Dear Users
Tomorrow, the 20th of November, the connectivity club will be meeting at
4pm in BO20 in Psychology. This is instead of the normal ynic seminar.
The connectivity club is basically a gang of individuals from around the
university who meet from time to time to talk about... brain
connectivity. It is very informal, it varies from being a journal paper
discussion to discussing potential experiments and sometimes improbable
grant applications.
Tomorrow Miles Whittington and I are talking about canonical
microcircuits, dynamic causal modelling and connectivity. This is a
discussion about how we might overcome the shortcomings of DCM and move
towards a more practical, biophysically plausible, way of dealing with
connectivity in MEG. It is a preliminary discussion before planning a
large scale MEG data collection exercise. It is not a seminar about a
previous finished study.
All are welcome. There will be refreshments afterwards followed by an
informal discussion in the Derramore.
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre &
Centre for Hyperpolarisation in Magnetic Resonance
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
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PA : Jill Hurst
tel +44 (0) 1904 435329
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
Jill.Hurst(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Post-Doctoral Fellow Position:
Applications are currently being invited for a Post-Doctoral Fellow
position available in the Computational Neuroimaging Lab (CNL;
http://computational-neuroimaging-lab.org) at the Child Mind Institute,
under the direction of Cameron Craddock, PhD. The overarching goal of
the CNL’s research is the identification of objective imaging-based
markers of pathology to facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of
psychiatric illness. The primary responsibility of this position is to
develop novel analytical methods that integrate information from a
variety of imaging modalities (resting state and task fMRI, real-time
fMRI, EEG, DTI, structural MRI), with brain stimulation techniques
(tDCS, tACS, TMS), and phenotypic variables for the characterization of
brain development and function in clinical and non-clinical populations.
To facilitate their research, fellows will work as a part of a highly
collaborative and multidisciplinary team that integrates a broad range
of disparate specialties (e.g. cognitive neuroscience, clinical
psychology, computer science, engineering, mathematics).
Responsibilities:
• Large-scale analysis of fMRI, simultaneous EEG/fMRI, DTI and
structural neuroimaging data.
• Develop and maintain open source software tools for preprocessing,
analyzing, and curating neuroimaging data.
• Author manuscripts and presentations describing accomplished research.
• Supervise junior level researchers and graduate students.
Qualifications:
• PhD in biomedical engineering, cognitive science, electrical
engineering, mathematics, or physics.
• Significant prior neuroimaging experience with MRI, with strong skills
in preprocessing and analyzing neuroimaging data using one or more of
the common neuroimaging packages (e.g., AFNI, FSL, Freesurfer, Diffusion
Toolbkit, or SPM).
• Programming experience in C/C++, Matlab, Python, and similar platforms.
• Motivated self-starter with great attitude and flexibility.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
Salary and Anticipated Start Date:
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience/educational
qualifications. Benefits include health, vision, and dental.
Anticipated Start Date is immediate.
Application details:
Please email cameron.craddock(a)childmind.org to apply, please include a
CV including the names of 3 references with your inquiry.
Employment at Will Relationship: This position description does not
constitute a guarantee that employment will continue for any specified
period of time. Rather, employment is at the mutual consent of the
employee and CMI, and can be terminated at will by the employee or by CMI.
CMI reserves the right to modify the job description and/or reporting
relationship at any time.
CMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CMI is committed to recruiting and
maintaining a diverse staff; individuals from all backgrounds are
strongly encouraged to apply.
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Cameron Craddock, PhD
Director of Imaging, Center for the Developing Brain
Child Mind Institute
childmind.org
445 Park Avenue (entrance on 56th Street)
New York, NY 10022
Director, Computational Neuroimaging Laboratory
Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
www.rfmh.org/nki
1040 Old Orangeburg Road
Orangeburg, NY, 10962
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Research Assistant Position:
Applications are currently being invited for a Research Assistant
position available in the Computational Neuroimaging Lab
(http://computational-neuroimaging-lab.org) at the Child Mind Institute,
under the direction of Cameron Craddock, PhD. Responsibilities will
include developing open source software to implement algorithms for data
analysis and preprocessing, data-base management, imaging quality
control, data-analysis, and assisting with coordinating data-sharing
initiatives. Applicants should have a B.S. in electrical engineering,
biomedical engineering, computer science, or other related scientific
fields. The ideal candidates will have prior research experience, strong
interpersonal skills, strong written and oral communication, the ability
to work as a member of a team as well as independently, and a keen
interest in neuroscience.
Qualifications:
• B.S./B.E. in electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, computer
science, or other related scientific fields.
• Strong programming skills in C, C++, Python, Matlab, or similar languages.
• Prior research experience (preferred).
Salary and Anticipated Start Date:
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience/educational
qualifications. Benefits include health, vision, and dental.
Anticipated Start Date is immediate.
Application details:
Please email cameron.craddock(a)childmind.org to apply, please include a
CV including the names of 3 references with your inquiry.
Employment at Will Relationship: This position description does not
constitute a guarantee that employment will continue for any specified
period of time. Rather, employment is at the mutual consent of the
employee and CMI, and can be terminated at will by the employee or by CMI.
CMI reserves the right to modify the job description and/or reporting
relationship at any time.
CMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CMI is committed to recruiting and
maintaining a diverse staff; individuals from all backgrounds are
strongly encouraged to apply.
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Cameron Craddock, PhD
Director of Imaging, Center for the Developing Brain
Child Mind Institute
childmind.org
445 Park Avenue (entrance on 56th Street)
New York, NY 10022
Director, Computational Neuroimaging Laboratory
Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
www.rfmh.org/nki
1040 Old Orangeburg Road
Orangeburg, NY, 10962
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Post-doctoral and PhD positions in Cognitive Neuroscience and
Psychology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/473399-phd-positions-in-cogni…http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/473397-post-doctoral-position…
The Faculty of Psychology, Higher School of Economics (HSE, Moscow) is
pleased to announce a number of new post-doctoral and PhD posts at
Cognitive Control, Communication and Perception Laboratory
(http://www.hse.ru/en/cdm-centre/CCCP). The post holders will have an
advantage of being able to further define and expand the laboratoryâs
research programme. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
neural dynamics of language comprehension and production, automaticity
and top-down control in communication, sensory-motor integration in
cognitive functions, embodied cognition, neurocognitive bases of
numeracy, interactions between domain-specific and domain-general
cognitive systems, neurobiological mechanisms of language acquisition,
studies of communication deficits (e.g. aphasia) etc.
The laboratory is a structural part of the HSEâs Centre for Cognition
& Decision Making (http://www.hse.ru/en/cdm-centre) with ample
collaboration opportunities within the Centre with other research
groups, both within Russia and internationally. Research facilities
include multi-channel EEG, navigated TMS-EEG, behavioural and
eye-tracking equipment, as well as local access to MEG, fMRI and a range
of neurological populations. This new international lab will operate in
tight collaboration with the Centre of Functionally Integrative
Neuroscience at Aarhus University (Denmark), Psychology Department at
Northumbria University Newcastle (UK), and other international
collaborators.
The HSE is a young, dynamic and fast-growing research-intensive
university providing unique research opportunities (http://hse.ru/en,Âhttp://psy.hse.ru/en). The Faculty of Psychology is committed to
developing various areas of modern experimental psychology and, most
crucially, Cognitive Neuroscience. Working conditions:
- Access to multimodal neuroimaging facilities (brain-navigated TMS,
multi-channel EGG, MEG, eye-tracking, etc. http://psy.hse.ru/en/res-center)
- Internationally competitive salary, 13% flat income tax rate and other
benefits
- Generous travel support and research grants provided by the
Universityâs Centre for Advanced Studies (www.cas.hse.ru
<http://www.cas.hse.ru/>)
- Low teaching load, minimal administrative service required
- Heavy emphasis on high quality research
Requirements
For post-doc posts:
- Ph.D. in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, language sciences or
related fields
- Fluent English (knowledge of Russian is not required)
- Demonstrated ability and high motivation to conduct high-quality
research publishable in quality international peer-reviewed journals
For PhD students:
- Master or similar degree in psychology, cognitive neuroscience,
language sciences or related fields
- Fluent English (knowledge of Russian is not required)
- High motivation to conduct high-quality interdisciplinary research in
international settings
Staff appointments are made for an initial 2,5-year period. Upon
successful completion of an interim review contracts are normally
extended for three more years, ultimately leading up to the tenure
review. PhD posts are funded for a fixed term of 3 years. Please provide
your CV, a minimum of 2 recommendation letters, a statement of research
interest, and an example of a recent research paper. All materials
should be addressed to CCCPGroup(a)hse.ru <mailto:CCCPGroup@hse.ru> and
be submitted by December 3, 2014. Note that only shortlisted candidates
will be notified of the selection process outcome.
If you have any further questions, please contact Dr Victoria Moiseeva
at vmoiseeva(a)hse.ru <mailto:vmoiseeva@hse.ru>
Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting)
The Wellcome Trust has recently invested £1M at the University of
Exeter, which alongside substantial institutional matched-funding will
be used to establish the Centre for Biomedical Modelling and Analysis.
The first part of this investment will be the recruitment of 5
outstanding research fellows whose expertise spans one or more of the
following key areas:
- spatio-temporal modelling,
- complex networks,
- algorithm design and parallel architectures,
- data analytics and visualisation,
- optical microscopy and image analysis,
- high throughput –omics,
- causal modelling of observational data and uncertainty quantification.
For full details of the Fellowships and how to apply, please visit the
following advert:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJZ675/research-fellows/
All the best
John
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John R. Terry
Professor of Biomedical Modelling
Director of Research (Mathematics and Computer Science)
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences
University of Exeter
Exeter, Devon
EX4 4QF, UK
tel: +44 (0) 1392 725 274
email: j.terry(a)exeter.ac.uk <mailto:j.terry@exeter.ac.uk>
web: http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/mathematics/staff/jt354
A 4 year post-doctoral research associate position is available to work
on a European Council-funded project that will use psychophysics, eye
tracking and EEG to investigate auditory attention. We aim to understand
the brain mechanisms involved in selective attention, and create a
brain-machine interface able to identify listeners attentional focus in
real time. This research program is part of an international project
(“Cognitively controlled Hearing Aid”) which includes partners in ENS,
France (Shihab Shamma, Alain de Cheveigne, Daniel Pressnitzer), DTU,
Denmark (Torsten Dau), UZH, Switzerland (Shih-Chii Liu) and Oticon
(Thomas Lunner) .
You will be supervised by Dr Maria Chait and based at the UCL Ear
Institute (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research/chaitlab).
*Salary (inclusive of London allowance)*£33,353 - £37,152 per annum
Applicants should hold a PhD degree (or equivalent)^in an engineering or
Neuroscience-related subject and have substantial experience in digital
signal processing and computer programming. Previous experience with
auditory research and/or functional brain imaging is desirable.
*For an informal discussion please contact Dr. Maria Chait
(m.chait(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk>). Application should be
made via the UCL website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/
(**Ref:1443980). Application deadline: 07 Dec 2014. Start date: Early
2015.***
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The UCL Ear Institute provides state-of-the-art research facilities
across a wide range of disciplines and is one of the foremost centres
for hearing, speech and language-related research within Europe.
Maria Chait PhD
m.chait(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk>
Reader in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
Lab site: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research/chaitlab/
UCL Ear Institute
332 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8EE
Applications are invited for PhD candidates to contribute substantially
to the German-Japanese cooperation project â??Testing computational
models of learning from social, real, and fictive feedback in human and
nonhuman primatesâ??, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and
the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). Principal investigators:
Prof. Dr. Markus Ullsperger (OvGU Magdeburg) and Prof. Dr. Masaki Isoda
(Kansai Medical University, Osaka). The collaboration of both research
groups shall be fostered by research visits in the partner labs.
The project is embedded in Prof. Ullspergerâ??s labâ??s general research
line. The team is multidisciplinary and combines a broad variety of
cognitive neuroscience methods. The Department of Neuropsychology and
Magdeburg in general offer cognitive neuroscientists a unique,
multidisciplinary working and learning environment with opportunities
for developing expertise in a diversity of research areas and
techniques. Four MRI scanners (7T, 3T), several (MR-compatible) EEG
systems, an MEG system, TMS and high-performance computational
facilities are available.
Please find complete description here:
http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/unimagdeburg_media/Stellenausschreibungen/2014/…
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*Dr. Roland Nigbur (Dipl.-Psych.)*
Institut für Psychologie II / Neuropsychologie
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Universitätsplatz 2, G24-Raum 004
39106 Magdeburg
Tel.: +49 (0)391 67 18698
Fax: +49 (0)391 67 11947
Post doc position available in neuroergonomics. Please see the job
description at:
https://jobs.gmu.edu/postings/34303
for more details or contact Carryl Baldwin at the address below.
Carryl Baldwin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Human Factors and Applied Cognition
Associate Chair of Undergraduate Programs
Department of Psychology, MS 3 F5
David King Hall, Room 2062
George Mason University
Fairfax, VAÂ 22030
(703) 993-4653
cbaldwi4(a)gmu.edu <mailto:cbaldwi4@gmu.edu>
http://psychology.gmu.edu/people/cbaldwi4
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opening in Functional Neuroimaging, Development and ADHD
We are recruiting for a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in functional brain imaging in the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) group at the University of California, Davis MIND Institute. The MIND Institute is located on the medical school campus in Sacramento, CA. The position is available starting December 1, 2014.
The focus of the ADHD program is to improve the lives of children, teens and adults who experience severe problems in attention, self-control or learning. While much of our work is in ADHD, we also study typical brain development, autism, fragile X, substance use disorders and general functioning in relationship to reward
sensitivity.
This position is based at UC Davis, however, it is jointly supervised by Dr. Samuel McClure, from the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, at Stanford University along
with Drs. Catherine Fassbender and Julie Schweitzer at UC Davis.
The successful candidate will work on existing and new studies investigating the behavioral and neural correlates of cognitive and reward processing, including the
developmental trajectories of these constructs in children, adolescents and adults with ADHD compared to typically developing individuals. In our laboratory we are
also interested in the functional outcomes in individuals with ADHD (i.e. educational and/or occupational success). The laboratory draws on multiple methods of inquiry including clinical interviews, fMRI, psychophysiological measures, questionnaires and behavior.
The position entails the collection and analysis of fMRI. physiological and behavioral data, preparing the data for publication and presentation at research conferences as well as writing grants and research papers. Additional opportunities such as acquiring and analyzing electrophysiological data are also available but not necessary for the position. Other duties will include gathering questionnaire data and supervising research assistants and graduate and undergraduate students.
Qualifications for this position include a Ph.D. in psychology, neuroscience, or a related field; experience with fMRI acquisition and analysis; competent experimental and statistical skills; good interpersonal skills, the ability to work well in a team and to interact with and train other research personnel and the ability to creatively problem solve and trouble shoot technical issues. Experience with neuroimaging software programs (AFNI, FSL, MATLAB, SPM, or other relevant programs), programming tasks (E-prime, Presentation), and statistical analysis (SPM, SAS) is highly desired. Computer programming skills are also desired but not required for the position.
Please address questions or send a letter of research interests, a CV and contact information for three references to Dr. Julie Schweitzer at Julie.schweitzer(a)ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.
Dear Users
This afternoon (from 4 pm in B020) Alex Levine will give a talk on "The
neural basis of visual performance advantage in the deaf". This project
was offered as an MSc CN research project last year by Heidi Baseler.
Alex graduated from the MSc CN course and is now a 2nd year PhD student
in the Department.
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be available after
the talk.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
