From owner-celegans@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Wed Aug 16 20:44:38 2000 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5240617AB4; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:44:37 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 29E6317AB8; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:44:36 +0100 (BST) To: celegans@net.bio.net Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 19:12:40 +0100 From: shawn@lox.uoregon.edu (Shawn Lockery) Subject: POSTDOCTORAL OPPORTUNITY Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Message-Id: <20000816194436.29E6317AB8@mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> Sender: owner-celegans@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk POSTDOCTORAL POSITION available immediately to study the neuronal basis of behavior via neural network models of chemotaxis in the nematode worm C. elegans. Realistic computer models of the chemotaxis network, constrained by anatomical and electrophysiological data, will be optimized by neural network training algorithms to reproduce chemotaxis behavior of real worms. Models will be tested by comparing the effects of killing the same neurons in the model and biological networks. Previous training in modeling, electrophysiology, applied mathematics, or physics helpful. Please contact: Dr. S.R. Lockery (shawn@lox.uoregon.edu), Institute of Neuroscience, 1254 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403. The University of Oregon is an AA/EO institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with ADA" --- .