Connectionists: 5 Positions Available

[Geoffrey Goodhill]

5 POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE / AXON 
GUIDANCE

My lab recently moved from Georgetown University to the 
University of
Queensland, Australia, and five positions are now 
available:

- 2 postdoc positions in the area of the computational 
modelling of
visual cortical map development.  One of these positions 
is for a
collaboration with Kwabena Boahen, Matt Dalva and Marcos 
Frank at the
University of Pennsylvania.

- 1 postdoc and 1 research faculty position in the area of
axon guidance. These would suit people with broad 
backgrounds
in tissue culture, immunohistochemistry and small animal 
surgery.

- 1 research assistant position to provide computational 
support
for the above projects.

According to http://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings the 
University of
Queensland is one of the top 50 universities in the world, 
on a par
with Edinburgh in the UK and Duke in the US. It provides 
an excellent
environment for interdisciplinary research, and is 
currently investing
AU$200M in the general area of Biotechnology. This 
includes AU$50M for
a new neuroscience institute, http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au, 
for which a
new 7000sqm building is currently under construction. UQ 
is in
Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, a cosmopolitan city 
of 1.5
million people with excellent facilities, a vibrant 
cultural
environment, and a subtropical climate. Queensland is also 
home to
attractions such as tropical rainforests and the Great 
Barrier
Reef. Australia was recently ranked by the United Nations 
in the top 5
countries in the world to live 
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2149799.stm).

Informal enquiries are welcome, but to be formally 
considered you must
respond by the closing date of August 5th to one of the 
job adverts
posted at http://www.uq.edu.au/staff - click on "browse" 
and then
scroll to the jobs posted on July 11th. More details of 
these
positions and the skills required for each are also 
provided here.
More information about the lab can be found at 
www.goodhill.org, and
some recent publications are listed below.

Thanks,

Geoffrey J Goodhill, PhD
Associate Professor
Queensland Brain Institute and Department of Mathematics
University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Phone: +61 7 3346 2612
Fax:   +61 7 3346 8836
Email: goodhill at uq.edu.au

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Rosoff et al (2004). A new chemotaxis assay shows the 
extreme
sensitivity of axons to molecular gradients. Nature 
Neuroscience, 7,
678-682.

Goodhill et al (2004). Predicting axonal response to 
molecular
gradients with a computational model of filopodial 
dynamics. Neural
Computation, 16, 2221-2243.

Carreira-Perpinan & Goodhill (2004). The influence of 
lateral
connections on the structure of cortical maps. Journal of
Neurophysiology, 92, 2947-2959.

Carreira-Perpinan et al (2005). A computational model for 
the
development of multiple maps in primary visual cortex. 
Cerebral
Cortex, in press.

Goodhill & Xu (2005).  The development of retinotectal 
maps: a review
of models. Network, in press.

Rosoff et al (2005). Generating controlled molecular 
gradients in 3D
gels. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, in press.