Job opportunity

This graduate student position offers full German health and social benefits and is not a scholarship position. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to set up a device to record the spontaneous flight behavior of wildtype, mutant and transgenic Drosophila fruit flies. The digitally recorded behavioral data will then be evaluated using mathematical algorithms (see http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0000443). This project is the first systematic search for the neuronal structures mediating one of the most important brain functions, the generation of adaptive behavioral variability. This project is embedded in a team of researchers studying behavioral variability and feedback-based learning and memory in invertebrates (http://brembs.net). The successful candidate will have a master's, diplom or equivalent degree, ideally with a specialization in genetics and/or neuroscience. Experience in Drosophila handling, breeding and behavior is helpful. Programming experience is
an advantage, as is general computer proficiency. Applications including a CV, a letter of reference and a 500 word description of the applicant's motivation, should be sent electronically to b.brembs@fu-berlin.de until august 31, 2009. Any inquiries should be addressed at Bjoern Brembs at b.brembs@fu-berlin.de.

Contact Information
Dr. Bjoern Brembs
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Inst. Biology, Neurobiology
Koenigin-Luise-Str. 28/30
14195 Berlin
Germany
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E-mail: b.brembs@fu-berlin.de
Website: http://brembs.net