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Fwd:20 positions for PhD students and postdocs at Giessen and Marburg
by Gary Green 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

Dear colleagues, I am forwarding the following information about open job opportunities in Giessen and Marburg on behalf of Karl Gegenfurtner. The P.I.s on projects that involve fMRI are marked by an X in the list. Best wishes, Bianca -- The German Research Council (DFG) has established a Collaborative Research Center (SFB/TRR 135) at the universities of Giessen and Marburg. The scientific goal is to investigate the cardinal mechanisms that underlie perception: prediction, valuation and categorization. Scientists within the research center come from different disciplines ranging from experimental psychology and human movement science to neurophysics and psycholinguistics. We use a vast range of methods including psychophysics, neuroimaging and single unit electrophysiology. The positions are available starting on April 1, 2014 or soon thereafter, and can potentially be held until the end of 2017. If you are interested in a PhD studentship or a PostDoc position, you should contact one of the principal investigators of the grant directly: Jutta Billino (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Aging) X Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (Marburg, Experimental Linguistics, Embodiment) Doris Braun (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Eye movements) X Frank Bremmer (Marburg, Neurophysics, Oculomotor Physiology, Self Motion) Knut Drewing (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Active Touch) X Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer (Marburg, Neurophysics, Ocuolomotor salience) X Katja Fiehler (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Hand and Eye Movements) X Karl Gegenfurtner (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Color Vision, Eye Movements) X Mathias Hegele (Giessen, Human Movement Science, Animacy) Bianca Jovanovic (Giessen, Developmental Psychology, Infant Motor Experience) Christina Kauschke (Marburg, Clinical and Developmental Linguistics, Emotion Words) X Tilo Kircher (Marburg, Psychiatry, Inter-modal Perception) Harald Lachnit (Marburg, Experimental Psychology, Associative Learning) Anna Schubö (Marburg, Cognitive Psychophysiology, Attention, Visual Selection) Alexander Schütz (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Eye Movements and Value) Gudrun Schwarzer (Giessen, Developmental Psychology, Child Face Perception) X Benjamin Straube (Marburg, Psychiatry, Perception of One's Own Actions) X Bianca Wittmann (Giessen, Biological Psychology, Motivational salience) A list of all projects, including links to the P.I.'s web pages can be found at http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/sfb Applicants should have a strong academic training, including a Master's degree in a relevant discipline. Please send a CV and a brief cover letter explaining why you are interested in applying for a position either directly to one of the P.I.s listed above, or to the grant coordinator Karl Gegenfurtner (gegenfurtner(a)uni-giessen.de). Applications should be received by February 14, 2014, but we will consider late applications until all the positions are filled. Karl Gegenfurtner -- Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner, Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie Justus-Liebig-Universität, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10, 35394 Giessen phone: +49 641 9926100 mailto:gegenfurtner@uni-giessen.de fax: +49 641 9926119 http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/karl

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YNiC seminar today
by rem 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

Dear Users This afternoon (4.15 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be talks on 1) "Update on Participant Consent at YNiC" given by Mark Hymers 2) "Feedback from the MEG UK meeting" given by Gary Green. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served afterwards. Best wishes Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Rebecca E. Millman Science Liaison Officer York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park Heslington YO10 5DG Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356

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Garreth Prendergast's farewell seminar 29th January
by rem 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

Dear Users As some of you may already know, Garreth Prendergast is leaving YNiC at the end of this month to become a post-doc at the University of Manchester. Please put *Wednesday 29th January 4-5 pm* in your diaries if you would like to be part of the organised farewell to Garreth. Garreth will be giving his "farewell seminar" on 29th January from 4-5 pm in YNiC. After the seminar we will be taking Garreth out for drinks and dinner to thank him for all his contributions to the department. Please let me know if you would like to join us for dinner. Best wishes Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Rebecca E. Millman Science Liaison Officer York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park Heslington YO10 5DG Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356

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YNiC seminar 23rd January
by rem 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

Dear Users This Thursday (4.15 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be 1) a talk on "Update on Participant Consent at YNiC" given by Mark Hymers and 2) a talk on "Feedback from the MEG UK meeting" given by Gary Green. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served afterwards. Best wishes Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Rebecca E. Millman Science Liaison Officer York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park Heslington YO10 5DG Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356

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Fwd: Two PhD positions at Gothenburg University, Sweden
by Gary Green 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

We are pleased to announce two PhD studentships in medical imaging: Experimental neuroimaging with Focal MEG Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, 4 years if full-time studies Extent: 100 % Location: Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg First day of employment: As agreed Reference number: UR 2014/16 http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-appl… This project targets stress-induced heart disease (SIHD) with an experimental neuroimaging technique: Focal MEG. The PhD student will be involved in the planning and execution of medical research studies that explore the neurophysiological signaling pathways responsible for the spectrum of responses to arousal we have observed in the general population. These arousal responses are rapid—occuring in less than a heartbeat—and strongly correlated with long-term trends in blood pressure and heart disease. State-of-the-art MEG—like the recently installed NatMEG system to which the student will have access—adds the time-dimension to neuroimaging, allowing one to see where, when, and how long brain activity occurs. Our experimental Focal MEG system improves the sensitivity of MEG; this project will help develop and validate this beyond state-of-the-art neurimaging system. Participants in the studies will be recruited from ongo ing studies that are presently led by the supervisory team at the SUH Department of Clinical Neurophysiology. By combining next-gen neuroimaging with groups of subjects that have been well characterized in ongoing studies, we hope to identify a biomarker for SIHD. The PhD student will thus have access to a unique research infrastructure (NatMEG, Focal MEG, as well as standard fMRI, EEG, ECG, etc.) and be supervised by leading clinical and experimental researchers. Not only will the finished PhD be well educated, but he/she will have a solid foundation for a career in testing clinical issues in experimental environments. When this project is completed, we hope to have identified clinically relevant and non-invasive markers that lead to a better understanding of the underlying physiological mechanisms for SIHD. /This PhD position is funded via doctoral grant during the first year and doctoral studentship during the last three years, and leads to a doctoral degree./ Automatic lesion detection in brain images Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, 4 years if full-time studies Extent: 100 % Location: Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg First day of employment: As agreed Reference number: UR 2014/17 http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-appl… A well-established and validated approach to anatomical image segmentation is to use image registration to propagate anatomical labels from multiple atlases to a target (patient) image. We have developed MAPER, a tool that implements this approach for the segmentation of structural magnetic resonance images of the brain. MAPER is currently the most accurate and robust method for segmenting the whole of the human brain into its constituent structures. We have shown its usefulness in particular for measuring markers of neurodegeneration, for example in Alzheimer's disease. The drawback of atlas-based segmentation methods is that some injuries or disease processes lead to the appearance of focal brain lesions (edema, bleeding, tumours, etc.). These are not normally represented in the atlases, and are therefore frequently mislabelled. Addressing this problem will potentially lead to novel applications of automatic image analysis: decision support in the management of stroke, quantitative monitoring of recovery after head injury or brain surgery, objective evaluation of the changes caused by brain tumours and brain cancer treatment, measurement of disease progression in multiple sclerosis, seizure focus identification in epilepsy, and many others. The goal of this project is to develop the capability of automatically detecting and measuring lesions and to validate it on real-world imaging data that we will access through collaborations with clinical experts in the relevant diseases. /This PhD position is funded via doctoral grant during the first year and doctoral studentship during the last three years, and leads to a doctoral degree. -- / Rolf A Heckemann, MD PhD Professor of Medical Imaging and Image Analysis MedTech West <http://www.medtechwest.se> at Sahlgrenska University Hospital University of Gothenburg Sweden

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YNiC seminar today
by rem 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Dear Users This afternoon (4.15 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be a project proposal presentation given by Charlotte Murphy. The title of Charlotte's talk is "Flexible Retrieval and Representation of Amodal Concepts". Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served afterwards. Best wishes Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Rebecca E. Millman Science Liaison Officer York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park Heslington YO10 5DG Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356

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Open Plan
by Mark Hymers 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi, For all of this term, YNiC open plan will be very busy on Thursdays, especially between 11-1 and 2-4. This is because of MSc Cognitive Neuroscience teaching. Non-MSc students can use open plan but will need to be aware that teaching is taking place and please use the machines at the back of the room. MSc students will be given priority on computers. Please make sure that you do not leave yourself logged into machines in open plan as we will forcibly log out users as necessary at the start of the teaching session. Apologies for the late sending of this email. Thanks, Mark -- Mark Hymers, York Neuroimaging Centre Please note that my email address is: mark.hymers(a)ynic.york.ac.uk Responses to messages sent to other addresses may be delayed

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YNiC Science Committee. Monday 20th January, 2pm. B204.
by Michael Simpson 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Dear YNiC users, All YNiC users are invited to attend the next meeting of the YNiC Science Committee, next Monday at 2pm in B204. The committee exists to facilitate scientific work at YNiC by bringing YNiC staff and users together to discuss support issues. Users who would like to raise a particular issue for consideration at this meeting should contact the Chair (Beth Jefferies <beth.jefferies(a)york.ac.uk>) or Secretary (Michael Simpson <michael.simpson(a)ynic.york.ac.uk>) *in advance*, so that the issue can be added to the agenda. With best wishes Beth and Michael -- Dr Michael Simpson Science Liaison Officer York Neuroimaging Centre Innovation Way York YO10 5DG Tel: 01904 567614 Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk

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YNiC seminar 16th January
by rem 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Dear Users This Thursday (4.15 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be a project proposal presentation given by Charlotte Murphy. The title of Charlotte's talk is "Flexible Retrieval and Representation of Amodal Concepts". Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served afterwards. Best wishes Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Rebecca E. Millman Science Liaison Officer York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park Heslington YO10 5DG Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356

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Fwd:Postdoctoral Research Position in Neuroimaging of Eating Disorders
by Gary Green 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

The Eating Disorder Section of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, Germany (Prof. Stefan Ehrlich) invites applications for a postdoc position (full time) in neuroimaging of eating disorders with a focus on computational neuroscience and in close collaboration with the Collaborative Research Centre 940 "Volition and Cognitive Control: Mechanisms, Modulators, and Dysfunctions" http://www.sfb940.de/. Our international and multidisciplinary group conducts basic research in neuroscience at the inter-face to clinical applications. We focus on cognitive control, reward system and the processing of positive and negative emotions in patients with anorexia nervosa. Some of our projects are part of the aforementioned Collaborative Research Centre (CRC, Steering Committee: Profs. T. Goschke, C. Kirschbaum, M. Smolka, A. Strobel, H.-U. Wittchen). Postdoctoral Research Position (f/m) in Neuroimaging of Eating Disorders To further strengthen our lab, we are seeking for a postdoc with some experience in Computational Neuroscience, e.g. model-based analysis of behavioral and MRI data, decoding or machine learning. Responsibilities will also include the coordination of our ongoing clinical research study and the acquisition, preprocessing and analysis of a range of behavioral and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Together with a doctoral student new functional MRI paradigms need to be programmed and implemented. Imaging sessions will take place on the Neuroimaging Center's 3T Siemens TIM-Trio scanner. We routinely collect high-quality structural, diffusion, and functional MRI data. A variety of additional information is also being collected, including neuropsychological and psychiatric scales, physiological (SCR, eye tracking) and endocrinological markers. Summarizing results and writing research articles will be another central aspect of the work. The successful applicant will work in a team of young investigators and also start to supervise doctoral students, interns and medical students working in the project. Thanks to the CRC the applicant will have ample opportunity to work with peers and senior scientists in similar project in the Medical School and the Psychology Department. In addition, the position offers the possibility for further scientific qualification (i.e. Habilitation). Requirements: . Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in any scientific field of study with a strong quantitative background, e.g. mathematics, informatics, statistics, computational neuroscience, biomedical or electrical engineering (with additional qualifications or experience in computational neuroscience a PhD, MD or comparable degree in a relevant field such as psychology, biology, biomedicine, medicine, biophysics or physics may also be sufficient). . Expertise in computational modeling of behavioral and/or imaging data (e.g., Bayesian inference methods and statistics, hidden Markov modeling, machine learning, reinforcement and temporal difference learning or connectivity analyses) . Experience in computer programming (Linux/Unix shell scripting, Python and/or MATLAB) . Some exposure to cognitive and emotional neurosciences . Participation in research activities within the past years . Publications in peer-reviewed journals . Strong organizational skills . Command of some basic German The successful applicant will join a multidisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians, will receive further training and train doctoral students (informally). The Salary will be consistent with levels in accordance with the German Research Foundation (100% TV-L: E 13). Compensation includes health insurance and vacation time. The position is available for a start date as soon as January 20th 2014 (to be confirmed). Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. The position is guaranteed for two to three years with the possibility of renewal after positive evaluation. The funding has been granted for 5 years. To apply you can use our online portal (http://www.uniklinikum-dresden.de/bildung-und-karriere/stellenangebote/wiss… ). The application should include a cover letter detailing professional objectives and interests, CV (with grades and language skills), and the names and email addresses of two references. The application can be written in German or English. The position is open to qualified international applicants. Please refer to our homepage: http://www.kjp-dresden.de/en/content/eating-disorders , http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_mathematik_und_na…, http://www.kjp-dresden.de/en/content/schizophrenia and http://www.kjp-dresden.de/de/basic-page/publikationsliste-prof-dr-s-ehrlich for more detailed information. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Dipl.-Inf. Daniel Geisler Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Bereich Angewandte Entwicklungsneurowissenschaften Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie Fon +49 (0)351 458-7071 Fax +49 (0)351 458-7206 Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus an der Technischen Universität Dresden Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts des Freistaates Sachsen Fetscherstraße 74 (Haus 25, Raum 233A), 01307 Dresden http://www.uniklinikum-dresden.de Vorstand: Prof. Dr. med. D. M. Albrecht (Sprecher), Wilfried E. B. Winzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Prof. Dr. med. Peter C. Scriba USt.-IDNr.: DE 140 135 217, St.-Nr.: 201 145 00020

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