Initially, students shadow more experienced lab members and assist with behavioral neuroscience experiments. As students become more skilled, they take on more responsibility and may run experiments of their own. This can involve activities such as measurement of feeding and/or drinking behavior, use of various behavioral testing equipment, brain or gastrointestinal surgery, brain sectioning and histology, and measurement of hormones, mRNA, or protein in blood or tissue samples. See here for more information and to fill out an application to work with us:
Program
Neuroscience
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Research Area
Our laboratory uses rat and mouse models to investigate the diverse factors that control food intake and body weight.