You will be responsible for recruiting and supporting new projects, from contacting potential clinical users (physicians) and industrial partners to setting up 7T MRI protocols and supporting ongoing external projects. The emphasis is on clinical (diagnostic) applications of the 7T MRI but also includes 3T MRI and contacts with academic, pharmaceutical and industrial customers.
The project combines a unique combination of cutting-edge experimental approaches, including 256-channel-high-density EEG sleep recordings combined with controlled sensory stimulations and serial awakening paradigms. The candidate will work in the newly created laboratory of Francesca Siclari, senior group leader, whose research focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms of dreams. This project is funded by the EU ERC project Dreamscape.
Have you always been fascinated by the visual system? Are you interested in basic neuroscience research, and solving complex problems that may lead to clinically relevant solutions? Are you interested in working in a multidisciplinary, highly collaborative research group? Do you want to contribute to an ambitious project at the cutting edge of the field?
A computational biologist/bioinformatician position is available in the Neurogenesis & Neurodegeneration group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam. The Neurogenesis & Neurodegeneration laboratory led by Dr. Evgenia Salta employs transcriptomics and other molecular and imaging approaches to map the cellular and molecular complexity of the adult hippocampal neurogenic niche and dissect the biological pathways that are deregulated in Alzheimer’s disease.
The Social Brain Lab, has pioneered the investigation of the mechanisms of empathy and prosocial behaviour by combining rodent and human research. We are currently looking for an ambitious computational-neuroscience postdoc that will lead the effort to use behavioural and imaging data to study the link between embodied processes and social decision-making.
A postdoc position is available in the Vision & Cognition group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam. The aim is to understand visual perception and plasticity elicited by electrical stimulation of the visual cortex in mice, with the ultimate aim to create a visual cortical prosthesis to restore a rudimentary form of vision for the blind.
Visual information that enters our eyes is immediately relayed to the brain. From there on, it is processed extensively. Our lab uses fMRI and psychophysics to increase our understanding of the visual system, for example using the population receptive field (pRF) method (Dumoulin & Wandell, 2008).
In this internship, you will use the newly developed linescanning technique to visualise functional responses as a function of cortical depth, using the 7T system at the Spinoza Centre.
A postdoc position is available in the Vision & Cognition group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam. The aim is to understand visual perception and plasticity elicited by electrical stimulation of the visual cortex in mice, with the ultimate aim to create a visual cortical prosthesis to restore a rudimentary form of vision for the blind.
You will assist in in conducting behavioral experiments with rodents, sectioning and staining brains slices, conducting brain measurements and brain manipulations in behaving rodents.
The student will assist the research team in conducting behavioral experiments with rodents, sectioning and staining brains slices, manufacturing electrodes/optic fibers, conducting brain measurements and brain manipulations in behaving rodents.
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