The University of Lethbridge is a world class research facility that has the only Neuroscience Department in Canada, including some of the top researchers in the area. Bruce McNaughton received the $20 million Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Polaris Award on October 3rd, 2008. The award is the largest of its kind, and will support Lethbridge Brain Dynamics (LBD) for 10 years.

Lethbridge Brain Dynamics offers opportunity to those interested in advancing research in the area of Neuroscience. It is a goal to make the group larger and more dynamic. Presently, our members are from Georgia, Germany, Mexico, China, Japan, the United States, Venezuela, Poland, Croatia, France, Ireland and Canada. The group also contains those with backgrounds in Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Biology, Image Processing, Physics, Marketing and Programming. Please contact a principal investigator or view our opportunities page for more information.

Events


February 7, 2012
Presentation by Dr. Maurice Needham
Title: Investigation of the effects of dopamine on the individual cell and network

January 31, 2012
Presentation by Dr. Masami Tatsuno
Title: Reactivation of multiple assemblies in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex

January 24, 2012
Presentation by Dr. Edgar Bermudez
Title: A study of cortical sensory coding - Evoked activity patterns influence subsequent spontaneous activity

January 24, 2012
Presentation by Karim Ali
Title: Detecting Cell Assemblies using Principal Component Analysis

iCORE Project

New Project: iCORE project on computational neuroscience is beginning in February, 2010, and will be a three year project. In brief, the project aim is to develop an information-geometric (IG) analysis for multi-neuronal data and a computational model for motor learning. Independent study students at the University are welcome to be a part of the project. Anyone who is interested please email Masami Tatsumo for further information.

Opportunities

The University of Lethbridge has established an exciting new program in Systems and Computational Neuroscience that focuses on studying brain dynamics. The offered salaries are competitive with NIH standards for postdoctoral and graduate trainees.

Our world-class training programs and facilities provide an excellent and unique learning environment for the new and experienced. The Brain Dynamics group is highly collaborative and encourages multidisciplinary approaches to study how large populations of neurons interact and control behavior. Particular research strengths of our group are in the areas of learning and memory, decision making, information coding and related diseases such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, addiction and stroke.

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