Internships
Visual and olfactory systems
The Department of Sensory and Sensorimotor Systems is open for students for internships and theses in their labs.
Research foci are visual and olfactory functions in the human and animal brain and their elicited behavioral responses, and other related topics in brain science. Research methods include visual psychophysics, zebrafish behavior and neuroscience, computational modeling, data analysis, human event related potential measurements, fMRI and eye tracking.
Eligibility: depending on requirements of individual training program
Required skills: depending on project
Location
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen
Contact
Head of the department
Li Zhaoping
zhaoping.li.admin@tuebingen.mpg.de
Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying learning and memory
The computational neuroscience group researches on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying learning and memory using computational methods. Topics for Bachelor/Master theses are available and the lab is open for collaborations, offering expertise on episodic memory, spatial navigation, hippocampus, neural networks, and reinforcement learning. The main language of communication is English.
Skills to be learned: reinforcement learning, neural networks, parallel computing
Required skills: programming
Location
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Contact
Group leader
Sen Cheng
sen.cheng@rub.de
High performance computing (HPC)
The Simulation and Data Lab Neuroscience offers students an insight into the world of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and how HPC can be efficiently used for neuroscience research, from modelling and simulation to data analysis and neuroimaging. Visiting students should have some programming skills, e.g. in C, C++ or Python, to be able to use their visit for a (first) project with HPC and/or data resources.
Skills to be learned: high-performance computing, data analysis, visualisation technology for neuroscience
Required skills: programming
Location
Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Contact
Scientific coordination
Maren Frings
slns@fz-juelich.de
Master theses
Directional information in hippocampal place cells populations
Hippocampal place cells not only decode the current position but also the running direction of an animal. The interconnectedness between those codes is less explored but of fundamental importance for the understanding of hippocampal function in navigation and memory processes. This project will apply and refine analysis tools for extracellularly recorded spiking data obtained during free foraging. Students will be exposed to classic methods and literature on hippocampal in-vivo physiology and state-of-the art machine learning methods.
Eligibility: Student must be enrolled at University of Freiburg
Required skills: Experience in Python and statistical methods
Background: Neurobiology
Location
Bernstein Center Freiburg, University Freiburg
Contact
Bernstein Coordination Site
Janina Radny
j.radny@fz-juelich.de
Modeling in neurophysiology and optogenetics
Depending on background and interest: Modeling single neurons and neuronal networks in the thalamocortical system (simple and biophysical models); analysis of single neuron and network encoding of sensory/behavioral stimuli and interactions between neurons (data from large-scale silicon probe in vivo experiments with targeted optogenetic interventions); information theoretic analysis of neural data; identification of neuronal ensembles.
Student background: physics, applied mathematics, computer science, data science
Required skills: depending on project: linear algebra, differential equations, data visualization, Python
Location
University Heidelberg, Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology
Contact
Bernstein Coordination Site
Janina Radny
j.radny@fz-juelich.de
