[vslist] Postdoctoral Position in Retinal Neurophysiology - Amsterdam

[Maarten Kamermans]

Postdoctoral Position in Retina Neurophysiology – Amsterdam

A postdoctoral position is available in a joined project of Dr. M. Kamermans
(the Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute; Amsterdam; The Netherlands
and Dr. H. van Hateren (University of Groningen; The Netherlands). This
project is part of the ongoing research programs in both participating
institutes, which strive to: 1) develop a quantitative understanding of the
first processing steps in the visual system and 2) understand neural
processing of natural stimuli. The purpose of the present project is to
clarify the role of the outer retinal neuronal circuitry in the coding of
information in the vertebrate retina, in particular the retina of the
goldfish and zebrafish. In the project the statistics of visual stimuli as
normally encountered by the retina will be investigated, and used to
investigate the coding of information at the photoreceptor-horizontal
cell-bipolar cell level. Naturalistic stimuli will be presented to the
retina for developing good models both of the function and of the physiology
of the circuit. The final goal is to obtain a quantitative understanding of
the signal coding schemes in the outer retina. For this part of the project
the technical approach mainly include patch-clamp recording of retinal
neurons and computer simulations.

The ideal candidate will have his/her PhD in
neuroscience/electrophysiology/computational neuroscience. He/she will work
in a multidisciplinary research group, which is located in the Netherlands
Ophthalmic Research Institute in Amsterdam. The Netherlands Ophthalmic
Research Institute is a research institute funded by the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and is dedicated to fundamental research
of the visual system. This position is available for three years and is
funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research via the
program FOM-ALW program Physical Biology-2.

Interested candidates may send their C.V. and two letters of recommendation
to Dr. M. Kamermans, Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute, Retinal
Signal Processing Group, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Informal inquiries are also welcome by email:
m.kamermans@ioi.knaw.nl; phone: +31 (20) 566 5180 or fax: +31 (20) 566 6121;
Information about the research group can be found on:
www.ioi.knaw.nl/~kamermans