Professors Recruiting New Research Assistants

The Neurons and Circuits of the Somatosensory System

Email, Application through website here

Students pursuing grad school, 3.5+ GPA, Honors, familiarity with computers (coding is a plus or willingness to learn how to code)

Fall: Yes
Spring: Yes
Summer: Yes

Autophagy-Lysosomal Regulation in Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration

Aresty Summer Science or RA program

Rising sophomore honors students with GPA 4.0 and interested in graduate school.

Fall: Yes
Spring: Yes
Summer: Yes

Immunology

Email

I prefer students who can commit to one year of on-site research. Also, they should be a strong student academically and have taken, or intend to take, the lecture course in Immunology.

Fall: No
Spring: No
Summer: No

Molecular mechanisms of mammalian brain development, injury, and neurological disorders

Structural biology of neurodegenerative diseases by cryo-electron tomography

Email, Aresty Summer Science or RA program

Preference will be given to students interested in computational and structural biology; minimum GPA of 3.5

Fall: Maybe
Spring: Maybe
Summer: No

Infection and inflammation in the central nervous system

Interested undergraduate students should apply at danielslab.net/people

Strong preference given to students planning on PhD or MD/PhD study. Usually take new students as sophomores.

Fall: Maybe
Spring: Maybe
Summer: Maybe

Sensory signaling and ontogeny, as related to molecular mechanisms that regulate auditory function

Fundamentals of Neuro course

prefer honors students, completed Fundamentals of Neuroscience

Fall: Yes
Spring: Yes
Summer: Yes

Regulation of dendrite patterning, synaptogenesis, and neural circuitry, with relevance to CNS injury and schizophrenia

Email, Aresty Summer Science or RA program

Preference for honors students who will complete thesis, preference for those interested in graduate school, GPA of 3.5 or better, CBN, MBB, Genetics, Biology, or Biomedical Engineering major, work at least 15-20h/week, strong work ethic, commitment of 2-3 years, including summers

Fall: Maybe
Spring: Maybe
Summer: Maybe

Molecular cell biology of proteinases and parasitic protozoa

Email

Ideally starting out early (first year or sophomore)

Fall: No
Spring: No
Summer: No

Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) as Anti-Inflammatory Therapies

Email with CV

Interest in stem cell and/or clinical trials

Fall: No
Spring: Maybe
Summer: Maybe

Stem cells to study neurogenesis and neural disease

Email. REU Program (ex.) RISE, Aresty, NeuroSURP

Prior experience with cell culture. Students with R and/or Python experience may be considered for bioinformatics studies.

Fall: Maybe
Spring: Maybe
Summer: Maybe

Molecular mechanisms of vesicle trafficking underlying synaptic development and function

Email. REU Program (ex.) RISE, Aresty, NeuroSURP

Rising sophomores interested in graduate school, 3.5+ GPA, honors, willingness to work with mice, be able to commit 12-15hr/week during academic year and 40/week during summer.

Fall: Yes
Spring: Yes
Summer: Yes

Neural development, the role of transferrin in the development of the chick retina

Stem cells as a model of brain development and disease, stem cell regenerative medicine for neural repair

Email

Students interested in graduate school, GPA 3.5+. Please email to apply. I, together with postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in the lab will screen and make decision.

Fall: Maybe
Spring: Maybe
Summer: Maybe

mRNA turnover mechanism and genetic disorders

Molecular basis of spiral ganglion neuron regeneration

Email. REU Program (ex.) RISE, Aresty, NeuroSURP

Students interested in graduate school.

Fall: No
Spring: Maybe
Summer: Maybe

Stress response, cell aging

mail, Aresty Summer Science or RA program, students taught in class

Interested in protein structure/function and neurodegeneration; chem, biochem and computer background. Neat, and organized.

Fall: Yes
Spring: Maybe
Summer: Maybe

In vivo imaging of neural circuit plasticity

Email

Interest in learning experimental and computational skills in a systems/circuits neuroscience lab

Fall: Yes
Spring: Yes
Summer: Yes

Mammalian cardiovascular system

Email. REU Program (ex.) RISE, Aresty, NeuroSURP

Qualifications to be determined in one or two in-person interviews

Fall: No
Spring: No
Summer: Maybe

Cell adhesion molecules in development, regeneration after injury and synaptic plasticity

Mammalogy, vertebrate paleontology, functional morphology

Mouse models of human development and disease

Email

MD/PhD students or those wishing to attend graduate school. HIGHLY motivated pre-medical students will be considered

Fall: No
Spring: Maybe
Summer: Maybe

Molecular mechanisms of immune regulation and cancer pathogenesis

Email

Minimum GPA 3.5

Fall: Yes
Spring: Yes
Summer: Yes

Spinal cord injury

Email. REU Program (ex.) RISE, Aresty, NeuroSURP

I hold a student conference every Friday from 3-5 pm to talk to students about research in the Keck Center and during the summer (email for details)

Fall: Yes
Spring: Yes
Summer: Yes