Postdoc Opportunity
University of Nevada, Reno
Contact: fvanbreugel@unr.edu
What information do flying insects gain when making rapid turns? Which neural circuits control these turns? The van Breugel lab seeks a postdoc to help answer these questions through an NIH BRAIN 5-year funded position.
Opportunities include using visual virtual reality, optogenetic perturbation experiments in freely flying flies, and the application of information theory.
Candidates should have experience in some of the following areas:
• Drosophila genetics/neuroscience
• Python programming
• Neuroethology
• Analysis of freely moving animals
Career development opportunities include collaborations with:
• Michael Dickinson (Caltech)
• Bing Brunton (UW)
This project builds on our recent Current Biology paper that uses optogenetics in freely flying flies to show that in the absence of wind they use a previously undescribed search behavior: sink and circle.
Watch the video below to learn more about my lab research, and see our free flight wind tunnel for doing optogenetics manipulations.