Pediatrics

The University of Florida Epilepsy Research Laboratory and McKnight Brain Institute, seeks Neuroscience and/or Biomedical Engineering Ph.D students for NIH-sponsored project  to participate in basic neuroscience and biomedical epilepsy research.

Students and faculty affiliated with our laboratory engage in a variety of scientific endeavors which have, as a primary goal, to understand the mechanisms of epilepsy, and to apply this knowledge toward developing new treatments and cures.

The student will have the opportunity to learn in vivo and in vitro electrophysiological methods, immunohistochemistry, neurocomputation data analysis, and instrumentation in humans and animal models  of epilepsy. Available projects include in vivo and in vitro neurophysiology, animal models, gene therapy, neural prosthesis closed-loop seizure prevention/detection research, and brain imaging.

The University of Florida Epilepsy Research Laboratory and McKnight Brain Institute, seeks Researcher for NIH-sponsored project using animal models of epilepsy to study brain dynamics of epileptic seizures. Candidates should have experience with in vivo and in vitro recordings, including EEG, slice physiology, and patch clamp recordings.

A second Postdoctoral position is position is available for an individual with a computational neuroscience, electrical engineering, and/or theoretical neuroscience applied background. Datasets that extract critical properties and behavioral information from the biology, adaptively model and process this information, and apply the results to effect changes in the biological systems will be exploited.

Please send a letter, curriculum vitae, and three references to:
Dr. Paul R. Carney, University of Florida, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, PO Box 100296, Gainesville, FL, 32610. e-mail: carnepr@peds.ufl.edu; telephone: 352-846-2187.

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