Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Positions in Theoretical Neurobiology

[Ken Miller]

	      POSTDOCTORAL AND PREDOCTORAL POSITIONS
	     SLOAN CENTER FOR THEORETICAL NEUROBIOLOGY
	      UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO

INFORMATION ON THE UCSF SLOAN CENTER AND FACULTY AND THE POSTDOCTORAL
AND PREDOCTORAL POSITIONS IS AVAILABLE THROUGH OUR WWW SITE:
http://www.sloan.ucsf.edu/sloan.  E-mail inquiries should be sent to
sloan-info at phy.ucsf.edu.  Below is basic information on the program:

The Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at UCSF solicits
applications for pre- and post-doctoral fellowships, with the goal of
bringing theoretical approaches to bear on neuroscience.  Applicants
should have a strong background and education in a theoretical
discipline, such as physics, mathematics, or computer science, and
commitment to a future research career in neuroscience.  Prior
biological or neuroscience training is not required.  The Sloan Center
will offer opportunities to combine theoretical and experimental
approaches to understanding the operation of the intact brain.  The
research undertaken by the trainees may be theoretical, experimental,
or a combination.

The RESIDENT FACULTY of the Sloan Center and their research interests
are:

Allison Doupe: Development of song recognition and production in songbirds.
Stephen Lisberger: Learning and memory in a simple motor reflex, the
	vestibulo-ocular reflex, and visual guidance of smooth
	pursuit eye movements by the cerebral cortex.
Michael Merzenich: Experience-dependent plasticity underlying learning
	in the adult cerebral cortex and the neurological
	bases of learning disabilities in children.
Kenneth Miller: Mechanisms of self-organization of the cerebral cortex;
	circuitry and computational mechanisms underlying cortical
	function; computational neuroscience.
Roger Nicoll: Synaptic and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory
	in the hippocampus.
Christoph Schreiner: Cortical mechanisms of perception of complex
	sounds such as speech in adults, and plasticity of speech
	recognition in children and adults.
Michael Stryker: Mechanisms that guide development of the visual cortex.

All of these resident faculty are members of UCSF's W.M. Keck
Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience, a new center (opened
January, 1994) for systems neuroscience that includes extensive shared
research resources within a newly renovated space designed to promote
interaction and collaboration.  The unusually collaborative and
interactive nature of the Keck Center will facilitate the training of
theorists in a variety of approaches to systems neuroscience.

In addition to the resident faculty, there are a series of VISITING
FACULTY who are in residence at UCSF for times ranging from 1-8 weeks
each year.  These faculty, and their research interests, include:

Laurence Abbott, Brandeis University: Neural coding, relations between 
	firing rate models and biophysical models, self-organization
	at the cellular level
William Bialek,	NEC Research Institute: Physical limits to sensory
	signal processing, reliability and information capacity in 
	neural coding;
Sebastian Seung, ATT Bell Labs: models of collective computation in 
	neural systems;
David Sparks, University of Pennsylvania: understanding the
	superior colliculus as a "model cortex" that guides eye
	movements;
Steven Zucker, McGill University: Neurally based models of vision,
	visual psychophysics, mathematical characterization of 
	neuroanatomical complexity.

PREDOCTORAL applicants with strong theoretical training seeking to
BEGIN a Ph.D. program should apply directly to the UCSF Neuroscience
Ph.D. program.  Contact Patricia Arrandale, patricia at phy.ucsf.edu, to
obtain application materials; be sure to include your surface-mail
address.  The APPLICATION DEADLINE for Sloan Center applicants is
Feb. 10, 1997 for fall, 1997 admission.  Sloan Center applicants must
also alert the Sloan Center of your application, by writing to Steve
Lisberger at the address given below.

POSTDOCTORAL applicants, or PREDOCTORAL applicants seeking to do
research at the Sloan Center as part of a Ph.D. program in progress in a
theoretical discipline elsewhere, should apply as follows:
	Send a curriculum vitae, a statement of previous research and
research goals, up to three relevant publications, and have two
letters of recommendation sent to us. THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS
February 10, 1997.  UC San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity
Employer. Send applications to:

Steve Lisberger
Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at UCSF
Department of Physiology
University of California
513 Parnassus Ave.
San Francisco, CA  94143-0444