I train students who have been accepted into the the Neuroscience Grad program and MCB Grad program. If you are someone that enjoys highly collaborative projects and has an interest in the genetic and molecular basis of synapses and their function you might be interested in the projects listed below:
Kate O’Connor-Giles and I are interested in recruiting a student that might be interested in working on a collaborative project between our labs. We are currently developing a model of poly-stimulant use (alcohol, nicotine and methamphetamine) and are interested in identifying gene regulatory networks in the mushroom body that are important in synapse formation and plasticity. There are lots of different components to this project so if you are interested in behavior, in vivo imaging in behaving animals, developing new transgenic animals or computational biology methods there are a number of different directions the project can go.
On a similar note, Alex Fleischmann and I are also interested in recruiting a student that might be interested in working on a collaborative project between our labs. We are interested in identifying gene regulatory networks in the fly mushroom body (in my lab) and mouse piriform cortex (in Alex’s lab) that are important in reward memory, and comparing that to gene regulatory networks that are important for synapse formation during development. Like the above mentioned project, there are lots of different components to this project so if you are interested in behavior, in vivo imaging in behaving animals, and computational biology methods there are a number of different directions the project can go.
Both projects require someone interested in bridging different subjects (and labs) and that enjoys bringing people and ideas together and working independently, but within a collaborative environment.
Please feel free to reach out to Karla with questions!
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