to [...]
Brain-Machine Interface Offers Hope to the Paralyzed
Originally posted to IEEE’s The Institute, 09 October 2009 by Kathy Kowalenko Codirector of the Center for Neuroengineering at Duke University Medical Center, in Durham, N.C., Nicolelis and his team are developing a real-time interface together with a full-body exoskeleton to be controlled by signals from a paraplegic’s brain. Nicolelis has assembled an international team [...]
Post-doctoral position in computational neuroscience
A postdoctoral position in computational neuroscience is available in Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) in Torino (Italy), to work on a research project in collaboration with Nicolas Brunel (Paris), Stefano Panzeri (Genova) and Nikos Logothetis (Tubingen). The goal of the project is to better understand the role of network oscillations in transmitting sensory information, through [...]
Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The new EDMOND AND LILY SAFRA CENTER FOR BRAIN SCIENCES (ELSC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is seeking candidates for faculty positions at all levels in Neuroscience starting July 1, 2010. The ELSC has openings for 15 new faculty positions [...]
Berlin School of Mind and Brain – Women’s Travel Awards
The Berlin School of Mind and Brain is an international research school, which was founded in 2006 as part of Germany’s Excellence Initiative. The School offers a unique three-year interdisciplinary doctoral program in English in the mind and brain sciences. Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Berlin School of Mind and Brain Web: www.mind-and-brain.de Email: admissions(at)mind-and-brain(dot)de As part [...]
Postdoctoral Position in Cerebellar Modeling
Postdoctoral position open in the area of modeling biological cerebellar processing in the Jaeger lab at Emory University. http://www.biology.emory.edu/research/Jaeger/ This position is funded under a CRCNS NIH grant and is placed in the framework of a collaborative approach determining how the deep cerebellar nuclei are integrating synaptic input in awake mice. Candidates should have a [...]
PhD position in Computational Neuroscience
Technische Universitaet Berlin, Department of EE and CS & Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin. The successful candidate is expected to study computational models of visual processing in relation to cognitive function, and will join ongoing collaborations with experimental groups within the Bernstein Network who work with animal models as well as with human subjects. [...]
Postdoc positions in Theoretical Neuroscience at RIKEN BSI
Postdoctoral positions are available for studying neural valuation and associated decision making in the laboratory of Dr. Hiro Nakahara (the Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience) at RIKEN Brain Science Institute. A major focus of the research for these positions is to develop theoretical and/or computational models for a normative understanding (e.g. reinforcement learning framework and [...]
University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering Senior Research Associate in Computational Neuroscience A position exists for a Senior Research Associate (equivalent of a senior postdoctoral fellow) to work on theories of spike timing-based memory in the hippocampus. The project is funded by the Wellcome Trust and will involve work in the group of Mate Lengyel [...]
CCNC 2009 – Call for fellowship applicants
4th CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE The CCNC organizing committee is pleased to announce the availability of a limited number of $500 fellowship awards to early-career computational cognitive neuroscience researchers and potential researchers. Eligible candidates should be undergraduates, graduate students, or post-docs. It is anticipated that approximately ten (10) stipends will be awarded. Criteria to [...]
Lectureship in Computational Intelligence
Applicants are welcome in any area of Computational Intelligence (including computational/theoretical neuroscience, neural networks, evolutionary computation, machine learning etc) to ‘Lecturer in Computing Science‘ post, University of Stirling, Scotland, U.K. Salary £36,533 – £43,622 p.a. As a part of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), a lectureship is available in Computing Science for [...]
PostDoc or PhD Position for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
A Post-Doc or PhD position is available at the Technical University of Chemnitz in the Department of Computer Science. The position is for three years, starting immediately. The research position is part of the research network “Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of conscious and unconscious visual perception” (http://www.uniulm.de/unbewusst/index.htm). The goal in our project is to elucidate the role [...]
Two Tenure Track Positions in Theoretical and Systems Neuroscience
The Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo, in conjunction with the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience (CTN), is seeking two Faculty at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in the area of Neuroscience. Applicants involved in the measurement and/or modeling of neural circuits and systems (systems neuroscience) are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants, both [...]
Research Associate Position at Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
This post is funded by BBSRC for 15 months. The post holder will join a newly established motor control group led by Dr Jörn Diedrichsen studying the behavioural, neural and computational foundations of human motor control, co-ordination and learning. The successful candidate will investigate the computational and neural principles that underlie the learning and control [...]
PhD and PostDoctoral positions in Tuebingen, Germany
Cortical Neurophysiology of Memory Laboratory at the Center for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) at the University of Tuebingen (Germany) is looking for a highly motivated individuals for a PhD and Post-Doctoral positions. The research group is part of the newly established interdisciplinary scientific environment (http://www.cin.uni-tuebingen.de). The candidates will be involved into cutting edge research on network [...]
Using Deep Brain Stimulation on the Mind: Handle with Care
Originally posted to Dana’s Cerebrum By Mahlon R. DeLong August 17, 2009 Deep brain stimulation has worked for many patients with Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders that have not responded to other treatments. However, its use as a therapy for psychiatric disorders, while promising, is not yet proven.
Postdoc-Phd positions in Integrative Experimental and Computational Neuroscience
A new Integrative Experimental and Computational Neuroscience Program in the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience at The University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, is seeking applicants for a Postdoctoral and Graduate Student positions. The program was established under the sponsorship of a $20M Polaris Award from The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. The faculty members [...]
A PhD student position is available in the Brain Dynamics group, at the Brain Sciences Institute in Melbourne (Australia) by early 2010. The main focus of proposed research will be the neurophysics of the mammalian electroencephalogram (EEG), in particular the mean-field modelling of electrocortical activity. The candidate can choose among a range of theoretical projects [...]
Postdoctoral Position: Neural Interface for Sensory-Enabled Prostheses
A postdoctoral position is available in the engineering laboratory of Dr. Ranu Jung in the Center for Adaptive Neural Systems, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. The position is supported by an NIH-funded Bioengineering Research Partnership grant for a project to interface prosthetic hands with amputees through [...]
Postdoctoral Position: Sensorimotor Integration in Advanced Prosthetic Systems
A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. James Abbas in the Center for Adaptive Neural Systems, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. The position is supported by an NIH-funded Bioengineering Research Partnership grant for a project to interface prosthetic hands with amputees through a [...]
22 Ph.D. positions From Neuroscience to NeuroInspired Computing
There are two openings for 22 PhD students for research in the “Marie Curie Initial Training Network FACETS-ITN: From Neuroscience to Neuro-Inspired Computing”. The network consists of 15 partners in 6 countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden and Switzerland). The positions to work on a Ph.D. are funded for up to three years and are [...]
Time Encoding and Decoding (TED) Toolbox
The Bionet Group at Columbia University has just released a Time Encoding and Decoding (TED) Toolbox for use by the research community. A gentle introduction to TED is available at http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/code/ted.html The software release includes Matlab, Python and CUDA implementations of various encoding and decoding circuits/architectures and algorithms. Single-input single-output and single-input multi-output (population) encoders/decoders [...]
EU Marie Curie Early Research Fellowship in Sensorimotor Neuroscience
The fellow will be involved in the design, execution and analysis of behavioural and brain imaging (fMRI) experiments on healthy human adults to investigate the brain’s use of sensory and motor information for state estimation during voluntary actions. The research will involve combining behavioural, brain imaging and MR-compatible robotics techniques to study the neural basis [...]
Postdoctoral position in Computational Brain Anatomy and Shape Analysis
Columbia University at the New York State Psychiatric Institute A postdoctoral position is open in the Division of Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology at Columbia University involving image processing of brain MRI data to extract anatomical structures, analyze their shapes, and construct a Bayesian framework for brain feature matching underlying a completely new version of the [...]
The Journal of Computational Neuroscience provides a forum for papers that fit the interface between computational and experimental work in the neurosciences, as well as papers that fit the interface between theory and experiments. Primarily, theoretical papers should deal with issues of obvious relevance to biological nervous systems. Experimental papers should have implications for the [...]
PhD and Post-doc positions, Weizmann Institute and Hebrew University
Topic: The control of the hyper-redundant flexible arm movements in the octopus. Starting date: Immediately Language requirement: English PhD students and postdocs are sought for research at the Weizmann institute and at the Hebrew University on the control of the hyper-redundant flexible arm movements in the octopus as a basis for the development of flexible [...]
Standards and Tools for Multiscale Model Specification and Exchange A postdoctoral position is available in the computational laboratory of Dr. Sharon Crook (http://math.asu.edu/~crook) at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona (http://www.asu.edu). The position is supported by the NIH-funded NeuroML Project (http://neuroml.org), an international, collaborative effort to create a model description language for computational neuroscience. In [...]
Postdoc position in computational neuroscience at the Neurosciences Institute
The Neurosciences Institute (http://www.nsi.edu) is seeking postdoctoral researchers in computational neuroscience. The successful candidate will be working with a team of researchers to create large scale spiking models of the mammalian nervous system controlling a robotic device. Candidates should have a background in neuroscience, previous modeling experience, and strong programming skills. Experience in any of [...]
PhD student or Postdoc position at the University of Zurich
Open position for PhD student or postdoc in systems neuroscience project involving sensory discrimination and decision making in rodents. Perceptual discriminations are among the most important decision making processes. From a neuroscience point of view, one of the most prominent questions is how the percept of a given stimulus is encoded in the brain and [...]
Graduate student and Postdoc positions in Brain Dynamics
﻿﻿﻿The Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience (http://ccbn.uleth.ca/) has established a new program in Systems and Computational Neuroscience approaches to studying Brain Dynamics, under the sponsorship of a $20M Polaris Award from The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. The faculty members of this program include Bruce McNaughton, David Euston, Artur Luczak, Masami Tatsuno and Aaron [...]
Post Doc/Group Leader Position for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
A postdoctoral / group leader position is available at the Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany) in the Department of Computer Science. The position is initially for three years, starting in October 2009 (or soon thereafter), but with a possibility of renewing. The canditate should have a PhD and prior experience in developing neurocomputational systems, particularly [...]
The following set of tutorials focus on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms. These include classification algorithms such as decision trees, neural nets, Bayesian classifiers, Support Vector Machines and cased-based (aka non-parametric) learning. [...]
Postdoc positions in Neurophysiology, Computation – Penn Retina Group
Postdoctoral and/or laboratory assistant postions are open in the Retina Group at the University of Pennsylvania to study synaptic physiology and information-processing of neural circuits in mammalian retina. Facilities are available for recording from retinal slices or from neurons in the intact retina while presenting sophisticated visual stimuli. Results from these approaches, together with synaptic [...]
Neurocomputing publishes articles describing recent fundamental contributions in the field of neurocomputing. Neurocomputing theory, practice and applications are the essential topics being covered. Neurocomputing welcomes theoretical contributions aimed at winning further understanding of neural networks and learning systems, including, but not restricted to, architectures, learning methods, analysis of network dynamics, theories of learning, self-organization, biological [...]
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
The IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering is one of the leading research journals in the field of neural systems and rehabilitation engineering (NSRE) and is widely disseminated throughout the world. Original research papers covering the broad spectrum of theoretical and applied biophysics are published following the successful completion of a comprehensive peer [...]
The Annual Report provides an overview of SfN accomplishments, efforts and activities for FY2008. The report includes information about SfN’s annual meeting, The Journal of Neuroscience, membership, chapters, professional development, outreach, advocacy and finances, as well as features exploring the intersection of neuroscience with technology, environment and law. Download the entire FY2008 Annual Report (PDF, [...]
Society for Neuroscience provides access to a sample of high impact classic papers addressing a range of neuroscience topics. To suggest a classic paper, e-mail jn(at)sfn(dot)org. Topics are: * Action potentials * Arousal * Attention * Electroencephalography * Emotion * Frontal lobe function * Hormones * Language * Learning and memory * Sprouting * Stress [...]
Expert in Data Handling in Neuroinfomatics
PDC is recruiting a highly skilled expert in wide area data handling to support the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) in enhancing their usage of PDC’s computational and storage resources. PDC is the leading Swedish supercomputing center hosted by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. It operates state-of-the-art computational and storage resources for [...]
Postdoctoral Fellowship in neural engineering at CEA, Grenoble, France
Applicants are invited for a postdoctoral position in the field of neural engineering with the focus on Brain Computer Interface (BCI). The successful applicant will perform research in the fields of signal processing, adaptive modeling, machine learning and fast calculations for real time applications in the frame of the project Clinatec. The particular goal of [...]
BioSystems encourages experimental, computational, and theoretical articles that link biology, evolutionary thinking, and the information processing sciences. The link areas form a circle that encompasses the fundamental nature of biological information processing, computational modeling of complex biological systems, evolutionary models of computation, the application of biological principles to the design of novel computing systems, and [...]
Postdoctoral Position in computational systems neuroscience
George Mason University, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research position available immediately to contribute to ongoing cutting-edge research in computational systems biology / neuroscience funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The initial focus is on the signaling pathways underlying [...]
NCF competition for neuron modeling – spike timing prediction
The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility INCF has launched an international competition for predicting neural activity with a submission deadline of August 25. The data for the competition is already available at http://www.incf.org/community/competitions/spike-time-prediction/2009 Rather attractive awards will be given to the winners of the competition during the INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics in Pilsen, near Prague, http://www.neuroinformatics2009.org/ [...]
Neural Computation disseminates important, multidisciplinary research in a field that attracts psychologists, physicists, computer scientists, neuroscientists, and artificial intelligence investigators, among others. For researchers looking at the scientific and engineering challenges of understanding the brain and building computers, neural computation highlights common problems and techniques in modeling the brain, and in the design and construction [...]
Artificial simulator of the human nervous system to do research into diseases and test new medicines
Scientists of the University of Granada have generated a computer which permits to reproduce any part of the body’s nervous system, such as the retina, the cerebellum, the hearing centres or the nervous centres This is free and open software, so-called EDLUT, which can be freely downloaded through the Internet. Originally posted at UGR news [...]
PhD positions in Neuroengineering, Robotics and Navigation, University of Lübeck, Germany
The Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at the University of Lübeck invites applications for 3-year PhD scholarships in the fields of Brain Imaging, Robotics, Brain Plasticity, Navigation Methods, Neuroanatomy, Human-Computer Interfacing, Minimal Invasive Interventions. Application deadline: June 30, 2009. Project titles: 1.1 – Diffusion Tensor methods 1.2 – Correction of Susceptibility [...]
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine covers computing methodology and software systems derived from computing science for implementation in all aspects of biomedical research and medical practice. To encourage the development of formal computing methods, and their application in biomedical research and medical practice, by illustration of fundamental principles in biomedical informatics research; to stimulate [...]
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Basic and applied papers dealing with biomedical engineering and applied biophysics. Papers range from practical/clinical applications through experimental science and technological development toformalized mathematical theory. Indexed in Pubmed® and Medline®, products of the United States National Laboratory of Medicine. Impact factor: See the Scientific Journals Table ISSN: 0018-9294 Issues per year: 12 YOU MAY VISIT [...]
October 11-16, 2009 Registration deadline: June 30, 2009 Aim of the course The course is intended to provide advanced Diploma/Masters and PhD students, as well as young researchers from the neurosciences with approaches for the analysis of electrophysiological data and the theoretical concepts behind them. The course includes various topics such as * Neuron models [...]
SigTool: A MATLAB-based environment for sharing laboratory-developed software to analyze biological signals
Developed to run within MATLAB, sigTOOL provides a programming and analysis environment for processing neuroscience data. A graphical-user interface to this environment provides the end-user with a self-contained application for waveform and spike-train analysis. User-written extensions to this application can be added to the interface on-the-fly without the need to modify any of the existing [...]
Journal of Neuroscience Methods publishes papers dealing with new methods or significant developments of recognised methods, used to investigate the organisation and fine structure, biochemistry, molecular biology, histo and cytochemistry, physiology, biophysics and pharmacology of receptors, neurones, synapses, and glial cells; in the nervous system of man, vertebrates and invertebrates – or applicable to the [...]
BUTIFtoolbox is used to extract transient oscillatory dynamics from signals. Until now, it was succesfully applied to LFP (Local Field Potentials) and EEG (Electroencephalographic) signals. Applications to other fields could be researched.
BMC Neuroscience is an online journal publishing research articles after full peer review. All articles are published, without barriers to access, immediately upon acceptance. BMC Neuroscience is an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the nervous system, including molecular, cellular, developmental and animal model studies, as well as cognitive and [...]
Neural Processing Letters is an international journal publishing research results and innovative ideas in all fields of artificial neural networks. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit letters concerning any aspect of the Artificial Neural Networks field including, but not restricted to, theoretical developments, biological models, new formal modes, learning, applications, software and hardware developments, and [...]
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, MBEC, is the official journal of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering, IFMBE. MBEC covers the entire spectrum of biomedical and clinical engineering. The journal aims to present exciting and vital experimental and theoretical developments in biomedical science and technology and to report on advances in computer-based [...]
Postdoctoral Position Available in Auditory Modeling
A postdoctoral position is available in computational modeling of nonlinear response properties in the auditory system. The project deals with the development of an automated system to characterize complex neuronal responses by generating stimuli adaptively while recording from the auditory cortex or the inferior colliculus of awake marmoset monkeys. Depending on interest and preparation, a [...]
BBCI Workshop 2009 on Advances in Neurotechnology
July 8-10, Berlin, Germany http://bbci.agilemeetings.com ************************************************************************ Important Dates =============== Submission Date: 2009-06-01 Notification of Acceptance: 2009-06-11 Workshop Date: 2009-07-08 – 2009-07-10 Organization ============ Bernstein Focus: Neurotechnology (BFNT-B) in cooperation with the Bernstein Center for Computation Neuroscience Berlin (BCCN-B) and the Berlin Institute of Technology (TUB) Charité – University Medicine Berlin Klaus-Robert Mueller, TUB and BFNT-B [...]
Eighteenth Annual International Computational Neuroscience Conference
July 18 – July 23, 2009 Berlin, Germany http://www.cnsorg.org CNS*2009 will be held in Berlin, Germany July 18-23, 2009. CNS*2009 will consist of three days of main meeting (Sunday July 19th-Tuesday July 21st), preceded by a day of tutorials on July 18th and followed by two days of workshops and a Neuroinformatics mini-symposium on July [...]
JCN: Special issue on Methods of Information Theory in Neuroscience Research
Journal of Computational Neuroscience Submission deadline: December 15st, 2009 Edited by Alexander G. Dimitrov, Aurel A. Lazar and Jonathan D. Victor Methods originally developed in Information Theory have found wide applicability in computational neuroscience. Beyond these original methods, novel tools and approaches have been developed that are driven by problems arising in neuroscience. A number [...]
Postdoc position in computational neurosciences
Adaptive processing of time intervals in the brain A 18 month postdoctoral position in computational neurosciences is available at the Institute of movement Sciences and Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences in Marseille, France. Accurate processing of time intervals is necessary for precise sensori-motor control. Time intervals from tenths of milliseconds to approximately 1-2 seconds are to [...]
Postdoctoral Position in computational neuroscience of nicotine-dopamine interactions
A postdoctoral position is available in the Group for Neural Theory, at the ENS in Paris/France to develop computational models of nicotine addiction in the brain. The candidate will participate in a project in which the interaction between nicotine and dopamine pathways are studied on the level of receptor dynamics and microcircuit behavior in the [...]
International Conference on Machine Learning Student Funding programs
ICML 2009, the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning, is pleased to announce two special programs for students. 1) Student Scholarship Program: Students are invited to submit applications to the Scholarship Program. This program enables students to participate in the conference and to receive feedback on their work from senior researchers in machine learning. Students [...]
PhD Position in Neurocybernetics at University of Osnabrueck
The research group for Neurocybernetics (Prof. Dr. Frank Pasemann) at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University Osnabrück has a vacancy for the position of a Researcher (Diploma/Master level) (Salary level according to E 13 TV-L 50%) to be filled at earliest practicable date. The position is associated with the EU funded Project “Artificial Language Evolution [...]
A postdoctoral position is available at the Brain Architecture Center (http://brancusi.usc.edu/bkms), in the Swanson group at USC. The candidate will be directly responsible for completing the axonal projections matrix of the rat limbic system and mining the inserted data, and will actively participate in developing the BAMS Ontology. The ideal candidate will have a doctoral [...]
Postdoc Position in Machine Learning – Modelling of Neural Systems
A fully funded Postdoctoral Research Position in Machine Learning / Mathematical Modelling of Neural Systems is open in the research group of Herbert Jaeger (http://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/hjaeger) at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany (http://www.jacobs-university.de). The position is created in the context of the international project “Self-organized Recurrent Neural Learning for Language Processing (ORGANIC)”, funded by the European Commission [...]
Postdoc position in computational and systems neuroscience
The Computational Physiology Laboratory (CPL) at Cornell University is seeking a full-time postdoctoral research scholar interested in theoretical models of sensory processing, with emphases on olfactory systems, perceptual learning, and neuromodulation. The CPL is an interdisciplinary environment in which theoretical models are developed to integrate experimental approaches ranging from cellular and in vivo electrophysiology to [...]
Postdoctoral position in network/LFP modeling at Norwegian University of Life Sciences
A full-time limited-term 3-year position as postdoctoral researcher (code 1352) is available in the Computational Neuroscience group at the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) located 30 km south of Oslo. A postdoctoral researcher will work on modeling of dynamics of cortical neuronal networks and/or the extracellular [...]
The NEURON Simulation Environment Saturday, June 20, through Wednesday, June 24, 2009 The Institute for Neural Computation at the University of California, San Diego, CA Organizers: N.T. Carnevale and M.L. Hines Description: This intensive hands-on course covers the design, construction, and use of models in the NEURON simulation environment. It is intended primarily for those [...]
International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Research on the biological basis of mind and behavior Call for Applications/2009 Applications from independent thinkers with curiosity, creativity and drive from all backgrounds are sought to join the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), outside Lisbon, Portugal. Successful applicants will demonstrate ability to tackle great intellectual challenges, to learn [...]
Research positions in computational neuroscience
Applications are invited for research positions in the Neuroinformatics Group of the Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, VU University Amsterdam. *** modeling neurite outgrowth and network formation *** The positions are funded by the EU-FP7 grant for the Collaborative Large-scale Integrating Project Self-Constructing Computing Systems (SECO). Using a combined computational and experimental approach, the SECO project [...]
Doctoral/Postdoctoral position within an Emmy-Noether Research Group in Computational Neuroscience in Cologne
Applications are invited for a full time research position (Bat IIa/E13) in Computational Neuroscience and Neuromechanical Modeling at the Zoological Institute, University of Cologne, Germany. Within a newly founded Emmy-Noether Research Group a doctoral/postdoctoral research position is available for a motivated researcher who is experienced in the fields of computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamical systems, optimization [...]
Single-Neuron Modeling Competition, 2009
The Quantitative Single-Neuron Modeling Competition offers a coherent framework to compare neuronal models and fitting methods. http://www.incf.org/community/competitions/spike-time-prediction/2009 - The INCF Prize (10 000 CHF) - The FACETS Award (500 CHF) Important Dates - Submissions via the website will open June 25, 2009. - The submission deadline is August 25, 2009. - The results will be [...]
postdoctoral position electrophysiology/computational neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. A postdoctoral position in electrophysiology/computational neuroscience is available at Baylor College of Medicine, in the laboratory of Fabrizio Gabbiani. The lab is located in the Texas Medical Center (TMC), close to many of Houston’s cultural and outdoor amenities. For further information about Houston and the TMC [...]
Ph.D. Program in Computational Neuroscience
The Alice and Jack Ormut Ph.D. Program in computational neuroscience of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC) at the Hebrew University is now accepting applications from foreign students. The mission of the Alice and Jack Ormut Ph.D. Program at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC) is to train students to address computation and [...]
Three positions in neuroinformatics at LMU Munich
The German Neuroinformatics Node G-Node (www.g-node.org) has been established to facilitate the interaction and collaboration between experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, both nationally and internationally. G-Node is located at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, is part of the Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience (www.nncn.de), and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Science (BMBF). G-Node focuses on [...]
PhD Position in complex systems and brain sciences available
Center for Complex Systems & Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University. Applications are currently being accepted for interdisciplinary PhD training under the joint mentorship of Drs. Steven Bressler (http://www.ccs.fau.edu/~bressler) and Viktor Jirsa (http://www.ism.univmed.fr:16080/spip.php?rubrique35&lang=en). The program of training will take a theoretical approach to the study of neural and cognitive function. The position will focus on understanding [...]
Post-doctoral position at Boston University, Center for Memory and Brain
A full-time postdoctoral position is available in the Center for Memory and Brain, Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience at Boston University. The post-doctoral fellow will develop compartmental biophysical simulations of entorhinal, subicular and hippocampal neurons and circuits involved in encoding and retrieval of sequences for memory guided behavior. The post-doctoral fellow will join [...]
PhD and Post-doc Positions in Theoretical Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany
PhD student and post-doc positions available in the group ‘Modelling of dynamic perception and action‘ at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI-CBS), in Leipzig, Germany. The goal of the group is to develop models for brain mechanisms of human perception and action using dynamic systems theory and Bayesian recognition algorithms. [...]
Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience 2009
3-28 August 2009, Freiburg, Germany. The Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (ACCN) is for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are interested in learning the essentials of the field. SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS: * Nicolas Brunel (CNRS & Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France) * John Rinzel (New York University, New York, USA) * Peter Latham (Gatsby [...]
NeuroConstruct is a software for developing biologically realistic 3D neural network. It has been developed in the Silver Lab in the Department of Physiology at UCL. NeuroConstruct has been designed to simplify development of complex networks of biologically realistic neurons, i.e. models incorporating dendritic morphologies and realistic cell membrane conductances. It is implemented in Java [...]
C++ library allows large scale neuronal network simulators to exchange data during runtime
MUSIC allows spike events and continuous time series to be communicated between applications in a cluster computer. The typical usage cases are connecting models developed for different simulators and connecting a parallel simulator to a post-processing tool. You may find more information here
2009 NSF/CSHL Computational Cell Biology Course
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, June 26 – July 16 Applications by March 15 Computational cell biology is the field of study that applied the mathematics of dynamical systems together with computer simulation techniques to the study of cellular processes. The field encompassed several topics that have been studied long enough to be well established in [...]
PyMVPA is a Python module intended to ease multivariate pattern classification analyses of large datasets. In the neuroimaging contexts such analysis techniques are also known as decoding or MVPA analysis. http://www.pymvpa.org PyMVPA: * provides high-level abstraction of typical processing steps and a number of implementations of some popular statistical learning algorithms, such as - classifiers: [...]
Postdoc position available at the Neurocybernetic team, Cergy-Pontoise, France
A post-doctoral position is available for 1 year at the Neurocybernetic team, Cergy-Pontoise, France. This position is funded by the Feelix Growing European project, aiming at modeling and understanding the role of emotional mechanisms in the communication and learning of autonomous robots. Started in january 2007, our team has already developed and tested Neural Networks [...]
Postdoctoral position in Compartmental Neuron Modeling
A full-time limited-term 3-year position as postdoctoral researcher (code 1352) is available in the Computational Neuroscience group at the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) located 30 km south of Oslo. The postdoc researcher will develop compartmental models for neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) based [...]
Complex Systems and Social Simulations Summer School
Complex systems and social simulations summer school 2009 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, JULY 13 – 24, 2009. Application deadline: 5 March, 2009 http://www.sun.ceu.hu/complex Course Directors: Laszlo Gulyas, Collegium Budapest / ELTE, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Hungary Gyorgy Kampis, Collegium Budapest, Focus Group on the Philosophy of Complexity / ELTE, Department of [...]
PhD Student or Postdoc in Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision
Several open positions are available for a PhD Student or Postdoc in Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision Institute for Neuroinformatics, Bochum, in the group of Prof. Dr. Laurenz Wiskott Institute: Institute for Neurocomputing Ruhr-University Bochum Universitaetsstr. 150 D-44801 Bochum / Germany. The Institute for Neurocomputing is a central research institute at the Ruhr-University [...]
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Neuroscience
Salary: £29,704 to £35,469 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience Start date: 01 May 2009 (flexible by agreement) End date: 30 April 2012 (3 years fixed-term from start date) Closing date for applications: 07 March 2009 A full-time post-doctoral position is available as part of a new multidisciplinary research group within the Department of [...]
Post-doc position, King’s College London
A post-doctoral researcher is required to develop a biologically inspired neural network model that will be used to explore neural mechanisms underlying cognitive and behavioural development. The research will involve extending an existing hierarchical neural network in order to simulate the learning of visual-spatial representations in the dorsal pathway. The model will be used to [...]
BCCN Master and PhD Program Computational Neuroscience
The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, located in Berlin, Germany, welcomes applications for the International Graduate Programs in Computational Neuroscience. Deadline: 15 March 2009. The Bernstein Center offers a combined International Master and Doctoral Program in Computational Neuroscience with the goal of training young scientists that will be competent in both computational and experimental neuroscience [...]
PhD Position in Neurobotics at LNRS, Paris 5
A 3-year PhD student position in Neurobotics (Computational Neuroscience) is open at LNRS/CNRS UMR7060, University Paris Descartes starting from January 2009, in the framework of a French national research project (ABILIS / ANR-08-CORD-001-05) entitled “Bio-inspired approaches for intelligent object handling and gripping“. The project is based on the conception and realization of a 5-finger artificial [...]
Postdoctoral position at University of Plymouth, modelling of anatomy and electrophysiology of the tadpole spinal cord
University of Plymouth, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience A postdoctoral Research Assistant is required for a 3 year BBSRC funded project in the Research Group of Prof Roman Borisyuk, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Plymouth, UK. The appointed person should have education at PhD level in computer science (or [...]
A simulator-independent language for describing biologically detailed neuronal and network models. NeuroML is a model description language which allows specification of components of biologically detailed neuronal models at many levels (e.g. ion channels, synaptic mechanisms, cells, networks). Examples of NeuroML files specifying each of these are available on the website. There are currently mappings available [...]
An enhanced version of nev2lkit: precompiled binaries available
Precompiled binaries are available for the following platforms: o Mac OS X version 10.5 “Leopard” (Packed with Qt & Qwt libraries) o Linux Ubuntu (x86) version 8.10 (Qt & Qwt packed seperately as an option) Binaries are available for download in nev2lkit’s enhanced version project page. Win32 binaries are not provided due to lack of [...]
The 2009 Progress Report on Brain Research
Published annually, the Progress Report describes the top findings in brain research during the previous year as selected by executive members of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. The 2009 report features in-depth articles on substance abuse, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, schizophrenia, brain-machine interface, and post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as a roundup chapter on other [...]
Graduate – Undergraduate Training Opportunities in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience in the Houston area
The gulf coast consortium in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (GCC-TCN) is a joint research/ training program of six Houston area Universities and Medical Schools. These include: Baylor College of Medicine, University of Houston, UTMB, UT Health Science Center, UT MD Anderson, and Rice University. The GCC-TCN now offers training opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students [...]
Post-doc positions in theoretical neuroscience
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 [...]
PI appointments in Computational Biology
Computational Systems Biology Centre at Fudan University plans to make 3-5 PI appointments in Computational Biology at the beginning of the 2009-10 academic year. Depending on a candidate’s experiences, the rank is open and salary is negotiable. Applicants using computational or mathematical models and/or data analyzing approaches are encouraged to apply. All areas in addressing [...]
Graduate Studies in Computational Neuroscience at UTSA
The University of Texas – San Antonio offers graduate students interested in computational studies of the nervous system a wide range of research options within its rapidly expanding Ph.D. program in Neurobiology. The graduate program is also supported by the Neuroscience Institute at UTSA, and is affiliated with the San Antonio Neuroscience Alliance linking together [...]
Scientific collaborator for development of neural network model descriptive languages
The INCF has launched an international initiative to develop a xml based descriptive language for integrate-and-fire neural network modeling, led by Prof. E. De Schutter. To support this effort the Belgian National Neuroinformatics Node at the University of Antwerp is recruiting a scientific collaborator to coordinate the work of the INCF task force, contribute to [...]
Research Associate Position in Brain-Computer Interfacing and Assistive Technologies
Reference No.: J08/318/W The Intelligent Systems Research Centre at the University of Ulster, Magee Campus, N. Ireland is looking for a suitably qualified researcher to conduct research in the area of brain-computer interfacing. The applicant should have a degree in Electronic Engineering, Bio-medical Engineering, Computing Science, or a closely related discipline, or a higher degree [...]
PhD position in Synapse protein network modelling, Amsterdam
The Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research in Amsterdam (CNCR) and the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) are seeking applications for 1 PhD-student (computational neuroscience/systems biology) fixed term, each 1+3 years Systems Biology of the Synapse Synapses are the fundamental processing elements that form the basis for the unsurpassed computational power of our brain. [...]
Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2009
OKINAWA COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE COURSE 2009 Methods, Neurons, Networks and Behaviors June 14 – July 3, 2009. Okinawa, Japan http://www.irp.oist.jp/ocnc/2009 The aim of the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course is to provide opportunities for young researchers with theoretical backgrounds to learn the latest advances in neuroscience, and for those with experimental backgrounds to have hands-on experience in [...]
16 PhD scholarships for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences, Graduate School Luebeck
The Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, and the German Government within the German university excellence program) at the University of Luebeck is now offering Ph.D. scholarships for the following 16 projects: Brach I: Neuroengineering, Robotics and Navigation I 1b – Correction of Susceptibility caused Distortions in [...]
PhD- Postdoc Positions in Neurotechnology in Freiburg, Germany
11 PhD and 5 postdoctoral fellowships are available for candidates interested in research on neurotechnology, neuroprosthetics, computational neuroscience, data analysis and modeling, translational neuroscience and neurosurgery, neural engineering and neurology. Neurotechnology is a rapidly growing field of research, thriving to repair, replace or support physical functions affected by nervous system diseases by technical means. At [...]
Open position in scientific coordination / management, Bernstein Network, Germany
The Bernstein Coordination Site of the National Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience (NNCN) is looking for a Junior Scientist in Scientific Coordination / Management. (full time, ranked according to salary level TV-L E13 of the German public employee system) The Bernstein Network currently consists of about 180 research groups at 20 locations all over Germany, performing [...]
PostDoc position in neural coding and computation for visual perception
Starting date: Flexible (2009) A postdoctoral position is available to work in collaboration with Rufin VanRullen at the CerCo in Toulouse, France. The team investigates temporal aspects of visual perception, attention and awareness, using a combination of psychophysical, neuro-imaging (EEG, fMRI, TMS) and computational tools. This position is focused on computer modeling and simulations: programming [...]
Postdoctoral Research Position in Machine Learning – Mathematical Modelling of Neural Systems
A fully funded Postdoctoral Research Position in Machine Learning / Mathematical Modelling of Neural Systems is open in the research group of Herbert Jaeger (http://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/hjaeger) at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany (http://www.jacobs-university.de). The position is created in the context of the integrated project “Self-organized Recurrent Neural Learning for Language Processing (ORGANIC), funded by the European Commission [...]
U. Ottawa Computational Neuroscience Summer School
3rd Computational Neuroscience summer school, Center for Neural Dynamics, University of Ottawa. June 7-20, 2009 The 3rd summer School in Computational Neuroscience will be held from Sunday June 7, 2009 until Saturday June 20, 2009 inclusively. It is organized by the Center for Neural Dynamics at the University of Ottawa. The highly pedagogical course is [...]
Graduate training at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition offers an interdisciplinary doctoral training program operated jointly with eleven affiliated PhD programs at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. The Center also offers its own PhD Program in Neural Computation. Detailed information about these programs is available at http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu The Center is dedicated to [...]
Graduate School Luebeck: PhD Scholarships for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences
The Graduate School of Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, and the German Government within the German university excellence program) at the University of Luebeck is now offering Ph.D. scholarships for the following 16 projects: Brach I: Neuroengineering, Robotics and Navigation I 1b – Correction of Susceptibility caused Distortions in [...]
The Mathematics department at the University of California Davis is accepting applications for a postdoctoral position in Mathematical Biology. The position will involve research, teaching, and active participation in the Math Biology group. Preference will be given to applicants with mathematical/biological research interests that are compatible with those of the faculty. The initial appointment will [...]
Applications are invited for two positions of post-doctoral research fellow for two and three years between 2009-2011 in the group led by Dr. Mikko Vähäsöyrinki and prof. Matti Weckström, Department of Physical Sciences and Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland. The positions are funded by the Academy of Finland and Sigrid Juselius Foundation; web-site: http://cc.oulu.fi/~mtw/group.html [...]
[Comp-neuro] Postdoctoral and PhD student positions in Neurophysics
The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen invites applications for Postdoctoral and PhD student positions in Neurophysics Research will experimentally probe and control the dynamics of living neural networks using innovative optical stimulation methods and will be part of an integrated project of the Max Planck Institutes for Dynamics and Self-Organization, for Experimental Medicine, and [...]
Post-doctoral position in computational olfaction at INRA Versailles or LORIA Nancy, France
A full-time postdoctoral position in computational neuroscience is available for studying the role of oscillatory synchronization in olfactory systems. The aim of the project is to understand the mechanisms of odour coding by means of a multidisciplinary approach combining models and experiments. The candidate will have to interact with other researchers in a mixed team [...]
PhD position: (respiratory neural network), Massey University, New Zealand
Scholarship for a PhD Student (Massey University, Auckland) A PhD student is sought for a research project that aims at understanding the complex behaviour of the respiratory neural network by using recently developed numerical methods, called “equation free” (EF) techniques. The student will work with Drs Alona Ben-Tal and Carlo Laing at the Institute of [...]
UCSD Computational Neurobiolology Gradaute Training Program
Neurosciences Graduate Training Program – University of California, San Diego. Deadline: December 1, 2008 http://neurograd.ucsd.edu/doctoral/cnspec.html http://compneuro.salk.edu/ The goal of the Computational Neurobiology Graduate Program at UCSD is to train researchers who are equally at home measuring large-scale brain activity, analyzing the data with advanced computational techniques, and developing new models for brain development and function. [...]
Ph.D. Program in Neural Computation (PNC) at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh
The Ph.D. Program in Neural Computation (PNC) at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh is now accepting applications. Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, recently created a Ph.D. program in computational neuroscience called the Program in Neural Computation (PNC). This program, now in its third year, is seeking qualified [...]
New Brain-Machine Interface Reactivates Monkey’s Paralyzed Muscles
A monkey learned to use the output of just one brain cell to move its wrist. Published October 2008, IEEE Spectrum Online, Photo: James Martin/Getty Images 20 October 2008—For years, doctors have treated patients suffering from life-threatening heart blockages by adding new blood vessels that reroute blood around arterial traffic snarls. Researchers have been working [...]
Computational neuroscience Ph.D. position at GSU
Ph.D. position in computational neuroscience at Georgia State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Atlanta. Earliest starting date: January 2009. A new Ph.D. position in computational modeling and applied mathematics is being funded by the NSF through the Emerging Models and Technologies program (www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08517/nsf08517.htm), as a grant awarded in the area of Biological Systems Science [...]
Multiscale Object-Oriented Simulation Environment
MOOSE is the Multiscale Object-Oriented Simulation Environment. It is the base and numerical core for large, detailed simulations including Computational Neuroscience and Systems Biology. It is substantially backward compatible with GENESIS, and has scripting in the GENESIS script language and in Python. MOOSE spans the range from single molecules to subcellular networks, from single cells [...]
Postdoctoral and PhD student positions in Martinez-Conde Lab
1 Postdoctoral and 1 PhD student positions are available to study the perceptual, cognitive and physiological effects of fixational eye movements. The experiments will directly follow from the line of research featured as the Cover Story of Scientific American in August 2007. See lab’s website for other examples of recent publications on this topic. The [...]
Three Lectureship posts in Neurotechnology
Imperial College is seeking to make three appointments at the interface between neuroscience and engineering. Two of these appointments will be joint lectureships between the Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE). The third appointment will be a joint lectureship between the Departments of Bioengineering and Computing. Applicants should have a strong record [...]
Wellcome-funded postdoctoral fellowship in computational neuroscience at the University of Nottingham, UK
Applications are invited for a Wellcome Trust-funded postdoctoral fellowship in computational neuroscience in the Nottingham Visual Neuroscience group. The project will examine the neural mechanisms of mid-level vision, as part of a broader multi-disciplinary initiative. The project is led by Dr. Jonathan Peirce in the School of Psychology and Prof Stephen Coombes in the School [...]
Postdoc position in computational neuroscience
A postdoc position is now available in the lab of Geoff Goodhill (http://cns.qbi.uq.edu.au) at the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. The position is funded by a 3-year HFSP grant entitled “Self-organized wiring of the cerebral cortex through thalamocortical growth cones: an integrated approach”. Collaborators on the grant are Ole Paulsen (Oxford, UK), [...]
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position (minimum 2 years) in the laboratory of Dr. Wei Ji Ma (http://neuro.bcm.edu/malab) in the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. The long-range goal of our research is to understand the representation and processing of uncertainty in the human brain, both at the behavioral and [...]
Postdoctoral position in computational neuroscience
A full-time postdoctoral position in computational neuroscience is available immediately at the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology and the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside. Research in our laboratory focuses on understanding cellular and network mechanisms underlying normal and paroxysmal oscillations in the brain and the role of neuronal [...]
NeuroMAX is a MATLAB-based software toolbox for the analysis of spike train data. NeuroMAX creates a chain of powerful analysis tools that meet your specific research goals. This tool chain, or Workspace, can be any combination of packaged NeuroMAX tools and your own custom MATLAB-based tools. NeuroMAX tools are grouped into four toolboxes: Spike Detection, [...]
The Institute of Neuroinformatics at UZH-ETH Zurich announces an opening for a PhD position. The mission of the Institute is to discover the key principles by which brains work and to implement these in artificial systems that interact intelligently with the real world. The aim of this project is to develop a real-time active vision [...]
Extracellular recordings of spontaneous nerve activity is a common practice for a number of electrophysiological experiments providing valuable information concerning peripheral and central nervous system physiology of vertebrates and invertebrates. Extracellular electrodes record voltage potentials representing the activity of an unknown number of activated axons which may serve different functions. It is generally assumed that [...]
PhD position in Computational Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen
The successful candidate has a strong background in physics and/or mathematics, is competent in applying numerical methods, and shows some grasp of, and great interest in, computational neuroscience. The main tasks of this research project involve theoretical calculations, computer simulations and experimental data analyses, using MATLAB. Specific methods and relevant background knowledge will be taught [...]
Postdoc positions in high dimensional data analysis for olfactory coding
Two postdoctoral positions are available in the lab of Nathan Urban at Carnegie Mellon University to work as part of a DARPA-funded project (REALNOSE http://www.darpa.mil/dso/solicitations/baa07-21mod11.htm) on analysis of data from arrays of biologically-based chemical sensors. This position is part of a large multi-investigator project involving collaboration with biologists, engineers and computer scientists at several institutions. [...]
Junior Research Groups for Systems Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurorobotics – Medical Robotics
Junior Research Groups for Cognitive Neuroscience and Systems Neuroscience at the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) The Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) is a newly established interdisciplinary institution at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen funded by the German Excellence Initiative program. The CIN strives to deepen our understanding of how the [...]
Postdoc position, neural mass modeling of epileptic discharges
A new postdoc position is available at INRIA (Odyssée project-team, Sophia Antipolis) and INSERM (U751, Marseille). Topic: Investigation of the fluctuations of neuronal activity during epileptic discharges and comparison with the states of a neural mass model. Framework: The project takes place within a collaboration between INRIA and INSERM on models for the interpretation of [...]
Performance evaluation of PCA-based spike sorting algorithms
Adamos DA, Kosmidis EK and Theophilidis G Deciphering the electrical activity of individual neurons from multi-unit noisy recordings is critical for understanding complex neural systems. A widely used spike sorting algorithm is being evaluated for single-electrode nerve trunk recordings. The algorithm is based on principal component analysis (PCA) for spike feature extraction. In the neuroscience [...]
Post Doctoral Research Position in Neuroengineering
The EPFL and the Brain Mind Institute (http://bmi.epfl.ch) are seeking an outstanding and highly motivated Postdoctoral researcher for a challenging project with focus on the biophysical interactions between neuronal networks and conductive nanoparticles (see references below). The successful candidate is expected to join a new generation of neuro-nano engineers and neuroscientists, consolidating and developing unique [...]
Postdoctoral position in image analysis / computational neuroscience
FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITION with emphasis on advanced image analysis techniques, single particle tracking and/or neural plasticity modeling is available for a highly motivated candidate at Washington University School of Medicine. lab dedicated to studying (1) the mechanisms of synaptic transmission at individual synapses and (2) the role of rapid synaptic plasticity in information processing by [...]
Post doc position in neural prostheses development
2-year post doc position in neural prostheses development, Laboratory for Biomedical Microtechnology, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Germany Application Dead-line: September 30, 2008 The Laboratory for Biomedical Microtechnology (http://www.imtek.de/bmt) as part of the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at the University of Freiburg (Germany) offers a post-doc position for two years within [...]
HHSim, a Hodgkin-Huxley graphical simulator
HHsim is a graphical simulation of a section of excitable neuronal membrane using the Hodgkin-Huxley equations. It provides full access to the Hodgkin-Huxley parameters, membrane parameters, stimulus parameters, and ion concentrations. In contrast with NEURON or GENESIS, which are vastly more sophisticated research tools, HHsim is simple educational software designed specifically for graduate or undergraduate [...]
PhD studentship in computational neuroscience at EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland
One funded PhD student position in computational neuroscience: gait generation and gait transition in the salamander The Biologically Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG) in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) has one open PhD studentship in computational neuroscience. The position is part of a project funded by the Swiss SystemsX initiative [...]
Neuroinformatics 2008, publication of abstracts
The 1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics is scheduled for September 7 – 9, 2008. Neuroinformatics 2008 will focus on dissemination of recent progress and community building in this emerging field. The congress is organized as a single track event, with keynote speakers, workshops, poster sessions, and live demos of neuroinformatics applications. All the abstracts of [...]
Bio-inspired computer vision PhD or Postdoc position available
The Autonomous Intelligent Systems group at the Computer Science Institute of University of Bonn, Germany, has an immediate opening for a PhD candidate or PostDoc in the area of bio-inspired computer vision systems. The group, headed by Prof. Sven Behnke, conducts research in the areas of computational intelligence and cognitive robotics. The group developed a [...]
The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility Software Center is still under development. The development team has to date focused on implemention of basic functionality, to allow neuroscience software users to efficiently and effectively find, evaluate, and successfully make use of shared software tools. INCF’s vision of the Software Center is that it will become a communication [...]
NeuralEnsemble is a multilateral effort to coordinate and organise Neuroscience software development efforts into a larger meta-simulator software system, a natural and alternate approach to incrementally address what is known as the complexity bottleneck, presently a major roadblock for neural modelling. NeuralEnsemble hosts Trac/Subversion servers for a number of open-source neuroscience tools: PyNN a Python [...]
FIND toolbox – Finding Information in Neural Data
A Matlab-based, open-source analysis toolbox for multiple-neuron recordings and network simulations. Currently the FIND-Toolbox accommodates import of multiple proprietary data formats, based on the Neuroshare Project . Physiological data from different acquisition systems and Network simulations Environments can now be compared using identical analysis methods. This allows verifying of both results across experiments and laboratories [...]
ModelDB is a searchable on-line database that supports the field of computational neuroscience (CNS) through convenient sharing of published models. It catalyzes advances in CNS by enabling verification of published models–which is essential for scientific reproducibility–and fostering attributed re-use and extension of models. ModelDB http://senselab.med.yale.edu/modeldb/ contains 367 models, implemented with more than 30 different programming [...]
A comparison of neural network simulation enviroments has been posted. It is a new GFDL-licensed project to document a variety of modern neural simulators along a number of useful dimensions. Visit the project’s page here: http://grey.colorado.edu/emergent/index.php/Comparison_of_Neural_Network_Simulators
5 year research position in theoretical neuroscience and cognitive science
Mathematical Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal Application Dead-line: September 8, 2008 JOB SUMMARY The Centre of Mathematics at the University of Minho (Portugal, http://www.cmat.uminho.pt ) invites applications for a 5-year research position in “Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience/Cognitive Science”. The position is part of a prestigious national program for research (http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/contratacaodoutorados/index.phtml.en). JOB DESCRIPTION The research [...]
PhD position in complex systems and brain sciences
Center for complex systems & brain sciences, Florida Atlantic University. Applications are currently being accepted for interdisciplinary PhD training under the joint mentorship of Drs. Steven Bressler and Viktor Jirsa. The program of training will take a theoretical approach to the study of neural and cognitive function. The position will focus on understanding the connectivity [...]
Brain machine interfaces (BMIs) is a field that holds out the hope of allowing severely paralyzed people to communicate with the world, move their limbs, and even walk. Of course, making that happen is far from simple. Nevertheless, researchers are working to develop solutions to the many practical problems that have prevented the idea from [...]
Review: Reliability, synchrony and noise
This review describes a constructive role for noise in synchronizing populations of neurons. Trends Neurosci. 2008 Jul 4. [Epub ahead of print] Reliability, synchrony and noise. Ermentrout GB, Galán RF, Urban NN. The brain is noisy. Neurons receive tens of thousands of highly fluctuating inputs and generate spike trains that appear highly irregular. Much of [...]
Post-Doctoral Position in Mathematical Biology
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Post-Doctoral Position in Mathematical Biology The IUPUI Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Mathematical Biosciences invite applications for a one-year postdoctoral position in mathematical and computational biology, beginning September 1, 2008 (or later). This position may be renewed for an additional year based upon the availability of funds. The [...]
Thesis fellowship EEG Neurofeedback to control mind wandering
Thesis fellowship for 3 years financed by the French ministry of research in Toulouse, France: EEG Neurofeedback to control mind wandering. The capacity to concentrate for long period of times is critical both for students and some specific position (air traffic controller, monitor security guard, child care teacher or even Paris taxi driver). Failure to [...]
Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2009
MAIN MEETING 26 Feb – 1 Mar, 2009 Salt Lake City, Utah WORKSHOPS 2 – 3 Mar, 2009 Snowbird Ski Resort, Utah Cosyne is an annual meeting providing an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. The meeting is expected to draw about 350-400 researchers from a [...]
PhD Studentships, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London The world-class Department of Bioengineering (rated 5* in the Research Assessment Exercise) has available for October 2008 1 BBSRC-funded CASE (industry supported) and 1 standard BBSRC studentships. Eligibility/Duration The BBSRC studentships are open to UK and EU candidates who have been ordinarily resident in the UK for [...]
Computational Neurobiology Graduate Program at UCSD
Neurosciences Graduate Training Program – University of California, San Diego The Computational Neurobiology Specialization is a new facet of the broader Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCSD. The goal of the specialization is to train the next generation of neuroscientists with the broad range of computational and analytical skills that are essential to understand the organization [...]
Teaching Coordinator, Master and PhD Program Computational Neuroscience
The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin has the following open position: Teaching Coordinator Master and PhD Program Computational Neuroscience Starting date: Sep 01, 2008 Applications due: Jul 14, 2008 Applications received after this date might still be considered Tenure: 2 years Remuneration: BAT IIa, part time 30 h Job Description Teaching Coordinator for [...]
PhD Studentship in Computational Neuroscience
PhD Studentship in Computational Neuroscience, Science and Technology Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire, UK Applications are invited for a 3 year PhD Studentship in Computational Neuroscience in the Science and Technology Research Institute at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. The studentship will cover a stipend of £12,940 per year plus payment of the standard UK [...]
Postdoc position announcement, IBM Research
Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Computational Brain Modeling at IBM Research IBM is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to participate in a joint research collaboration between the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and the Stockholm Brain Institute (SBI) in Sweden. This collaboration will involve modeling multiple brain regions and their interactions to provide insights into the emotional [...]
PhD Studentship – Neural Networks – UCL
Applications are invited for a 3 year PhD Studentship in Computational Neuroscience in Professor Silver’s Laboratory, Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, UK. The studentship covers fees and provides a stipend for UK and EU nationals. The project will explore signal processing in cortical networks using biologically realistic models. This will [...]
A Chip to Better Control Brain Stimulators for Parkinson’s
By Morgen E. Peck IEEE Spectrum Online, June 2008 Michigan engineers are developing a closed-loop deep-brain stimulation device for Parkinson’s disease that would listen to the brain while stimulating it. PHOTO: Dr. Helen Mayberg 19 June 2008—For more than a decade, doctors have been implanting devices called deep-brain stimulators into patients with Parkinson’s disease and [...]
Researchers track down antibodies responsible for multiple sclerosis
Published in Research Headlines, Research Information Centre, European Commission Autoimmune diseases establish themselves when antibodies designed to protect the human body against foreign invaders turn against their own cells and tissues. In multiple sclerosis (MS), antibodies begin to attack nerve cells which leads to a degeneration of the myelin fibres, the sheath that surrounds neurons. [...]
Institute of Cognitive Science The research group for Neurobiopsychology (Prof. Dr. Peter König) offers a vacancy (50%) for the position of a Researcher (Diploma/Master level) (Salary level according to E 13 TV-L) to be filled at earliest practicable date for a period of two years. The position involves independent research within the research project “Does [...]
Postdoctoral – research associate position in computational neuroscience
A postdoctoral/research associate position is available in the Lab for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine. Current projects in the lab supported by NIH include (1) computational modeling of brainstem respiratory network and neural control of breathing and (2) computational modeling of the spinal circuitry [...]
PhD position in neural engineering for an excellent PhD student at the Centre of Atomic Energy (CEA) Grenoble, France. http://www-instn.cea.fr/Publication_Sujet.php3?nomfichier=SL-DRT-08-148&lang=EN&id_rubrique=140 Applicants are invited for a PhD position in the field of neural engineering with the focus on Brain Computer Interface. The successful applicant will perform research in signal processing, modelling from experimental data, machine learning, [...]
Postdoctoral position in computational and theoretical neuroscience
Postdoctoral position is available starting July 1st, 2008 at the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (http://www.genomics.ucr.edu/) and the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside (Bazhenov laboratory). The long-range goal of our research program is to understand cellular and network mechanisms underlying normal and paroxysmal oscillations in the brain and [...]
Full professor position in stochastics and theoretical neuroscience
A tenured position is available for a full-time professor of stochastics at the Radboud university in Nijmegen, in the department of Mathematics. The selected candidate is expected to explore collaborations in the area of theoretical neuroscience and/or machine learning. Please find attached the advertisement for this position.
PhD position in visual Neuroscience – Art perception
Applications are invited from outstanding graduates for a full-time, three-year PhD studentship, starting in October 2008. The project will be co-supervised by Dr Sandra Dudley & Prof Rodrigo Quian Quiroga at the University of Leicester, and David Barrie, Director of The Art Fund, the UK’s leading independent art charity. This project aims to combine approaches [...]
Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computations International PhD Program
The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computations (ICNC) at the Hebrew University solicits applications for its Ph.D. Program in computational neuroscience. The Ph.D. Program exists since 1992, and currently has about 60 students, with 12-15 new admissions every year. Graduate studies are expected to last 5 years. Starting from the beginning of the next academic year, [...]
Moving Mountains With the Brain, Not a Joystick
STILL using a mouse, keyboard, joystick or motion sensor to control the action in a video game? It may be time to try brain power instead. By ANNE EISENBERG Published: NY Times, June 8, 2008 Jim Wilson/The New York Times A new headset system picks up electrical activity from the brain, as well as from [...]
PhD positions in Cognitive Science, University Osnabrück
The research group for Neurobiopsychology (Prof. Dr. Peter König http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~NBP/) has two vacancies for positions of a PHd student. (Scholarships are for a maximum of three years, to start at November 1st, 2008. ) The positions involve research within the Research Training Group Adaptivity in Hybrid Cognitive Systems (http://www.cogsci.uos.de/PhD/GK) in the area of processing of [...]
postdoc position: insect neurophysiology and aerodynamics
A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Fabrizio Gabbiani at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. The lab studies mechanisms of visually guided collision avoidance at the cellular, systems, and computational level using a variety of techniques (intra-/extra- cellular recordings, calcium imaging, pharmacology, behavior using high-speed video, compartmental modeling). The goal [...]
Postdoc position on PFC/BG/Cognitive Control
A postdoctoral position is available starting June 1, 2008, for research on computational models of the neural basis of higher level cognitive function, working in collaboration with Randall O’Reilly (CU Boulder), John Anderson and Christian Lebiere (CMU). Funding is available to explore how the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia can support higher levels of cognitive [...]
Postdoctoral Position: Computational neuroscience, neural data analysis, augmented cognition
Riesenhuber Lab, Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University, Washington, DC A postdoctoral fellow position is available, starting immediately, to participate in a research project studying the neural mechanisms underlying “fast” object recognition using single-trial analysis of high-density EEG data, as part of a larger collaborative project aiming to develop a real-time neurally-based target detection system combining [...]
Researchers to join Evolved Machines, Inc.
Evolved Machines Inc. is actively looking for brilliant researchers who want to join us in developing a new generation of neural machines capable of performing real world olfaction, visual object recognition, and sensorimotor control. Doctoral-level academic research in for example evolutionary robotics, neuroscience, virtual reality computation, or electrical engineering are all appropriate, but the absolute [...]
Treatment’s promise moves beyond movement disorders By Tom Valeo Posted in The DANA Foundation’s BRAINWORK Vol. 18, No. 3 | May – June 2008 Electrically stimulating the hypothalamus of a morbidly obese man failed to curb his appetite, but jogged his memory instead, and that has pushed researchers to study whether the technique may hold [...]
Software Lead for Stanford’s Neurogrid Project
Software Lead for Stanford’s Neurogrid Project Brains in Silicon Lab / Clark Center / Bio-X Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering seeks to hire a software engineer or computational scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Kwabena Boahen to lead the software thrust of the lab’s NIH-funded Neurogrid project. The project’s goal is to make it easy and [...]
Modelling of complex biological networks Biosystems Group, School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom A postdoctoral fellowship is available immediately to work with Dr. Netta Cohen at the Biosystems Group, School of Computing in the University of Leeds for approximately two years. Research areas covered in the group include: Computational neuroscience Worm locomotion [...]
Open MSc position: Modeling the impact of astrocyte-neuron metabolic interactions on neural activity. The group of Prof Bruno Weber (University of Zurich, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology) is looking for a talented and motivated Masters student for a computational neuroscience project aimed at understanding the energetic constraints of neuronal activity The brain uses glucose as [...]
Phd position in high resolution quantitative optical imaging of neurometabolic and neurovascular coupling mechanisms. Noninvasive functional neuroimaging tools are widely applied to study the human brain in action. However, the hemodynamic signals of the most extensively used methods are still not well understood. This joint EPFL and ETHZ PhD project aims at understanding the quantitative [...]
PhD student positions in theoretical Neurophysics
The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen invites applications for PhD student positions in theoretical Neurophysics The student’s research will analyze dynamical self-organization of the functional architecture of neocortical networks in mathematical models and through the quantitative analysis of high resolution live imaging data from neocortical networks in the living brain. The student’s research will [...]
Postdoctoral and PhD student positions in cellular neurophysics / neurophysiology
The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen invites applications for a Postdoctoral and PhD student positions in cellular neurophysics/neurophysiology. The candidates’s research will experimentally analyze the dynamical properties of sodium channels in neocortical neurons in situ and model their role in the operation of cortical neurons and networks and will be part of an integrated [...]
Postdoctoral and PhD student positions in Neurophysics
The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen invites applications for Postdoctoral and PhD student positions in Neurophysics. Research will experimentally probe and control the dynamics of living neural networks using innovative optical stimulation methods and will be part of an integrated project of the Max Planck Institutes for Dynamics and Self-Organization, for Experimental Medicine, and [...]
Computational Neuroscience post-doc position available
Employer: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Deco, Foundation Barcelona Media / Technology Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Applications are invited for a Post-Doctoral positions in the Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Group at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, commencing immediately. The project: “Large scale interactions in brain networks and their breakdown in brain diseases” (European FP7) [...]
14 open PhD and Post-doc positions in computational vision
The planned Frankfurt Bernstein Center for Neurotechnology offers a range of post-doc and PhD positions (14 in total, pending final approval) for theoretical research in: -computational neuroscience -computer vision -machine learning -developmental robotics http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/bernstein The initiative will combine basic research in these fields to develop integrated and autonomously learning vision systems. We are looking for [...]
Blue Brain Project Satellite Meeting FENS 2008
The Blue Brain Project is hosting a satellite meeting just before the FENS 2008 meeting at the PalEXPO center in Geneva, Switzerland, from July 10-11, 2008. Registration for this meeting is now open with a limited number of spaces available. It is recommended to register as soon as possible as registration will close as soon [...]
INCF MUSIC project: request for comments
The INCF has engaged in the development of software that allows large scale neuron simulators to communicate during runtime. An RFC – Request For Comments – document is now available and open for comments on the proposed design and prototype specifications. MUSIC (Multi-Simulation Coordinator) is a project under the INCF Program on Large-Scale Modeling of [...]
Programmer – SysAdmin Position at CU Boulder
The Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder is seeking applications for an experienced computer support specialist for system administration and programming related to neuroimaging (fMRI, ERP) and computational modeling work within the Institute. This person will help purchase and manage a large new computer cluster (and Mac & Linux desktop machines [...]
Brian is a new simulator for spiking neural networks available on almost all platforms. The motivation for this project is that a simulator should not only save the time of processors, but also the time of scientists. Brian is easy to learn and use, highly flexible and easily extensible. http://brian.di.ens.fr The Brian package itself and [...]
1 May 2008—Anyone familiar with electronics knows the trinity of fundamental components: the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor. In 1971, a University of California, Berkeley, engineer predicted that there should be a fourth element: a memory resistor, or memristor. But no one knew how to build one. Now, 37 years later, electronics have finally [...]
Postdoctoral position in Cortically-coupled Computer Vision
Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Engineering The Laboratory for Intelligent Imaging and Neural Computing (LIINC) at Columbia University has an immediate opening for one (most probably two) Postdoctoral Fellow(s) to participate in in the “Cortically-coupled Computer Vision (C3Vision)” research program. The C3Vision program looks to synergistically couple biological and computer vision systems using a combination [...]
Multiple Tenure Track Faculty Positions in Systems and Computational Biology
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, one of the leading medical schools in New York City, is seeking to fill multiple tenure track faculty positions in the newly formed Department of Systems and Computational Biology. Established in April 2008, the major goal of the new department is to advance our understanding of living systems by [...]
Postdoc position available: modelling development of retinotopic maps
A postdoctoral position is being offered under a joint computational/experimental Wellcome Trust Programme Grant awarded to Dr Stephen Eglen (Cambridge) in collaboration with Professor David Willshaw (Edinburgh) and Professors Ian Thompson and Uwe Drescher (Kings College London). The aim of the grant is to evaluate the relative contributions of electrical activity as against molecular guidance [...]
Postdoctoral Position – Ventral Tegmental Area
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the computational and experimental neuroscience laboratory at the University of Arizona (Fellous laboratory, link below). The applicant will lead a project designed to understand the network computations performed within the ventral tegmental area of the rat. The applicant will use a combination of in vivo behaving (tetrodes), [...]
Computational neuroscience post-doctoral position
Applications are requested for a postdoctoral position in visual neurophysiology at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), which is part of McGill University’s School of Medicine. The MNI is located in downtown Montreal, Canada, and provides a multifaceted neuroscience environment with clinical and research activities housed under one roof. The successful candidate will work with Christopher [...]
Two postdoctoral positions in computational/experimental neuroscience
Two postdoctoral positions are available starting July 1st, 2008 in the laboratory of Maxim Bazhenov at the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology and the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside: http://www.genomics.ucr.edu/ The long-range goal of our research program is to understand general aspects and basic mechanisms of biological rhythms [...]
New datasharing website for computational neuroscience
The new website http://www.crcns.org is available for sharing resources for computational neuroscience, such as high-quality experimental data sets, analytical tools and models. Currently, the website hosts resources whose preparation have been supported by a new funding track in the joint NSF/NIH program Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5147 The resources currently available are electrophysiology data [...]
Minischool and Workshop on Multiple Time Scales in the Dynamics of the Nervous System
ICTP, Trieste, Italy June 16-20 2008 http://agenda.ictp.it/smr.php?1947 Organizers: N. Brunel, P. Del Giudice, S. Franz, R. Zecchina, Fusi The event will focus on the present understanding of the role of multiple time scales in the dynamics of the nervous system. Intrinsic time scales of single neuron dynamics are mostly in the range of a few [...]
Postdoctoral Position: EEG of fast visual recognition
Riesenhuber Lab, Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. An opening for a postdoctoral fellow, starting immediately, is available to participate in a research project studying the neural mechanisms underlying “fast” object recognition using high-density EEG, focusing on attentional requirements and interference between recognition tasks (e.g., under dual-task conditions), as part of a larger collaborative [...]
Postdoctoral Training Fellowships – Theoretical Neuroscience The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit invites applications for postdoctoral training fellowships in theoretical neuroscience and related areas. The Gatsby Unit is a centre for theoretical neuroscience and machine learning, focusing on the interpretation of neural data, population coding, perceptual processing, neural dynamics, neuromodulation, and learning. The Unit also has [...]
PhD position in neural engineering at CEA Grenoble, France
PhD position in neural engineering for an excellent PhD student at CEA Grenoble, France. The dead line for applications is April 20, 2008. http://www-instn.cea.fr/Publication_Sujet.php3?nomfichier=SL-DRT-08-148&lang=EN&id_rubrique=140 Applicants are invited for a PhD position in the field of neural engineering with the focus on Brain Computer Interface. The successful applicant will perform research in signal processing, modelling from [...]
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Position in Computational Neuroscience in the Kreiman lab, Department of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University. A strong quantitative background and experience in Neuroscience research is requested. The post-doc will work in a collaborative and strong academic environment within the [...]
Two PostDoctoral or Ph.D. student positions
The Bernstein Center for Neurotechnology Goettingen (BCNT) invites applications for 2 PostDoctoral or Ph.D. student positions in the project “Magnetic stimulation in cell culture and brain”. In this German-Israeli cooperation between the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, the Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel) and the Medical School of Göttingen University, we will combine numerical simulations, experimental [...]
PhD position in computational neuroscience, INRA Versailles, France
Applicants are invited for a PhD position in the field of theoretical neuroscience with a focus on olfaction. The successful applicant will perform research in modelling the insect olfactory system. The aim of the project is to understand the mechanisms of odour coding by means of a multidisciplinary approach combining models and experiments. The candidate [...]
PhD Studentship in computational neuroscience
A 3 year PhD studentship is available (pending approval) at the School of Computing Science of Newcastle University (www.cs.ncl.ac.uk), in the area of computational neuroscience with a focus on the analysis of the activity of the crab stomatogastric ganglion (STG). The project will involve the use of high resolution voltage-sensitive dye imaging of the STG [...]
Deadline for Paper Submissions: June 6, 2008, 23:59 Universal Standard Time. Submissions are solicited for the Twenty Second Annual meeting of an interdisciplinary Conference (December 8-11) that brings together researchers interested in all aspects of neural and statistical processing and computation. The Conference will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of [...]
Announcement of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [November 20, 2007 - deadline: June 02, 2008] The BMBF has established four “Bernstein Centres for Computational Neuroscience” (www.bernstein-zentren.de) within the framework of its “National Network for Computational Neuroscience” funding activity. These high-performing centres are the major structural elements of the National Network. This means [...]
Chronux is an open-source software package being developed for the analysis of neural data. It is a collaborative research effort based at the Mitra Lab in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that has grown out of the work of several groups. Chronux routines may be employed in the analysis of both point process and continuous data, [...]
Information theoretic methods are now widely used for the analysis of spike train data. However, developing robust implementations of these methods can be tedious and time-consuming. In order to facilitate further adoption of these methods, the Spike Train Analysis Toolkit implements several information-theoretic spike train analysis techniques. This implementation behaves like a typical Matlab toolbox, [...]
8th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering
BIBE 2008 – Announcement and Call for Papers October 8-10, 2008, Athens, Greece This year’s BIBE will be held in October 8-10, 2008, in Athens, one of the world’s oldest cities with a huge recorded history and cultural heritage. The annual IEEE BIBE aims at building synergy between Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, two complementary disciplines that [...]
MSc on Neural Systems, Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Function
From Neuron to Behaviour: MSc programme on Neural Systems, Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Function. A new MSc programme Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at University of Plymouth, UK. The course is full time for 12 months, and starts in September 2008. The programme provides a comprehensive knowledge of principles and concepts of brain functioning. It covers [...]
FIAS Summer School Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems 2008
The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) is organizing a PENS-Blackwell Summer School on: Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems Frankfurt, Germany, August 2-24, 2008 Applications are invited for this three-week summer school from graduate students and post-docs in experimental and computational neuroscience and theoretical physics. Up to 30 students will be accepted. The school is [...]
The research group in Neural Information Processing (Neuroinformatik) at the Universität Ulm invites applications for a position of a Research Scientist (Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) that is open by March 1, 2008. Salary is according to German scale for research staff personnel (TVL-13). The position is initially for 12 months, starting in March 2008 (or soon after), [...]
Master in Cognition and Computational Neuroscience, University of Birmingham
The School of Psychology, University of Birmingham (UK) offers a Master of Research (M.Res) in Cognition and Computational Neuroscience. This master programme is open to graduate students with a good first degree in Biology, Computer Science, or Physics. The course is ideal for people who are thinking of pursuing a PhD in psychology and want [...]
Studentships in computational neuroscience
Applications are now open for three studentships in computational neuroscience as part of the White Rose University Consortium ‘Active Vision’ network (Universities of Sheffield, York and Leeds) Details of the studentships are available here: http://www.shef.ac.uk/pgresearch/studentships/wrnetwork2.html The network will bring together leading research groups at Sheffield, Leeds and York with overlapping interests and complementary skills in [...]
PGCN 2008 Course on The Hippocampus and Navigation
Call for applications: The Hippocampus and Navigation 31 March – 4 April 2008 Champalimaud Foundation Neuroscience Program Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Oerias, Portugal This intensive, week-long course will explore one of the most intensively investigated and fascinating regions of the mammalian brain, the hippocampus. Leading researchers will provide background on classical and contemporary views of [...]
PhD in stereo vision – computational neuroscience in Newcastle, UK
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in Jenny Read’s lab at Newcastle University, UK, starting in September 2008. Dr Read’s research combines human psychophysics and computational modelling to address the neuronal basis of stereopsis (see for example Read & Cumming 2007 Nature Neurosci 10:1322). The successful candidate will have a good degree in a [...]
NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING July 7-11, 2008, Porto, Portugal http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt email: nn-2008@isep.ipp.pt GENERAL INFORMATION The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University (FEUP). Following last year experience, this year’s edition also includes [...]
“Databasing and Modeling the Brain” Stockholm, Sweden -September 7-9, 2008 Neuroinformatics 2008 will focus on dissemination of recent progress and community building in this emerging field. The congress is organized as a single track event, with 6 keynote speakers, 5 workshops, and 2 poster sessions, as well as live demos of neuroinformatics applications. Online registration [...]
4th International Summer School on Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine
4th International Summer School on Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine «Advanced Methods For The Estimation Of Human Brain Activity And Connectivity, Applications to Rehabilitation Engineering» June 29th-July 4th 2008, Patras, Greece Patras 2008 Summer School Office Dept. of Medical Physics, University of Patras, 26500 Patras, Greece http://heart.med.upatras.gr/school2008, Email: school2008@heart.med.upatras.gr Phone: +30-2610-969145,6,7 – Fax: +30-2610-969166 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT [...]
RIKEN Brain Science Institute 2008 Summer Program
Application deadline; February 29th, 2008 Lecture Course: July 28 – August 8 Internship: June 25 – August 20 Every summer, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Wako, Japan; nearby Tokyo) organizes the international summer school. The short summary of the summer school this year is attached below. Application guideline, further information of the coming and past summer [...]
Scholarships for PhD study in Informatics, Edinburgh
Fifty research scholarships are available for UK, EU and overseas students. Many are full scholarships, paying your tuition fees and a stipend of 12940 pounds to cover living expenses in your first year, rising in second and third years. The rest pay your fees and/or a contribution towards living expenses. Payment of fees for non-EU [...]
PhD scholarships: Evolution of Communication in Robot Societies
Applications are invited for two PhD scholarships within the project “Evolution of Communication in Robot Societies” at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL, Lausanne (http://lis.epfl.ch) The project will be conducted in close collaboration with the Department of Ecology and Evolution of the University of Lausanne. The aim of the project is to use a combination [...]
Post doctoral position available in computational neuroscience
FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITION with emphasis on Computational Neuroscience is available for a highly motivated candidate at New York University School of Medicine. We are a recently established lab dedicated to studying (1) the mechanisms of synaptic transmission at individual synapses and (2) the role of rapid synaptic plasticity in information processing by individual synapses and [...]
5 Year Research Position in Cognitive Robotics
University of Minho, Portugal (REFERENCE: C2007-UMINHO-ALGORITMI-09) SUMMARY: Within the framework of a prestigious national program for research (http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/contratacaodoutorados/index.phtml.en), the “Autonomous Robotics and Dynamical Systems Group” at the University of Minho offers a research position in Cognitive Robotics. Applicants should hold a PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, AI or a related field. Preference will be given [...]
Undergraduate Summer Internship in Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience at Rice University, Houston, TX Application Deadline is February 29, 2008 Research training in theoretical and computational neuroscience Leadership, mentorship and social retreats. Special seminars and career development workshops. A $4,500 stipend and up to $800 in travel support For details see: http://cohesion.rice.edu/centersandinst/gcc/neuro_about.cfm?doc_id=12025
ENS Spring school: Models in neuroscience: turning experiments into knowledge
St. Petersburg, Russia from April, 27 to May, 5 2008. The school will emphasize the role of modeling as a knowledge structuring tool.The lectures will describe the use of mathematical model-based approaches to infer knowledge from the experimental data and statistical models used for establishing significance of findings. Additional goals of the school are to [...]
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AREADNE 2008 Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles June 26 – 29, 2008 Nomikos Conference Center Santorini, Greece INTRODUCTION One of the fundamental problems in neuroscience today is to understand how the activation of large populations of neurons give rise to higher order functions of the brain [...]
Post doc position in University of Oulu, Finland
Applications are invited for a position of post-doctoral research fellow for three years between 2008-2011 in the group led by Dr. Mikko Vähäsöyrinki and prof. Matti Weckström, Department of Physical Sciences and Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland JOB DESCRIPTION The appointee will be expected to conduct research as a part of a multidisciplinary research [...]
Junior research scientist positions in computational neuroscience and brain imaging
Junior research scientist positions in computational neuroscience and brain imaging in the Odyssee Laboratory at INRIA (France). The Odyssee laboratory (project team, http://www-sop.inria.fr/odyssee/presentation/index.en.html) at INRIA (the French Research Institute in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics) is looking for top candidates to fill one or two junior researcher positions in computational neuroscience or brain imaging (functional, [...]
2008 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop
Sunday, JUNE 29th – Saturday, JULY 19th, 2008, Telluride, Colorado Call for Applications Deadline: March 23rd, 2008 Avis COHEN (University of Maryland) Rodney DOUGLAS (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Ralph ETIENNE-CUMMINGS (Johns Hopkins University) Paul HASLER (Georgia Institute of Technology) Timmer HORIUCHI (University of Maryland) Giacomo INDIVERI (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Tobias [...]
Science and Technology Research Institute University of Hertfordshire £23,000 – £25,100 p.a. 3 years fixed term contract in the first instance Closing date: 6 February 2008 Applications are invited for a three year postdoc position in computational neuroscience. The project will focus on information processing in the vestibular cerebellum and involve the construction of a [...]
Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2008
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 8, 2008 SUBMISSION OPEN: January 21, 2008 July 19 – July 24, 2008 Portland, Oregon CNS*2008 will be held in Portland, Oregon July 19-24, 2008. A welcome reception will be held on the evening of July 19th and the scientific program will start Sunday, July 20th in the morning. The main meeting [...]
2nd European Summer School on Knowledge Discovery for Ubiquitous Computing
The 2nd European Summer School on Knowledge Discovery for Ubiquitous Computing Porto 2-9 March 2008 http://wiki.kdubiq.org/summerschool2008/index.php/Main/Home The goal of the summer school of KDubiq is to establish a common ground for the integration of the involved fields and to support the formation of a new community. Starting with an introduction into embedded systems, more specialized [...]
Postdoctoral positions-University of Pittsburgh
The Department of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for postdoctoral appointment starting the Fall Term 2008 subject to final funding approval. The appointment is renewable annually to a maximum of three years. The position will likely be funded jointly by the University of Pittsburgh and a new NSF Research Training Group (RTG) [...]
The ERP Boot Camp, an 11-day summer workshop on the ERP technique funded by NIMH, will be held July 7-17 2008 at UC-Davis. It is intended for beginning and intermediate ERP researchers, or people who are interested in getting started in ERP research. It is designed for both basic scientists and clinical researchers. The topics [...]
Summer school MECHANOSENSORS: FROM BIOLOGICAL TO BIONIC SYSTEMS
The summer school is held from 30 March – 3 April 2008 in Girona, Spain. Main topics are Biological Mechanosensory Systems, Fluid Dynamics, Modelling of System Dynamics, Artificial Sensors and Robotics. The school addresses PhD students and young researchers, as well as newcomers in the field of Mechanosensor Systems and will afford an opportunity for [...]
2 POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS: Dynamics of visual perception and attention
Starting date: Spring/Summer 2008 2 postdoctoral positions are available to work in collaboration with Rufin VanRullen at the CerCo in Toulouse, France. The project investigates temporal aspects of visual perception, attention and awareness, using a combination of psychophysical, neuro-imaging (EEG, fMRI) and computational tools. One position is focused on human experimentation: the successful applicant will [...]
Research position in biologically motivated visual processing
The Fraunhofer-Institute for applied information technology, research group “Life-science informatics” (FIT.LIFE) is looking for a master student (IT, Physics, or Mathematics) to take part in the EU-project “SEARISE: Smart Eyes: Attending and Recognizing Instances of Salient Events” with the explicit possibility of the pursuit of a PhD. Reference No.: FIT-2007-3 Internet: http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/jobs/wma/FIT-10919.html The Fraunhofer-Institute for [...]
Advanced Course for Computational Neuroscience 2008
August 4th -29th, 2008 Freiburg, Germany DIRECTORS: * Israel Nelken (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) * Nicolas Brunel (CNRS Paris) * John Rinzel (NYU, New York, USA) * Peter Latham (University College London, UK) LOCAL ORGANIZER: * Florence Dancoisne (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg) The Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience is for advanced graduate students [...]
The 2008 Progress Report on Brain Research
Including essays on arts and cognition by Michael S. Gazzaniga and on deep brain stimulation by Mahlon R. DeLong and Thomas Wichmann Published annually, the Progress Report describes the top findings in brain research during the previous year affecting areas such as disorders of development, aging, and movement, as well as mental and thought disorders. [...]
Bioengineering group – Department of Engineering – University of Leicester A 3-year post-doc position is available to candidates with a PhD in areas related to Neuroscience or Signal Processing (physics, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences). The starting date is March 2008. The focus of the project is to study single neuron correlates of conscious visual perception [...]
Scholarpedia.org is looking for graduate students to work as assistant editors
Scholarpedia is the open access encyclopedia hosting “Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience” and “Encyclopedia of Computational Intelligence”. It attempts to partner the authority and responsibility of a printed encyclopedia with the dynamism and timeliness of a wiki. Scholarpedia.org is looking for graduate students to work as assistant editors. Among their responsibilities, assistant editors would have direct [...]
Call for papers: Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines 2008
AMAM: Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines June 1-6, 2008, Cleveland, OH, USA http://amam.case.edu AMAM 2008 is the fourth international symposium dedicated to the neuromechanics, sensory perception, and intelligence behind adaptive movement in animals, and the modeling, analysis, and technical development of adaptive movement in animals and machines. Previous symposia were held in Montreal, Canada [...]
Call for papers: Epigenetic Robotics 2008
31 July – 2 August, 2008, Brighton, UK Eighth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org Email: epirob08@epigenetic-robotics.org ***2008 Conference Theme*** Evolution and Development: Related Processes of Change Location: University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Important Dates: —————- 1 April 2008: Deadline for submission of papers & posters 31 May 2008: [...]
Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2008
KINAWA COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE COURSE 2008 Methods, Neurons, Networks and Behaviors June 15 – July 4, 2008. Okinawa, Japan http://www.irp.oist.jp/ocnc/2008 The aim of the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course is to provide opportunities for young researchers with theoretical backgrounds to learn the latest advances in neuroscience, and for those with experimental backgrounds to have hands-on experience in [...]
Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine
The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) is seeking nominations and applications for Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine that publishes short tutorials on various topics, and columns and news in biomedical engineering. EMB Magazine is published on a bi-monthly basis by IEEE. The Editor-in-Chief position is for a [...]
Postdoctoral Position in Computational Neuroscience of the Vibrissal System
A postdoctoral position is available from March 1st, 2008 to study the network mechanisms underlying the dynamics of the whisker sensory-motor system of rodents. The position is for 2 years with an option for extension. The research will be carried out at the neurophysics lab of David Golomb at the Ben-Gurion University, Be’er-Sheva, Israel and [...]
Postdoctoral position – The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, CA – application of DTI to brain models
The Neurosciences Institute, located in San Diego, California, invites applications for a POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP in theoretical neurobiology, available immediately. The fellow will participate in the ongoing project to build a large-scale model of the mammalian brain with white-matter anatomy using human Diffusion Tensor Imaging and fiber-tracking methods (see http://nsi.edu/users/izhikevich/interest/) Applicants should have Ph.D in Mathematics, [...]
PhD studentships in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience, Edinburgh
We invite applications for 12 fully-funded PhD studentships at the University of Edinburgh Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience. The DTC is a world-class centre for research at the interface between neuroscience and the engineering and physical sciences. Our four-year programme is ideal for students with strong computational and analytical skills who [...]
Single-Neuron Modeling award and competition
We would like to invite you to participate in the Quantitative Single-Neuron Modeling Competition 2008 http://lcn.epfl.ch/QuantNeuronMod2008/ Why such a competition? How well are single-cell properties reproduced by the present-day neuronal models? Recently, several labs have approached this question by assessing the quality of neuron models with respect to spike timing prediction or characteristic features of [...]
PhD and postdoctoral stipends in vision or computational neuroscience
Several PhD and postdoctoral stipends in vision or computational neuroscience are available at the Dept. of Psychology, University of Münster, Germany in association with a European consortium concerned with high-level visual scene understanding. The consortium aims at an active view on scene perception combining computer vision, computational neuroscience, robotics, visual psychophysics, oculomotor function, and neurophysiology. [...]
Post Doc Positions in Computational Neuroscience available
2 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Positions in Computational Neuroscience a) 3 years fixed term, full time – Ref 928 b) 3 years fixed term, part-time 50% fte – Ref 929 Salary range: Grade 7 £27,466 to £32,796 p.a. (pro-rata for part me) are available at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR) at the University [...]
Postdoctoral position in applied dynamical systems and theoretical neuroscience
The Department of Mathematics of the University of Houston has a one-year postdoctoral position in the field of Applied Dynamical Systems in the Fall of 2008, pending budgetary approval. Special consideration will be given to applicants with some experience in mathematical neuroscience. This position will include one course per semester teaching. Salary will be $42,000 [...]
Post-doctoral positions at the Center for Adaptive Neural Systems
Post-doctoral positions at the Center for Adaptive Neural Systems, Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona Two post-doctoral positions are currently available at The Center for Adaptive Neural Systems at Arizona State University. These positions are supported by 2 on-going, NIH-funded projects that involve the application of advanced neurotechnology and extensive neuromotor assessment in human subjects with [...]
International Master of Science or PhD in Computational Neuroscience
International Master of Science or PhD in Computational Neuroscience Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany The Berlin University of Technology, the Charité Medical School and the Humboldt University of Berlin solicit applications for an international Master and PhD program in Computational Neuroscience within the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin (http://www.bccn-berlin.de). The Master program [...]
PhD in Computational Neuroscience, University of Manchester
Applications are invited for a PhD position at the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Manchester, UK, starting September 2008. The student will be part of the Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics group, and will work on the project “Cortical information processing by Local Field Potentials and spikes”. Project outline: Local Field Potentials (LFP) [...]
MSc programme in Computational Neuroscience, University of Manchester
MSc programme in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Manchester. Computational Neuroscience represents a new and exciting interdisciplinary field where ideas and methods from Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Biology are synergistically applied to understand brain function. The MSc in Computational Neuroscience at Manchester is designed to enable top students from numerate and biological [...]
Mathematical Neuroscience Meeting, Mar 2008, Edinburgh
Mathematical Neuroscience Meeting Mar 17-19, 2008 Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland First announcement This three-day conference will provide an overview of the current state of research in mathematical approaches to neuroscience, bringing together both physical and life scientists. Drawing together the field in this way will allow for a critical discussion of the relevant [...]
PhD in Complex Dynamical Systems – Cognitive System Theory
PhD-program in Complex Dynamical Systems – Cognitive System Theory Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt am Main, Field(s): cognitive systems, complex systems, neural networks, adaptive dynamical systems, theoretical neuroscience. Application deadline: January 6, 2008 Contact: Prof. Claudius Gros E-mail: secretariate[@]itp.uni-frankfurt.de Address: Institute for Theoretical Physics, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt, Job description: Applications are invited [...]
Results of Election of Authors in Scholarpedia
Scholarpedia – the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia – is conducting election of authors for certain articles with the goal to identify the best living expert to invite to write the articles. The results of five elections are: Dr. Paul J. Werbos elected for “Error Back-Propagation” Dr. Charles F. Stevens elected for “Synapse” Dr. John O’Keefe elected [...]
NSF-FUNDED 3-year POSTDOC POSITION IN MARTINEZ-CONDE LAB
Research in the Martinez-Conde laboratory focuses on the neural bases of visual perception. An NSF-funded 3-year postdoctoral position is available to study the neural correlates of perceptual stability during visual fixation. Please visit our lab’s website at: http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com The ideal candidate will have a strong background in psychophysics and/or computational modeling and/or single-neuron recordings and/or [...]
Ottawa Computational Neuroscience Summer School
2nd COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SUMMER SCHOOL CENTER FOR NEURAL DYNAMICS UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA JUNE 8-20, 2008 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce the 2nd Summer School in Computational Neuroscience, which will be held from Sunday June 8, 2008 until Friday June 20, 2008 inclusively. It is organized by the Center for Neural Dynamics at the [...]
Web Application and Database Developer for neuroinformatics project
The Integrative and Computational Neuroscience Unit (http://www.unic.cnrs-gif.fr/) at the Gif sur Yvette campus of the CNRS, near Paris, France, seeks a highly motivated individual to work on a neuroinformatics project in the context of a pan-European project on brain-inspired computing (http://www.facets-project.org). The project involves development of a database of experimental data from the visual system, [...]
12th International Conference on cognitive and neural systems
This interdisciplinary conference is attended each year by approximately 300 people from 30 countries around the world. As in previous years, the conference will focus on solutions to the questions: HOW DOES THE BRAIN CONTROL BEHAVIOR? HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY EMULATE BIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE? Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/ Sponsored by the [...]
Research Associate position at The University of Sheffield, UK
This is a Research Associate post in mathematical optimization and is part of the CARMEN (Code Analysis, Repository, and Modelling for e-Neuroscience) project. CARMEN project is an e-Science pilot project which started in October 2006, and is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The post at Sheffield will focus on [...]
The Sarah Jane Brain Project Changes Rehabilitation For Children With Brain Injuries
Press Release Using the Principles of Open Source for the First Time, www.TheBrainProject.org Creates New Portal for Parents and Professionals Dealing With Children Suffering From Traumatic Brain Injuries New York, NY – October 22, 2007 – The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation launched the first phase of The Sarah Jane Brain Project through the web portal [...]
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL 4 year PhD Programme The Gatsby Unit is a centre for theoretical neuroscience and machine learning, focusing on unsupervised, semi-supervised and reinforcement learning, neural dynamics, population coding, Bayesian and nonparametric statistics and applications of these to the analysis of perceptual processing, neural data, natural language processing, machine vision and bioinformatics. [...]
Conference December 3-6, 2007, Vancouver Workshop December 7-8, 2007, Whistler NEURO-THURSDAY at NIPS: Thursday, December 6 – 8:30 AM – Noon – Vancouver Thursday, December 6 (the final day of the Conference), will be devoted to Neuroscience,and will consist of a fascinating invited talk by Professor Manabu Tanifuji (Riken) on the monkey visual cortex, plus [...]
Research Position in the Biomagnetic Center, Department of Neurology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany in collaboration with GIPSA-lab, Images and signal Department (DIS ; C. Jutten and R. Sameni) – joint CNRS unit UMR 5216, associated with Grenoble universities, France. The research will be devoted to the study of fetal heart rate [...]
Research associate position in mathematical neuroscience
A research associate position in mathematical and theoretical neuroscience is available in the working group of Eric Shea-Brown at the University of Washington, Department of Applied Mathematics. In addition to research, the postdoctoral fellow will teach two one-quarter applied mathematics courses per year. Information about the department can be found at: http://www.amath.washington.edu. Research topics will [...]
PhD Program in Neural Computation at Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh
The Graduate Program in Neural Computation (PNC) at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh now accepting applications. In recognition of the increased demand for computationally-oriented researchers, Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, last year created this Ph.D. program in computational neuroscience. This program is seeking qualified applicants to begin [...]
Faculty Position in Computational Neuroscience
University of Maryland, College Park Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Computational Neuroscience – Tenure-track faculty The Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program (NACS) at the University of Maryland is seeking a new tenure-track faculty member, at the assistant professor level. Computational neuroscientists working in any areas including sensory and motor physiology, analysis of [...]
Positions in reaction-diffusion modeling of signaling pathways involved in synaptic plasticy
Postdoctoral position in modeling of signaling pathways involved in synaptic plasticy A postdoctoral position is available in the Computational Neuroscience Unit of Dr. Erik De Schutter at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (http://www.irp.oist.jp/cns/) to study the signaling pathways involved in cerebellar long-term depression at the parallel fiber to Purkinje cell synapse. Main goal [...]
January 6-11, 2008 Chamonix – Mont-Blanc, France http://bayesian-cognition.org Rationale: ————– Animals and artificial systems alike are faced with the problem of making inferences about their environments and choosing appropriate responses based on incomplete, uncertain and noisy data. Probabilistic models and algorithms are flourishing in both life sciences and information sciences as ways of understanding the [...]
Swedish Masters Program in Computational and Systems Biology
The School of Computer Science and Communication of KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) wishes to bring to your attention a new Master Program in Computational and Systems Biology, starting in the fall of 2008. The Master Program is of two years, in the Bologna format of European Higher education. A web page with [...]
Postdoctoral position in computational / theoretical neuroscience
Postdoctoral position in computational/theoretical neuroscience Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in computational/theoretical neuroscience, in the lab of Odelia Schwartz at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Our lab employs tools of computational and theoretical neuroscience, to study systems from the neural level through to perception and behavior. For example, [...]
PhD Program in Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
PhD program in complex systems and brain sciences at Florida Atlantic University - PreDoctoral Fellowships, Research & Teaching assistantships The aim of this program is to train scientists who are both mathematically and biologically literate so that they can fully participate in multi-disciplinary research to bring new ways of thinking into neuroscience. Individuals with undergraduate [...]
Web Application and Java Software Developer on neuroinformatics projects associated with human brain imaging
The Center for Brain Science at Harvard University and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital seek a highly motivated individual to work on neuroinformatics projects associated with human brain imaging. Reporting to the Head of Neuroinformatics and working in the Neuroinformatics Research Group, the successful applicant will be responsible for [...]
The Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level in Neural Engineering. Level of appointment depends on qualification. Specific areas of interest include: neuroimaging, neural tissue engineering, neuromorphic engineering, computational neural [...]
This message is to inform you that the CNCC Essay Award for Junior Scholars has been launched. The European Science Foundation offers two essay prizes of € 1.500 each for academic papers related to the topics of the EUROCORES Programme CNCC – Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context. The six finalist papers, including the [...]
PhD position: High resolution quantitative optical imaging of neurometabolic and neurovascular coupling mechanisms
Noninvasive functional neuroimaging tools are widely applied to study the human brain in action. However, the hemodynamic signals of the most extensively used method are still not well understood. This joint EPFL and ETHZ PhD project aims at understanding the quantitative aspects of hemodynamic changes that occur in the brain. For this aim, novel multimodal [...]
Postdoctoral/research associate position in computational neuroscience
Postdoctoral position in non-linear dynamics of memory and active perception
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF MEMORY and ACTIVE PERCEPTION Biologically Inspired Neural & Dynamical Systems (BINDS) Laboratory University of Massachusetts Amherst The postdoc work will be concentrating on: How memories are modified, what other systems take part of it, how can the system benefit from changing memories? These questions are asked from the functional [...]
Faculty positions in Neuroengineering at Drexel University College of Medicine
As part of a university-wide Neuroengineering Initiative, Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM) is seeking to fill new tenure track faculty positions to enhance its ongoing research in neuroengineering. We are looking for individuals whose research focuses on spinal cord studies at the systems or/and cellular level, neural control, brain-machine interfaces, neuroengineering applications for recovery [...]
Two PostDoc or PhD Positions in Robotics and/or Computer Vision
Job Offer: Two PostDoc or PhD Positions (Duration 3 years) At the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) at the University of Göttingen (Germany) there are two Postdoc openings in the fields of Robotics and/or Computer Vision based on neural information processing principles. In our group we are concerned with sensori-motor integration as well as [...]
Scientific Programmer Position at UC Berkeley
The Sommer lab at UC Berkeley seeks a scientific programmer to assume an integral role in the design and maintenance of the Core Services of the new NSF-Initiative Data-Sharing in Neuroscience, hosted at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. Specifically, work involves the design and administration of the data [...]