Connectionists: PhD Studentships & Postdoc Fellowship in Modeling Animal Behavior

[Netta Cohen]

Modeling Animal Behavior:

Three PhD Studentships and One Postdoctoral Fellowship

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research fellowship and
for three PhD studentships to study animal behavior. The team will
have complementary expertise across biology, engineering and
mathematical/computational modeling to study sensory-motor control
(including sensory responses, learning and memory, and locomotion) in
the nematode worm C. elegans. Candidates with an excellent track
record in a relevant area of research, including but not limited to:
neuroscience/neurobiology, animal behavior, physics, computer
science/machine vision, electrical or mechanical engineering are
encouraged to apply.

Specific projects will be chosen from the scope and remit of the
project, which spans

1) Mathematical/computational modeling of neural circuits and
integrated neuro-mechanical control

2) Machine vision and engineering for cutting edge real time
tracking of worm locomotion and offline image analysis

3) Biological experiments, including behavioral assays, imaging
and optogenetics and molecular biology.

For further details see
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/netta/vacancies.html.

Informal enquiries:
Please contact Netta Cohen (N.Cohen at Leeds.ac.uk) with a CV.