The Biomedical Image Informatics Groupat the VRVis Forschungs-GmbH in Vienna, Austria, tackles biomedical image informatics challenges in a friendly and inspiring atmosphere by (pre-)processing, analyzing and visualizing large amounts of image data from medicine and biotechnology.
Currently, we are looking for support from a student (f/m/d) who would like to give her/his master’s thesis an application driven focus with the following topic:
Interfaces and Visualization for Fruit Fly Larvae Brains
Neuroscience is focused on understanding how the brain functions both structurally as well as functionally. This is accomplished by imaging brains using a variety of different methods including EM, confocal, LM, etc. The challenge is to identify neurons across these images to understand how the brain develops throughout an organism’s life.
The aim of this master’s thesis project is to develop interfaces and visualization to answer questions related to the connections and similarities between different anatomical structures of the fruit fly larvae brains. For example, how do neurons in the left and right hemisphere compare? Or, how does a particular neuron change as the organism grow? To answer these questions, we need effective interfaces and visualizations.
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What you will bring to the team
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Applications are always welcome!
Please contact Thomas Torsney-Weir to send in your application or to inquire about additional information.
We especially would like to encourage female students to apply!
Contact
Dr. Thomas Torsney-Weir
Torsney-weir(at)vrvis.at
VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH
Donau-City-Str. 11, 1220 Vienna, Austria
https://www.vrvis.at
Wissenschaftliche Leiterin | Head of Biomedical Image Informatics Group, Biomedical Image Informatics
buehler(at)vrvis.at +43 1 908 98 92 401Download this position announcement as PDF here.