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<b style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Postdoctoral Fellow Position at the University of Washington<br>High-resolution retinal imaging and visual psychophysics</b><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:14.72px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.72px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The University of Washington’s Department of Ophthalmology invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow position in the lab of Ram Sabesan at the Vision Science Center.  The successful candidate will utilize existing adaptive optics retinal imaging systems to study neural processing in the early visual system of living humans and animal models. This full-time position as a <i>Senior Fellow</i> is on an annual, 12-month appointment. Support for a minimum period of 2 years is available.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:14.72px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.72px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:14.72px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.72px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The lab’s current focus is on the functional mechanisms by which signals from cone photoreceptors and their ensuing retinal pathways are integrated to mediate visual perception. Two recent technologies facilitate this study of light-driven neural activity<span> </span><i>in vivo.<span> </span></i>First, an adaptive optics camera allows one to visualize individual cones<span> </span><i>in vivo</i><span> </span>and classify them on the basis of their spectral type. Coupled together with a high speed retinal tracker to control eye movements, this instrument allows one to conduct visual psychophysics by targeting stimuli on the living retina at a cellular scale. The second technology is phase-resolved optical coherence tomography, a tool akin to classical interferometry that allows one to monitor the minute biophysical changes (nanometer/millisecond resolution) in cones accompanying phototransduction. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:14.72px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.72px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:14.72px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:14.72px">The scope of ongoing projects range from optical engineering (optical design and assembly, hardware/software for image acquisition/processing/analysi<wbr>s/interpretation) to scientific inquiry (human spectral cone composition, retinal circuits underlying spatial and color vision, retinal optophysiology). </span><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The candidate will be encouraged to pursue independent interests in addition to participating in ongoing research projects and collaborations. They will become part of a strong and diverse vision science community at the University of Washington and have the opportunity to closely interact with labs studying the visual system using genetic, electrophysiological, behavioral, pharmacological and computational approaches.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:14.72px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">     </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:14.72px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.72px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Requirements:<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-m_-7424334850520400857gmail-m_-6372686047110429954gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:14.72px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14.72px;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="line-height:14.72px;f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