Postdoc job: Zebrafish, Natural scenes, Thiele lab, Toronto

The Thiele Lab at the University of Toronto is recruiting a Postdoc for the Fall to work with an HFSP team (UC Berkeley, Univ of Maryland, and Univ of Tübingen) that is investigating population level neural activity and behavior in zebrafish and African cichlids evoked by natural underwater scenes. The project involves the design and deployment of an ROV equipped with a custom camera system for 360 video. Field work will be conducted in Zambia and West Bengal. Videos will then be used in the lab to assess behavioral and neural responses to captured natural scenes. We are looking for a candidate that has calcium imaging & behavior experience in addition to strong Python or MATLAB coding skills. Field experience is nonessential but a sense of adventure is. Those with an Engineering or Physics background will also be considered. We encourage applicants that are underrepresented in science to apply. If interested, please send a CV and the contact info for 3 references to: tod.thiele@utoronto.ca

Post written by T. Thiele. Minor edits by L. (e.g., correcting typos like “behaviour”)

Note to some people: You’re thinking of a different neuroscientist named Todd Thiele.