How do neural circuits generate flexible, cognitive behaviours? The Duan and @jerlich labs are looking for 2️⃣ excellent postdoctoral research fellows to join the team. Check out the vacancies and apply by 25 May: https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/current-vacancies#research-fellow-senior-research-fellow-two-posts
!! come join us as a group leader !! we have 2 lectureships just opened for applications in our department at UCL! Join one of the best, the most exciting and most friendly neuroscience departments! https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=8470&nPostingTargetId=20780&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=ext #neuroscience #jobs #london
A-mazing.
"A robot-rodent interaction arena with adjustable spatial complexity for ethologically relevant behavioral studies"
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)01682-0
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/43/48/8074
Open Peer Review at J Neurosci!
There 1 week to apply for the PhD studentship in my lab (4 years, paid as an RA, fees at UK rate) to contribute to understanding how the brain constructs auditory space. shorturl.at/adoJN
Post will require great coding skills so background in engineering, datasciences or neuroscience is ideal!
In press! 📣 The surprising result that basolateral amygdala has a more crucial role in learning meaningful changes in the reward environment than orbitofrontal cortex. Check our paper to find out how! 🤓 #neuroscience #CompNeuro https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2023/11/13/JNEUROSCI.0622-23.2023
Anyone coming to #sfn? Come along to our @brainglobe poster on Wednesday afternoon, or get in touch to chat about BrainGlobe or any of our other projects (neuroinformatics.dev).
Do you want to do a postdoc in London at the fabulous @SWC_Neuro ?
Do you have expertise in rodent behavior, neurophysiology and/or imaging?
Are you interested in economics? decision-making? Multiplayer games?
Get in touch! I will be at SFN and would love to come to your poster/talk.
#sfn #neuroscience #postdoc #SocietyForNeuroscience #SFN2023
https://erlichlab.org
https://sainsburywellcome.org
please boost and forward to anyone who might be interested.
#Nature Neural signal propagation atlas of Caenorhabditis elegans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06683-4 "23,433 pairs of neurons across the head of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Signal propagation differs from model predictions that are based on anatomy. Extrasynaptic signalling not visible from anatomy contributes to this difference. Extrasynaptically released neuropeptides serve a similar function to that of classical neurotransmitters. Both synaptic and extrasynaptic signalling drive neural dynamics on short timescales."
Jonny Lovelace, Jingrui Ma, ... and Vinny Augustine discovered the vagal pathway underlying fainting, really exciting work, summarized here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03450-3 , full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06680-7 (I helped a little w/ neural analyses)
When the mouse faints, its eyes roll back and most neurons across the brain *shut off completely* (at yellow line in first figure, shows one example #neuropixels recording). But neurons in the hypothalamic PVZ increased their firing during this time period (first group in the second figure). These neurons were causally implicated: inhibition increased fainting duration while excitation increased arousal.
Hi everyone!
The BrainGlobe Initiative exists to facilitate the development of interoperable Python-based tools for computational neuroanatomy, particularly in model organisms.
For more details please see https://brainglobe.info or chat with us at https://brainglobe.zulipchat.com.
@jonny In auto-pi-lot do you ever run into a situation where a zmq request is not replied to? and things get stuck? I took a look in node.py
and couldn’t tell if you do some time of timeout and message handling.
I’m asking because I’m thinking of re-writing part of our infrastructure to use REQ/REP zmq calls (which are now local function calls. this would be the first step in moving away from Matlab)..
Closing application date coming soon (Oct 30th) for this 3-year #Postdoc position in the lab of @katejjeffery, now in Glasgow!
“on the neural processing of space and direction in freely behaving rodents”
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12804781/research-associate/
Deadline is Nov 20!!
QT: https://neuromatch.social/@SWC_Neuro/111130768756348119
Surprisingly, the block prior was represented by few neurons in very few regions. To investigate this further, we devoted a whole companion paper to it, where additional analyses discovered widespread representations of the prior. (7/8)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.04.547684v1
We are excited to present a Brain-Wide Map of neural activity during a complex decision-making behavior, a product of the monumental effort of 22 labs: 547 Neuropixels recordings in 267 brain regions from 115 mice collected in 11 labs 🐭 (1/8)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.04.547681v2
#neuroscience
🚨We have an open position for a research assistant in systems #neuroscience! Please, check the attachment for details. Reposts are welcome 🙂