Systems neuroscience and behavior

Students will participate in a range of activities generally related to systems neuroscience and behavior.  Specific projects will be developed in consultation with the PI and other lab members.  Students will be mentored by the PI and other lab members.  Students should plan to participate in lab meetings and be available to help other lab members with research and organizational activities.

Projects for new participants may include literature review, synthesis, and presentation on topics relevant to ongoing research in the lab, help building equipment for new experiments, help with experimental design and planning, and help with data analysis.  More advanced students (who have been in the lab for longer) may take on greater research responsibilities including assisting with or independently conducting behavioral, physiological, and anatomical projects.

Topics that may be investigated include the neural basis of cognition (such as memory), emotion (such as stress), motivation (for natural rewards or drugs such as alcohol), and other aspects of behavior.  We have an interest in integrating these topics with clinical/translational topics such as psychiatric and neurological disease.  We are also interested in computational analysis of neural activity and behavior, neural development, and comparative neuroscience.