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The Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at UCSF solicits
applications for pre- and post-doctoral fellowships, with the goal of
bringing theoretical approaches to bear on neuroscience. Applicants
should have a strong background and education in a quantitative field
such as mathematics, theoretical or experimental physics, or computer
science, and commitment to a future research career in
neuroscience. Prior biological or neuroscience training is not
required.
The Sloan-Swartz Center offers opportunities to combine theoretical and
experimental approaches to understanding the operation of the intact
brain. Young scientists with strong theoretical backgrounds will
receive scientific training in experimental approaches to
understanding the operation of the intact brain. They will learn to
integrate their theoretical abilities with these experimental
approaches to form a mature research program in integrative
neuroscience. The research undertaken by the trainees may be
theoretical, experimental, or a combination.
Resident Faculty of or frequent visitors to the Sloan-Swartz Center
and their research interests include:
William Bialek (frequent visitor):
Information-theoretic and statistical
characterization of, and physical limits to,
neural coding and representation
Michael Brainard: Mechanisms underlying vocal learning in the
songbird; sensorimotor adaptation to alteration
of performance-based feedback
Allison Doupe: Development of song recognition and production in
songbirds
Loren Frank: (joining our faculty in summer, 2003): The
relationship between behavior and neural activity
in the hippocampus and anatomically related
cortical areas.
Stephen Lisberger: Learning and memory in a simple motor reflex, the
vestibulo-ocular reflex, and visual guidance of
smooth pursuit eye movements by the cerebral cortex
Michael Merzenich: Experience-dependent plasticity underlying learning
in the adult cerebral cortex, and the neurological
bases of learning disabilities in children
Kenneth Miller: Circuitry of the cerebral cortex: its structure,
self-organization, and computational function (primarily
using cat primary visual cortex as a model system)
Philip Sabes: Sensorimotor coordination, adaptation and
development of spatially guided behaviors,
experience dependent cortical plasticity.
Christoph Schreiner: Cortical mechanisms of perception of complex
sounds such as speech in adults, and plasticity of
speech recognition in children and adults
Michael Stryker: Mechanisms that guide development of the visual
cortex
There are also a number of visiting faculty, including Larry Abbott,
Brandeis University; Sebastian Seung, MIT; David Sparks, Baylor
University; Steve Zucker, Yale University.
TO APPLY for a POSTDOCTORAL position, please send a curriculum vitae,
a statement of previous research and research goals, up to three
relevant publications, and have two letters of recommendation sent to
us.
The application deadline is January 31, 2003.
Send applications to:
Sloan-Swartz Center 2003 Admissions
Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at UCSF
Department of Physiology
University of California
513 Parnassus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94143-0444
PRE-DOCTORAL applicants with strong theoretical training may seek
admission into the UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program as a first-year
student. Applicants seeking such admission must apply by Jan. 3, 2003
to be considered for fall, 2003 admission. Application materials for
the UCSF Neuroscience Program may be obtained from
http://www.ucsf.edu/neurosc/neuro_admissions.html#application or from
Pat Vietch
Neuroscience Graduate Program
Department of Physiology
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94143-0444
neuroscience@phy.ucsf.edu
Be sure to include your surface-mail address. The procedure is: make a
normal application to the UCSF Neuroscience program; but also alert
the Sloan-Swartz Center of your application, by writing to
sloan-info@phy.ucsf.edu.
If you need more information:
-- Consult the Sloan-Swartz Center WWW Home Page:
http://www.sloan.ucsf.edu/sloan
-- Send e-mail to sloan-info@phy.ucsf.edu
-- See also the home page for the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for
Integrative Neuroscience, in which the Sloan-Swartz Center is housed:
http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/
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