Postdoctoral Scientist - Schulze Lab
The Schulze Lab at HHMI Janelia seeks a postdoctoral scientist spanning systems neuroscience, computer vision, pose tracking, behavioral machine learning, and virtual reality. The researcher will build closed-loop paradigms and brain-behavior maps to study collective behavior, social cognition, individuality, sex differences, and stress in Danionella fish.
Research Associate I - In Vivo Electrophysiology and Behavior
The Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics seeks a Research Associate I to record thousands of neurons across brain regions while mice perform cognitive and foraging tasks. The role uses Neuropixels electrophysiology, optogenetics, optical physiology, rodent behavior, histology, and data-quality analysis within a collaborative brain-wide-circuit programme.
Visualizing the multi-scale complexity of the brain
The brain is complex over multiple length-scales, from many protein molecules forming intricate nano-machines in a synapse to many neurons forming interconnected networks across the brain. Unraveling this multi-scale complexity is fundamental to our understanding of brain function and disease. In this lecture, I will introduce advances in visualizing the complex, multi-scale structures in the brain. Emphasis will be on new imaging techniques, including cryo electron tomography and correlative light-electron microscopy that enabled revealing in situ organization of synaptic molecules, and ultra-high speed volumetric imaging method VISoR developed to map brain-wide circuits at subcellular resolution. I will also discuss challenges and opportunities for interdisciplinary research collaboration to analyze and understand the enormous data generated by these cutting-edge technologies.