[visionlist] post-doc in Computational Visual Neuroscience

[Wyeth Bair]

Dear Vision Science,
Below is an ad for  a post-doc at Oxford University, UK, in computational
visual neuroscience.
Sincerely,
Wyeth Bair

A vacancy exists for a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in computational
neuroscience to model neural circuits and neural coding in the visual
system.  The post is for 3 years in the first instance and will be funded
by the Wellcome Trust.

The general aim of this work is to advance our understanding of neural
coding and neural circuitry by developing a flexible, modular, and
biophysically plausible model of the responses of major
physiologically-defined cell types in the visual cortex.  The modelling
will be guided by a set of principles designed to ensure that the model
remains flexible and generally useful.  Our goal is to build a model that
operates on arbitrary time-varying visual stimuli and that accounts for
the predominant spatio-temporal adaptive properties of receptive fields in
the visual cortex.  We will focus on responses in V1 and those in the
cortical motion area V5/MT.  We aim to create an online modelling
framework that will allow scientists to submit arbitrary stimuli to our
models and to receive output for various cell types in the form of spike
trains.  Expertise is required in computational modeling and experience
with single-neuron or network modelling would be beneficial.  This
position is part of a project that is tightly coupled with experimental
approaches; therefore, there will be ample opportunity to propose and
immediately carry out novel experiments in the visual cortex to directly
test predictions from the modelling.

Further particulars and details of how to apply are available from
reference at physiol.ox.ac.uk or by telephoning 01865 272465.  Please quote
reference number AS06/014.

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