Postdoc Fellowship, 3-photon imaging of neural circuits in V1
 Society for Neuroscience | |
 United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis | |
 Nov 14, 2025 | |
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Postdoc Fellowship, 3-photon imaging of neural circuits in V1
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The Kara Lab (karalab.org) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow to study the laminar functional architecture of the visual cortex using ultra-wide-field three-photon imaging. Supported by a new NIH R01 (NS140244), this 5 year project aims to map spiking and synaptic activity across cortical layers and link these distinct neural patterns to hemodynamic and fMRI signals. The lab's prior three-photon imaging papers have focused on both technology innovation (e.g., Scientific Reports 2020; Neurophotonics 2021; Nature Methods 2023) and biological discovery (e.g., NeuroImage 2022), as have earlier two-photon publications (Nature Methods 2012; Nature 2016).The Kara Lab is based in the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), an internationally recognized hub for optical and fMRI innovation. The Kara lab has several customized three-photon microscopes, including one capable of imaging very large fields (up to 5 O 5 mm) and has two full-time optical engineers who work alongside neuroscience students, technicians and fellows. Please email (pkara@umn.edu) a curriculum vitae, the names of two references, and a brief statement of your overlapping research interests with the Kara lab. Company
The University of Minnesota faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 29 Nobel Prizes in a variety of fields including physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry. The University of Minnesota is one of America's Public Ivy universities, which refers to top public universities in the United States capable of providing a collegiate experience comparable with the Ivy League. The Twin Cities campus has the sixth largest student body in the United States, with 54,890 students in 2023-24. The Kara and Zimmerman labs are part of the Medical Discovery Team (MDT) in Optical Imaging and Brain Science and the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR). This MDT is a multi-disciplinary effort focused on mapping the detailed neural circuits that underlie sensation, perception and complex behaviors. State-of-the-art optical imaging and optical stimulation techniques that provide sub-micron spatial resolution are used in experimental model systems of health, injury and disease. Collectively, the approaches and instrumentation developed in CMRR constitute some of the most important tools used today to study system level organ function and physiology for basic and translational research and are increasingly applied worldwide. The CMRR is currently at the forefront of the Human Connectome project and has among the highest field strength magnets in the world. | |