From jennifer.mangan at nyu.edu Tue Mar 10 15:06:29 2015 From: jennifer.mangan at nyu.edu (Jennifer Mangan) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:06:29 -0400 Subject: [CBIAnnounce] UC Davis Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Positions Available Message-ID: FYI: The University of California, Davis Translational Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab (www.carterlab.ucdavis.edu) is currently hiring for research assistant and post-doctoral fellow positions starting the spring/summer of 2015. They are looking to recruit individuals who have a background in psychology, neuroscience, or computer science and engineering, to work with healthy and psychiatrically ill participants using functional MRI and EEG. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: UC Davis Jobs 2015.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 149450 bytes Desc: not available URL: From pablo.velasco at nyu.edu Mon Mar 23 11:10:19 2015 From: pablo.velasco at nyu.edu (Pablo Velasco) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:10:19 -0400 Subject: [CBIAnnounce] Fwd: Next Biomedical Imaging Research Forum, Tuesday, March 24th, 11:00 AM with Dmitri "Mitya" Chklovskii References: <021E99996BF8514484ADF45F5D6AF9DB44256918@MSGWCDCPMB24.nyumc.org> Message-ID: <9BFA1626-FC9F-4651-9069-F8E4F70FECB9@nyu.edu> This talk might interest some of you. Best, -Pablo Begin forwarded message: > From: "Lazar, Mariana" > Subject: FW: Reminder: Next Biomedical Imaging Research Forum, Tuesday, March 24th, 11:00 AM with Dmitri "Mitya" Chklovskii > Date: March 23, 2015 10:36:17 AM EDT > To: "pablo.velasco at nyu.edu" > > > Hi Pablo, > > I thought this might be of interest for your group. Can you forward it to them? > Thank you, > Mariana > > > > The Department of Radiology invites you to a Research Seminar as part of the Radiology Research Forum and the Sackler Seminars in Biomedical Imaging (course BMSC-GA 4416) Tuesday, March 24th, at 11:00 AM. This will take place at 660 First Avenue, 4th floor large conference room. > > > > How do animals see motion? Insights from fly connectomics > > > > Dmitri ?Mitya? Chklovskii > > Simons Foundation > > > > Animal behaviour arises from computations in neuronal circuits, but our understanding of these computations has been frustrated by the lack of detailed synaptic connection maps, or connectomes. For example, despite intensive investigations over half a century, the neuronal implementation of local motion detection in the visual system remains elusive. By developing a semi-automated pipeline using electron microscopy we were able to reconstruct the biggest connectome to-date within the Drosophila visual system and identify neurons and synapses comprising the motion detection circuit motif. Electrophysiological recordings from the identified neurons have confirmed our predictions. More recently, a similar motif has been identified in the vertebrate retina suggesting that the principles of neural computation are shared across species. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: