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Title: RESEARCH FELLOW Employee Type: Fellows Department: LSUNO Anatomy Campus Location: ANATOMY Job Summary/Basic Functions The Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy seeks a postdoctoral fellow with a PhD in Physics, Engineering, Computational Neuroscience or a related field This individual will collaborate with Dr. Carmen Canavier on computationally intensive projects. One project involves modeling the local circuit in the medial entorhinal cortex with respect to theta nested gamma and grid cell activity and the other involves modeling the local circuit in hippocampal area CA1 with respect to cholinergic modulation and place field formation.
Required qualifications include excellent Python programming skills, proficiency in working in the Linux Environment, and proficiency in utilizing HPC clusters and SLURM scripts. Experience with Neuron and/or Netpyne Software Packages, large scale neural simulations and/or bifurcation analysis of the genesis of oscillations is preferred but not required. Minimum Qualifications Required Education: PhD Required Field of Study: Physics, Engineering, Computational Neuroscience or a related field