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 [ à ] Leeds.ac.uk) with a CV.