Location:  Doug Crawford's lab at the York Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, Canada.   Positions will also include membership in and collaboration with the CIHR Group for Action and Perception.   

Projects: Fellows will  lead a project with appropriate independence / supervision within a collaborative research environment that encompasses visuomotor physiology, psychophysics, modeling, and fMRI.  Funding is currently available for post-docs projects  in the primate neurophysiology labs, in the following areas:  (1) Reference frames for visuomotor coding in cortical and subcortical structures like the superior colliculus (Klier et al. Nature Neuroscience, 2001) and the supplementary eye fields (Martinez-Trujillo et al. J. Neurophysiol. in press).  (2)  Cortical and Subcortical mechanisms of spatial updating of 3-D space (e.g., Medendorp et al. J. Neurosci. 2002).  (3) Neural Mechanisms of eye-head coordination (Crawford and Guitton J. Neurophysiol. 1997)  (4) Neural mechanisms of 3-D head posture (Klier et al. Science, 2002).   The current emphasis is on multi-unit recordings.  For more information see  http://www.yorku.ca/jdc/

Project Resources:  An newly expanded, integrated primate facility that includes animal housing, surgery, and 5 laboratory set-ups, each equipped with 3-D eye coil systems for head-free recordings, multi-unit recording systems (both plexon and alpha omega), and visual displays. Vestibular platform and arm movement recordings also available.   Strong surgical, technical, and programming support. Central office space in Centre for Vision Research. 

Regular Vision Seminar Series, laboratory meetings / journal clubs, social atmosphere, great city to live in 

Salary Support: Funding is gauranteed at or above CIHR scholarship levels for two or more years.

Start-time:  ASAP.

Qualifications.  Ph.D. in a neuroscience-related field.  Preference will be given to candidates with experience in recording and analysing single / multiple unit data in alert animals.  Skills in quantitative analysis, programming, eye movement recording, motor control, vision, cognitive neuroscience, and/or modelling would be an asset.
 
Contact:   Send CV, statement of background and interests, and names of 2 referees to: Doug Crawford, Canada Research Chair in Visuomotor Neuroscience, York Centre for Vision Research, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J-1P3;  jdc@yorku.ca