Job opening: postdoc doing synaptic tagging at Edinburgh
(note: the email says “expected start date Nov 1″, implying that it is too late to apply, but the email was sent only on Oct 5, and van Rossum’s web page says that the position will start after summer — so who knows)
We invite applications for a 2.5 years HFSP funded postdoctoral
fellowship to
work on theoretical and computational models of plasticity.
The subject is synaptic tagging and capture (Frey and Morris ‘97).
The project
is a HFSP collaboration with 3 experimental labs (Haruhiko Bito in
Tokyo,
Tobias Bonhoeffer in Munich and Richard Morris in Edinburgh). This
part
of the project aims to develop models for synaptic tagging both on a
biophysical and computational level, quantify the experimental
findings, and
generate hypotheses for the experimental labs.
Applicants should have a strong background in mathematics, physics,
computer
science, or computational neuroscience and have a commitment to a
future
research career in neuroscience.
The fellowship allows for top class research in a stimulating
environment.
Edinburgh is one of the leading centers in the UK for Comp
Neuroscience. It
provides a large, active community in computational neuroscience
with strong
links with the neuroscience research groups in Edinburgh and the
project
partners. Edinburgh has been voted as ‘best place to live in Britain’.
The expected starting data is Nov 1st, but could be adjusted to be
later.
To apply please send cover letter, CV, representative papers and 2
letters of
recommendation to Pat Ferguson, Rm D10, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh
EH1 2QL, UK
or email to (email omitted but see http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Patricia_Ferguson.html) with subject “hfsp”.
Inquiries can be addressed to Mark van Rossum mvanross
Weblinks: homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mvanross, www.anc.ed.ac.uk