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A couple of the labs that are part of FlyFizz have open positions.
Gwyneth Card's lab has two positions available for postdoctoral electrophysiologists to use cutting-edge techniques to crack the neural circuits that generate flexible behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster. The Card lab is a multi-disciplinary lab using several approaches to understand how the fly generates and chooses between different behaviors. Her lab uses patch-clamp electrophysiology and sophisticated high-throughput behavioral screens combined with genetic manipulations to identify neurons and neural circuits involved in the escape behaviors of flies. They also collaborate closely with other labs at Janelia (including our lab) who apply complementary techniques, such as imaging with optogenetic tools, multiunit extracellular electrophysiology and advanced genetics to understand circuits in Drosophila.
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To apply for a position, or if you would like to know more, please send her an email. Please include your curriculum vitae and research interests, and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to:unmigrated-wiki-markup
Gwyneth Card
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
19700 Helix Drive,
Ashburn, VA 20147
email: cardg\[at\]janelia.hhmi.org
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Over the past few years, we have developed tools to record the activity of genetically identified neurons in tethered Drosophila melanogaster during behavior in a virtual reality setup. We use a combination of walking and flying behavior, two-photon calcium imaging, whole-cell and loose patch clamp recording, multi-single-unit extracellular electrophysiology, genetic tools and computational analyses to understand circuit computations in a region of the insect brain called the central complex. Evidence from physiology and behavioral genetics studies suggests that this distinctively structured region of approximately one thousand stereotyped neurons is involved in visually mediated orienting, adaptive sensorimotor mapping, multisensory integration, and working memory, among other things. This motivates our choice of behaviors to investigate mechanistically on the rig.
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If you think you would enjoy working in such an atmosphere, or want to know more, send me an email. Please include your curriculum vitae and research interests, and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to:
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Janelia Farm Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
19700 Helix Drive,
Ashburn, VA 20147
email: vivek \ [at\] janelia.hhmi.org
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